As the National Hockey League season begins, NHL officials and medical professionals are focusing on the potential for serious head and brain injuries in hockey players. In a recent study, researchers found that direct hits by other players, head shots with parts of...
As drivers get older, disease, disability, and the natural progression of aging may severely limit their ability to drive. This is not always the case - often, older drivers remain fully capable of operating a motor vehicle competently and safely. But sometimes...
Often, a dog bite injury involves a long-time family pet and occurs, unexpectedly, in the most normal of circumstances. This is one of those stories. Recently, a mother asked her teenage son to help clean the family dog after he came inside with mud on his paws. The...
Last year, then-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill that required skiers and snowboarders under the age of 18 to wear a helmet on the slopes. Now, in what feels like a case of déjà vu, Governor Jerry Brown has again vetoed a ski helmet bill....
A California high school football player is claiming that his coach ordered his teammates to purposely injure him as punishment for missing a day of practice. The sixteen-year-old says that he suffered a partially collapsed lung and a concussion, which is a form of...
A group of friends' fun Labor Day weekend outing on the Colorado River turned tragic when a San Diego man fell over the side of the boat and drowned, according to officials from the San Bernardino's Sheriff's Department. After police searched for the man for several...
After a man crashed into a parked vehicle early Monday morning, injuring his wife and infant, he did something that very few husbands and fathers would do: he fled the scene of the crash, leaving his family in the car, injured and bleeding. Now, the man faces criminal...
A dog bite can happen at any time. Along with the dog bite injury, the incident usually also carries the possibility of contracting rabies disease.The rabies virus is typically transmitted in the saliva of an infected animal. Close contact with the infected animal,...
