Truck safety advocates are rallying against proposals to allow longer and heavier tractor-trailers on American highways. A bipartisan group of House members recently passed an amendment to H.R. 7 that will cut restrict the ability of trucking companies to fill…

There are many ways a nursing home resident can come to the end of his or her life while in the care of a facility. Murder is rarely the case, but an example in Illinois shows that two men with…

April is Alcohol Awareness Month across the United States and while the statistics indicate that the number of deaths from drinking and driving have gone down slightly, they are still high enough to be a concern. Drunk driving deaths have…

Because many congenital heart disease cases are overlooked in the prenatal stages or even in early infancy, a government agency has begun recommending screening newborns for critical congenital cyanotic heart disease (CCCHD). The Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in…

Campaigns to warn drivers to be more cautious around commercial vehicles are paying off as 2011 data show traffic fatalities are down in some demographics. The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance has been leading campaigns since 2007 to improve driver behavior…

A new study in the journal Health Affairs shows that some health care providers are not always completely honest about medical errors, the severity of a prognosis or their relationships with drug companies. The study involved surveying about 1,800 physicians…

Big rigs will make a big move for highway safety now that a new federal rule is in place to revise the amount of time truck drivers can spend on the road. The new hours-of-service (HOS) rule is aimed at…

Carl Bonner Sr. went to the Granite Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center in January of 2010 with a brain injury that caused him to lose his balance and fall. When he died eight months later of head injuries he sustained…