According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, over 1,300 children under 15 years old were killed and almost 184,000 were injured in motor vehicle accidents in 2005. Properly using child safety restraints, including car and booster seats, can help protect children from injuries and death in traffic accidents.

What started as a California wrongful death lawsuit after a tragic car accident may result in greater protections for plaintiffs who pursue claims under state tort laws.

Distracted driving is the umbrella term used to describe a situation in which a driver's attention is diverted from the road and the vehicle. Although cell phone use is a primary cause of distracted driving, there are plenty of other ways for it to occur: talking to other passengers in the car, changing radio stations, using a GPS, extracting maps from the glove compartment - the list goes on.

Patients assume that when their doctors prescribe medications, the physicians know all the potential side effects and are reasonably certain the drugs are safe. However, this is not always true according to an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine by oncologist Dr. Ethan Basch.

It is often said among hospital workers that the most likely place to pick up an illness is the very place people go when ill: the hospital. For many years, health care policy makers have conducted studies and developed protocols to decrease the number of hospital-acquired infections (HAIs). A HAI, or nosocomial infection, is just that: an infection that is acquired at the hospital.