On March 8, a Bill that would bring Tennessee’s car seat laws into agreement with recommendations from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration was en route to the desk of Governor Bill Haslam to be signed into law. Just two days later, the Tennessee House of Representatives pulled their approval in a rare move on [...]
Digital assistants, or conversation agents, are the wave of the future. It seems that big tech announces updates or new features every week that tweak the way we interact with our smartphones, tablets and computers. The vision of the future that sells new devices is a seamless, natural language interaction; simply ask a question and [...]
As recently as February, the NFL denied any link between the sport and the neurodegenerative disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). During a congressional committee hearing on March 14, Jeff Miller, the league’s senior vice president for health and safety, became the first NFL official to publicly acknowledge that football players have a higher risk of [...]
Nursing home abuse and neglect is a far more common problem than many of us realize. Abuse can be physical, emotional, psychological, financial or even sexual. Our elders are particularly vulnerable, as they may be unable to defend themselves or even properly communicate that a problem exists. If your loved one suffers from an intellectual [...]
Last month, we wrote about the Tennessee Medical Association’s push for a constitutional amendment to cap non-economic damage awards for medical malpractice cases. While researching the subject matter, we discovered a much more disturbing proposal backed by a so-called “patient advocacy group” based in Georgia. The non-profit group, called Patients for Fair Compensation, purports to [...]
Retail walk-in clinics have experienced a major surge in growth and use in the just the past six years. The spike was the result of planned business expansions to provide convenient non-emergency care that was promoted by policy makers and insurers as a way to decrease healthcare costs. A new study published in the March [...]
Having a child is many things: wondrous and scary and exhilarating and upsetting and a thousand other feelings. Children are a part of you, but a part of you that you can’t fully control and worry about constantly. For many, the safety fears of the early years go unrealized. For a very few, those worst [...]
Climate change is controversial, but we do know one thing; the weather this past year has been bizarre. A mix of strange conditions and big storms contributed to challenging driving conditions all winter, and we’ve been subject to high winds and tornado watches this spring. If you have been in a car accident recently, knowing [...]
In late 2010, a small company called AliveCor announced an innovative way to bring advanced medical diagnostics to consumer smartphones. Specifically, the company debuted a smartphone case at the Consumer Electronics Show that was capable of taking an electrocardiogram (ECG) reading of a user’s heart activity through a pair of electrodes. AliveCor hasn’t been slacking [...]
The Tennessee Medical Association is pushing for a constitutional amendment that would cap non-economic damage awards for medical malpractice cases. Amending the state constitution is no small feat; it requires ratification by a two-thirds vote by two General Assemblies and voter approval thereafter. Needless to say, it’s an uphill battle. The deluded thinking that leads [...]
