What options are available to those struggling with medical expenses? Financial problems can impact even the best planners when they least expect it. Unforeseen events arise and significantly drain any resources available. Because of the most recent recession, many people do not have enough savings to overcome any of these unplanned emergencies. When an individual experiences health problems, this can often lead to costly medical care and treatments. While many people have health insurance to defray some of the costs that arise, it may not cover all of the expenses ...

The Jones Act protects seamen Admiralty law has traditionally considered seamen "wards of admiralty," and deserving of the protection of the law. As such, admiralty law imposed an obligation on vessel owners to care for seamen who sustained injuries while working. If a seaman was injured during a voyage, the ship owner had to provide transportation and wages until the end of the trip. Additionally, the owner had to provide "maintenance and cure" to the seaman after the voyage ended -- payment for medical care and a small stipend for living expenses ...

Report shows credit card debt rising across the US Earlier this year, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York issued a report regarding our collective debt as a nation. According to the report, in the third quarter of 2012, our overall debt in the U.S. fell by $74 billion. During the same period, though, the amount of credit card debt across the country actually increased by $2 billion. According to TransUnion, a credit bureau, from July through September 2012, the average credit card holder in the United States had $4,996 in credit card debt. The credit bureau has predicted ...

Pedestrian accidents still a problem in New York City New York City is filled with pedestrians and bicyclists. Residents rely upon alternate means of transportation simply because it makes getting around that much easier when traffic is backed up. Even though the city has made improvements to pedestrian and cyclist safety, many of these people know that they need to remain alert to avoid potential bicycle or pedestrian accidents. Those pedestrians or cyclists involved in collisions with motor vehicles will often be the ones absorbing the full impact of the crash, ...

The top ten speeding ticket cities in Dallas County Dallas County has seen a significant amount of growth over the past decade. According to United States Census numbers, the region is home to over six million people. Many businesses and industries have headquarters within one of the cities located in the county, and the area is also very popular with tourists. With so many people living and working in the region, area highways are often filled with motorists headed to their destinations. More traffic means more accidents, and more accidents means that law enforcement ...

Speeding is one of the prevailing factors in traffic crashes and serious car accidents, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Serious car accidents affect victims, the perpetrators, and society for years after the event; our Miami car accident attorneys have helped clients who suffered from head trauma, spinal cord injuries, amputations, and other life-altering effects gain justice, but the damage done in split seconds is often irreversible. In 2005, the cost of crash-related deaths and injuries among drivers and passengers was $70 billion, ...

In 2010, Johnson & Johnson recalled its DePuy metal-on-metal Articular Surface Replacement (ASR) hip joint. The National Joint Registry of England and Wales had revealed that that the hip joint replacement system was failing at a much higher rate than other joint replacement options. According to the British joint registry, the DePuy hip replacement system was predicted to fail in at least one-third of all patients who received it, often requiring painful revisionary surgery. Johnson & Johnson challenged the National Joint Registry's assertion that its ASR hip ...

Many Americans are unaware of the history and importance of the wrongful death cause of action. In this entry of the West Virginia Personal Injury Law blog, you can find out the answer to eight key questions regarding wrongful death in the event that you are so unfortunate as to lose a loved one as a result of one. 1. What is a wrongful death? Historically, under American and English common law, there was no claim for wrongful death. If a person was killed by the wrongful act of another, their claims died with them. This created the perverse result that it was better, ...

With the Atlanta event season on the horizon, Atlanta event rentals company, Event Rentals Unlimited, encourages you to visit its Atlanta showroom in order to plan your special event. Event Rentals offers its clients a wide range of available event rentals, including everything from catering equipment to tables and chairs, to make their event unforgettable. Your special event's success hangs in a delicate balance based entirely on whether you have the event supplies, equipment, decorations and refreshments your guests expect. Although you may choose to hire an event ...

Atlanta catering, decor and floral company, A Legendary Event, specializes in special events at a number of Atlanta's unique locations, including 3109 Piedmont Estate and Gardens. This renovated antebellum estate has three acres of beautiful indoor and outdoor spaces, with manicured gardens. It has a ballroom that can accommodate 180 seated guests or a cocktail reception for up to 400 people. If you are planning to hold your event at this elegant location, book as soon as possible, particularly if it is a Saturday event, because those days fill up the most quickly. The ...

As winter continues, it is best to prune back your plants, shrubs and trees for better foliage and spread come the spring weather. Yellow Ribbon Tree Experts, an Atlanta tree trimming team, servicing the Atlanta area, suggests that pruning your foliage will help their growth after the dormant winter months. For all perennials, it is advisable to trim back limbs and remove dead growth so the plant or tree can have good air movement during the winter and help keep fungal diseases at bay. Many trees, like fruit trees, require a balance of different ages and sizes of branches ...

BlueBird Strategies, an advanced demand generation firm that helps businesses quickly achieve ROI from their marketing automation platforms, today announced the launch of their newly redesigned website. The new website features a modest and clean user-friendly design which will encourage increased user interaction and accessibility. With smoother navigation, better organization of services and offerings, improved SEO, and optimization for users on mobile and tablet devices, this new website will better serve the needs of all it's visitors. The launch of the new website ...

The small Mediterranean island was hurt badly by the Greek debt crisis and needs a bailout of staggering proportions -- 10 billion euros -- to avoid bankruptcy. Earlier this week, the country shocked the world by announcing that part of the bailout plan would include taxing the deposits of ordinary citizens in an effort to raise the money. That plan was later voted down by the Cypriot parliament, which put more pressure on Cyprus to raise a 5.8-billion euro shortfall A plan to appeal to Russia, whose tycoons have stashed an estimated $31 billion in the country due to its ...

