It's been Christmas all year round for folks who work in the Texas oil and gas industry. Between the Eagle Ford Shale and Barnett Shale, and due to advancements made in hydraulic fracturing technology, drilling companies, employees and related businesses (like...
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Year: 2012
Do DWI-specific courts reduce drunk-driving accidents?
Texas is one of a handful of states, according to Abby Rogers with Business Insider, with DWI-specific courts. Supporters of such courts say that they're good for rehabilitation. Rogers points to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data showing a drop of...
Safe-driving tips for Christmas Eve
As we wrote last week, Allstate Insurance says that Christmas Eve is the worst day for the number of auto accident claims in Texas. It spikes at 22 percent on December 24, making it the worst day among five for Texas drivers. In an effort to help Texans avoid a car...
Allstate: Christmas Eve is the worst day for number of auto accidents
According to auto insurance company Allstate, four of the five days for the highest number of car accident claims in Texas take place in the month of December. One of them is Christmas Eve. The owner of an Allstate agency in San Antonio, Texas, speculated as to why...
No antidote for bleeding makes Pradaxa a ‘truly defective drug’
As Jef Feeley and Margaret Cronin Fisk report for Bloomberg Businessweek, hundreds of patients who suffered bad side effects from taking Pradaxa to prevent a stroke have sued drug maker Boehringer Ingelheim, which has made more than $1 billion in sales off Pradaxa...
Tanker truck veers off road, crashes into lake
Veering off the road is generally a sign that something went wrong behind the wheel. According to CBS Dallas-Fort Worth, the driver of a tanker truck went off the road and into a lake off Highway 175 in Texas at one in the morning. Accident investigators "don't know...
Serious Health Concerns Associated With Vaginal Mesh
Over a lifetime, up to half of all women will develop some degree of pelvic organ prolapse, or POP, due to weakened vaginal muscles. The condition, which can allow pelvic organs to sag, is usually mild; only about one in 50 women will experience troublesome symptoms....
NTSB: Improper Truck Maintenance Cause of Fatal Accident
Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) have found that an improperly maintained truck - bad brakes - was the likely cause of a fatal accident involving a collision between a truck and a passing train. This accident happened out-of-state,...
The pit bull as ‘dangerous weapon’
Prosecutors have offered the 28-year-old dog owner stark options: a plea deal that would have him pleading guilty to the felony of having a dangerous animal that caused serious injury, or face the more serious felony of assault with a dangerous weapon, among other...
Can You Trust Studies About Drug Safety Associated with Drug Makers?
Watch out for studies testing the safety of pharmaceutical drugs when the studies are associated with the drug maker. In Sue Hughes's report on TheHeart.org, a study conducted by Trinity Partners Consultants found that Pradaxa was better than warfarin when it came to...