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With COVID-19 pandemic limitations changing in many communities across the country, the number of students returning to in-person learning is increasing. In fact, the incoming presidential administration has announced that it intends to take steps to permit nearly 100% in-person learning for nearly all elementary, middle, and high school students in the United States within the first 100 days of the start of the new presidency. School busses will be returning to the streets in larger numbers. Consequently, there will…

A construction worker was killed Friday at a staging area for the Enbridge Oil Pipeline. The construction accident occurred in Hill City, Minnesota. Enbridge, a petroleum company headquartered in Calgary, has thus far refused to release any information about the underlying cause of the accident. In addition, Enbridge has declined to disclose any information about the victim of the Minnesota oil pipeline accident. One of the visible steps taken by Enbridge since the Minnesota oil pipeline accident that took the…

Emergency Rooms Frequently Mismanage Potential Major Adverse Cardiac Events (MACE) Each year hundreds of thousands of men and women visit hospitals for emergency treatment of chest pain. In the majority of such cases, no evidence of heart trouble is found and the patient is discharged home with instructions to follow up with their health care provider or to return to the hospital if their symptoms occur again. In order to reduce the number of patients who will later suffer a…

“Textured-Surface” Breast Implants and Cancer Each year thousands of women undergo breast implant surgery for a variety of reasons, with many such implant operations performed following mastectomy for breast cancer. In these operations, a pouch roughly the shape of the patient’s natural breast and containing saline, silicon or some other substance is inserted into the cavity left by the removed breast tissue and the remaining natural skin is over-sewn to recreate the normal size and shape of the breast. Regardless…

Three Dead, One Injured Following Stairwell Collapse in Houston Three workers are dead and one additional worker is reported to have been injured after a partially-completed stairwell collapsed at a west Houston construction site early Monday afternoon. The cause of the collapse is unknown at this time as the building is considered too unstable to be safely entered until remaining portions can be reinforced and stabilized. According to the Harris County Fire Department, the initial rescue call came in at…