At 7 months of age, children who are later diagnosed with autism take a split second longer to shift their gaze during a task measuring eye movements and visual attention than do typically developing infants of the same age, according to researchers supported by the National Institutes of Health. The difference between the groups' test results was 25 to 50 milliseconds on average, the researchers found, too brief to be detected in social interactions with an infant. However, they showed that this measurable delay could be accounted for by differences in the structure ...

RENO, Nev. – A new mechanism for guiding the growth of nerves that involves cell-death machinery has been found by scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno that may bring advances in neurological medicine and research. The team obtained the evidence in studies of fruit flies and reported their discovery in an article published in the prestigious science publication Cell Reports. "Although the fly is a relatively simple organism, almost every gene identified in this species appears to be carrying out similar functions in humans," said Thomas Kidd, associate professor ...

About 1 in 4 deaths in the United States are due to cancer, but primary tumors are rarely fatal. Instead, it's when tumors metastasize that cancer becomes so deadly. To help patients and physicians make treatment decisions, teams of researchers have been working on various methods to detect cancer's spread – via the bloodstream – before secondary tumors develop. Now, one team reports a nearly perfect method for separating breast cancer cells from blood. They describe their proof-of-concept device in a paper accepted for publication in Biomicrofluidics, a journal of the ...

A drug widely used to treat Parkinson's Disease can help to reverse age-related impairments in decision making in some older people, a study from researchers at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging has shown. The study, published today in the journal Nature Neuroscience, also describes changes in the patterns of brain activity of adults in their seventies that help to explain why they are worse at making decisions than younger people. Poorer decision-making is a natural part of the ageing process that stems from a decline in our brains' ability to learn from ...

This press release is available in Spanish. The astronomers in the UPV/EHU's Planetary Science Group have published, on-line in the prestigious journal Nature Geoscience, a study of the atmospheric vortex of the south pole of Venus, a huge whirlwind the size of Europe. In the atmosphere there are two main cloud layers separated by a distance of 20km. The UPV/EHU astronomers have been closely monitoring the movement of the vortex on both levels, and have been able to confirm the erratic nature of this movement. "We knew it was a long-term vortex; we also knew that it ...

Taking their inspiration from Nature, scientists at the University of New South Wales have developed a new method for carrying out chemical reduction – an industrial process used to produce fuels and chemicals that are vital for modern society. Their catalyst-based approach has the big advantages that it uses cheap, replenishable reagents and it works well at room temperature and in air – so much so, it can even be carried out safely in a teacup. The research, by a team led by Associate Professor Stephen Colbran, of the UNSW School of Chemistry, has been published as ...

March 25, 2013, Shenzhen, China - In a collaborative study published online in Nature Genetics, researchers from Cardiff University, BGI, International Wildlife Consultants, Ltd., and Abu Dhabi Falcon Hospital, have completed the genome sequencing and analysis of two iconic falcons, the peregrine (Falco peregrinus) and saker (Falco cherrug). The work provides an invaluable resource for the deep understanding of the adaptive evolution in raptors and the genetic basis of their wide distribution. Peregrine and saker falcons are widespread, and their unique morphological, ...

Exploring the cause of sudden unexplained death in epilepsy Dravet syndrome (DS) is a form of infantile-onset, treatment-resistant epilepsy that is caused by a mutation in the gene encoding a voltage-gated sodium channel, SCN1A. DS patients have a 30-fold increased risk of dying from sudden unexplained death in epilepsy (SUDEP) compared to patients with other forms of pediatric-onset epilepsy. In this issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Franck Kalume and colleagues at the University of Washington characterized SUDEP in a mouse model of DS. Observation using ...

Dravet syndrome (DS) is a form of infantile-onset, treatment-resistant epilepsy that is caused by a mutation in the gene encoding a voltage-gated sodium channel, SCN1A. DS patients have a 30-fold increased risk of dying from sudden unexplained death in epilepsy (SUDEP) compared to patients with other forms of pediatric-onset epilepsy. In this issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Franck Kalume and colleagues at the University of Washington characterized SUDEP in a mouse model of DS. Observation using video, electroencephalography, and electrocardiography revealed ...

Reverse cholesterol transport is a process in which accumulated cholesterol is removed from tissues, including the artery wall, and transported back to the liver for excretion. Little is known about how cholesterol is removed from peripheral tissues, but a better understanding of these mechanisms could help in the development of therapies that treat atherosclerosis and other cholesterol-related disorders. In this issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, researchers led by Gwendalyn Randolph and colleagues at Washington University in St. Louis examined the role of ...

HEIDELBERG, 25 March 2013 – Researchers have used whole genome sequencing to reveal if drug-resistant bacteria are transmitted from animals to humans in two disease outbreaks that occurred on different farms in Denmark. The results, which are published today in EMBO Molecular Medicine, confirm animal-to-human transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a disease-causing bacterium that carries the recently described mecC gene. The mecC gene is responsible for resistance to the penicillin-like antibiotic methicillin. Drug-resistant bacterial infections ...

SAN DIEGO - The same sort of mathematical model used to predict which websites people are most apt to visit is now showing promise in helping map how lung cancer spreads in the human body, according to a new study published in the journal Cancer Research. A team of researchers used an algorithm similar to the Google PageRank and to the Viterbi Algorithm for digital communication to analyze the spread patterns of lung cancer. The team includes experts from the University of Southern California (USC), Scripps Clinic, The Scripps Research Institute, University of California, ...