Spinal cord injuries result in damages that are often irreversible or require patients to spend a very long time in a hospital setting for rehabilitation. Existing technologies used to rehab patients suffering from spinal cord injury are often heavy and can not be used in a home setting. However a…
A NYPD school safety agent was arrested for sexually abusing a child within the confines of the 90th Precinct in Brooklyn. The police announced on Monday that 43 year old Jeanisidor Jean Baptiste was arrested in Brooklyn, NYC, for child sexual abuse. The arrest was the result of an internal…
A NYC pedestrian was fatally hit by a car in front of his house on Saturday evening. 50 year old Jose Barrera, a construction worker and father of 4 was killed by a car in front of his 6 year old daughter. Barrera was working 6 days a week and…
A tragic car accident resulted in 3 deaths and multiple injuries in New York City last Saturday night as a bunch of local teenagers gathered on a remote area of the Floyd Bennett airfield for some summer antics. Two 16 year old drivers with other young passengers on board crashed…
6 hard hats were injured on construction sites in New York City during the month of April compared to 47 a month earlier and 44 in April 2019. 4 workers were injured on Bronx construction sites and 2 of them on Brooklyn sites. 4 workers suffered minor injuries and 2…
A man was injured in a partial building collapse in Manhattan. Part of the facade of a building containing a parking garage on 203 East 38th Street near third Avenue in Murray Hill crashed down the street falling on a parked Limousine with TLC plates. The driver who was sitting…
Dispensing errors occur when a pharmacy commits a medication error and patients receive a different drug, a different dosage or a different drug quantity than their doctor prescribed. Sometimes when the doctor prescribed several medications, the pharmacy might also miss one. While most patients realize when the pharmacy did not…
Every year an estimated 57,000 Americans die and 288,000 are hospitalized to be treated for traumatic brain injury. Another 2.5 million are treated at the emergency room and then released immediately. Traumatic brain injury is a contributing factor in 30% of all injury-related deaths in the US. While only a…
A pedestrian was fatally struck by a car backing up in a residential street in New York City. 64 year old Richard O’Flaherty was crossing Caffrey Avenue in Far Rockaway when he was hit by a car backing up the street. The driver initially made a turn from New Haven…
A man was killed in a box truck accident in New York City last Tuesday. Hamlet Cruz Gomez was going grocery shopping in his SUV when the driver of a stolen box truck lost control of his vehicle and crashed into the SUV. The truck driver, Ramon Pera was behind…
