There are currently over 1.4 million Americans living in nursing homes. When people enter a nursing home, they expect to receive the utmost quality care. However, if for any reason that care is anything less than adequate, there are not reasonable safeguards in place to hold nursing homes truly accountable […]

Earlier this month, a federal court ruled on whether Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide is capable of causing non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma must be first determined before proceeding in a personal injury suit (Giglio v. Monsanto Co., 2016 BL 251362, S.D. Cal., No. 15-cv-2279, 8/2/16). The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California bifurcated […]

Studies show that growing up in poverty hurts young minds. A recent New York Times article chronicling these findings compares growing up in poverty to playing football without a helmet-everyday life causes social concussions. Brute force is not required to cause physical changes in the brain, rather these changes can […]

In Spring 2016, a report from the Veterans Administration (VA) Office of the Inspector General revealed that 21 of 38 VA medical facilities investigated were using improper scheduling for appointments. This is similar to a practice uncovered two years prior. In 2014, forty veterans died while waiting to be treated […]

On May 27th, the FDA released its much anticipated new nutritional labeling requirements. This will be the first time the FDA has revamped its nutritional labeling requirements since they were first created under the Nutritional Labeling and Education Act of 1990.  The new label will make a number of big […]