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$ 3.5 million Settlement for
auto injury

Our eighteen-year-old client was driving on an interstate into the early morning sun. As he drove over a rise in the road, he struck a car that was disabled and stopped in the middle of the road because a 150-pound wheel and tire detached from a tractor-trailer rig traveling in the opposite direction. The lugs holding the tire had broken off, causing the tire and wheel to travel across the median strip, and hit and disable the stopped vehicle.
Awarded: $ 3.5 million

$1,000,000 Jury Verdict for
86 year-old woman

Our client an 86 year-old woman sustained an injury after being struck by a bus. The inattentive bus driver was warned by a passenger that the woman was crossing in front of the bus but could not stop in time to avoid impact.
Awarded: $1,000,000

$785,000 Settlement for
crushed ankle

Our client was operating his motorcycle on a two-lane road when a large box truck made a U-turn into his path of travel. The client attempted to avoid the collision by laying his motorcycle on its side. Unfortunately his lower leg and ankle came in contact with the truck causing seven fractures and soft tissue injury.
Awarded: $785,000

DISCLAIMER: Please note that every case is different and these verdicts and settlements, while accurate, do not represent what we may obtain for you in your case.

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7/5/2009
Bobbi Rahder
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Doctors research immune therapies to fight cancer

A new method of fighting cancer is getting support from some doctors. According to an article in The Boston Globe, doctors are researching how to use the body's own immune system to fight off cancer cells.

This immune therapy approach is called a vaccine, although it is used to treat cancer, not to prevent it. According to the Globe, experimental vaccines were presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology's annual meeting and were targeting prostate, melanoma, and neroblastoma cancers. The Globe article said the doctors at the cancer conference said they had found a vaccine that was able to stop a form of lymphoma from getting worse for more than a year, but they couldn't predict how long this would last. The researchers are not calling this vaccine a cure for cancer, but a possible option in treatment, according to the article,

The oncologists at the annual meeting described the immune therapy as guerilla warfare, the Globe said. They explained that the body's immune system has problems identifying cancer cells because the cancer cells are the body's own cells, not foreign cells like flu cells and so the immune system has trouble recognizing a problem and doesn't immediately attack the cancer cells, according to the article.

Labels: cancer immune cancer therapies immune system metformin National Cancer Institute oncologist vaccine

2/2/2009
Bobbi Rahder
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Does dirt help keep us healthy?

    A recent article in the New York Times entitled, “Babies Know: A Little Dirt is Good for you,”
http://www.nytimes/2009/01/27/health/27brod.html?em, says that babies know an important truth—eating dirt is good for people.   As the author, Jane E. Brody discusses in the article, this illustrates an instinctive behavior that still exists because it has helped us survive as a species. New studies are exploring why immune system disorders like multiple sclerosis, Type 1 diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease, asthma and allergies have risen significantly in the United States and other developed countries. Massachusetts attorney Thomas M. Kiley, http://www.tomkileylaw.com, concentrates on children's health issues in his law practice in Boston.

    Researchers are exploring what they call the hygiene hypothesis that concludes that the bacteria, viruses and worms that enter baby's bodies through eating dirt help them develop a healthy immune system. Some other studies suggest that some immune systems that develop autoimmune disorders, allergies, or asthma may benefit from worms. According to a new book entitled, “Why Dirt is Good” by Mary Ruebush, a microbiology and immunology instructor, babies who put things in their mouths are allowing their immune response to explore their environment. She suggests that this is practice for a child's immune system to adapt to the environment. Another researcher, Dr. Joel Weinstock, director of gastroenterology and hepatology at Tufts Medical Center in Boston said the immune system at birth is like an unprogrammed computer needing instruction.

Labels: "Why Dirt is Good" antibacterial products children's health dirt environment food allergies hygiene hypothesis immune system immune system disorders

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