Columbus Personal Injury & Wrongful Death Legal Blog

As a new mother, you will want to protect your child from harm at all costs. If you have already noticed that your baby is not developing or progressing as they should, you will want to know why, so that their issues can be dealt with as quickly as possible. One of the most common causes of delayed physical and mental development among young children is, sadly, preventable birth injuries.

Birth injuries count as any type of injury that occurs during the process of delivering a child. In most cases of birth injuries, the baby was completely healthy in the womb. Complications arising during delivery can cause the child to suffer from life-altering injuries, and, in many cases, these situations occur due to midwife negligence. It is important that you understand the common reasons why birth injuries occur, and how midwife negligence can play a role.

There were more than 200,000 injuries caused by drunk drivers in Ohio and throughout the country in 2017. According to the president of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), it is imperative that the automotive industry do whatever it can to make sure that drunk drivers cannot operate motor vehicles. A combination of state and federal funds is currently helping to spur the development of the Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety.

It can detect alcohol in a person's breath and won't allow the car to start if an individual has a blood alcohol content of .08% or higher. A touch-based system could be available at a later date according to an individual who is helping to run the program. The breath-based system is currently being tested and could be available for wider release at some point in 2020.

Researchers have found that over 400 medical practices, all of them very common, are in fact ineffective. The results of the study, which were published in eLife, are intended to help clinicians and researchers in Ohio and across the U.S. care for patients more effectively and more economically.

Researchers from the Oregon Health & Science University discovered these medical reversals after reviewing 3,000 articles involving randomized controlled trials. These articles had all been published in the past 15 years by journals like the Lancet and the Journal of the American Medical Association. In those 3,000 articles were 296 instances of medical reversals.

Many people feel surprised when they learn that their loved one had an opioid addiction. Most people who struggle with an addiction take great pains to hide it from the people whom they love the most. That can leave you with more questions than answers after the unexpected and tragic loss of someone you love due to an opioid overdose.

In that scenario, you may find yourself wanting to take legal action against the people involved in supplying your loved one with deadly drugs. You may find yourself wondering whether the best strategy involves filing a medical malpractice lawsuit against a doctor or perhaps seeking compensation for a wrongful death.