Articles Tagged ‘lawsuit’
Health & Healthcare | By June 05, 2008 | By Nirupama Shankar, PT, MHS | 1 Comment
Warning Labels for Inactivity: A New Trend in Health Education?
This is an era where lawsuits are filed for the absence of warnings — the McDonald’s lawsuit of 1994 (81-year-old woman awarded 2.9 million dollars for being scalded by a beverage that she ordered) and of 2003 (the plaintiff complaint stated that eating at McDonald’s contributed to his obesity; was dismissed and later modified to state that the fast food giant did not disclose it’s ingredient list).
Can we expect a lawsuit against professionals in the healthcare field for not aggressively educating the community about the consequences of prolonged inactivity?
The answer may well be in the affirmative. Read more →
- The Cigarette Century and Beyond
We needed a truthful account of how cigarettes have become the highest selling addictive drug in the history of the human race, lawfully. Alan Brandt, Harvard Professor of History of Medicine and Science, and author of the recently published “The Cigarette Century – The Rise, Fall, and... Read more →
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