Scientific and Biomedical
OVERVIEW OF DENTISTRY
Upon graduation from dental school, a graduating dentist will receive on of two degrees to practice dentistry: a DDS (doctor of dental surgery) or a DMD (doctor of dental medicine). There is no significant difference between the two degrees as both dentists received the same education and completed the same curriculum requirements set by the [...]
DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS AND THE DIETARY SUPPLEMENT HEATH AND EDUCATION ACT (DSHEA)
Despite the fact that Americans spend billions of dollars every year on dietary supplements, these products receive very little testing before they go on the market. The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1993 (DSHEA) was passed by Congress in 1994 to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to establish standards with [...]
NON-TRADITIONAL DAMAGES: EMOTIONAL HARM, FEAR OFFUTURE HARM, BYSTANDER DAMAGES AND MEDICAL MONITORING
Here’s a discussion of some extraordinary types of damages for injuries, and case in which such claims have succeeded and failed. The availability of these items depends on the law of the state that governs the litigation (called “the law of the jurisdiction”). While not explicitly based on risk, the newer harms often rely on [...]
CRANIOSYNOSTOSIS AND MEDICAL MALPRACTICE
To help manage the molding that many newborns have as they go through the birth canal and then to deal with the brains rapid growth in the first years of life, the bones of an infant’s skull are separated by the cranial sutures (sagittal, right and left coronal and lambdoid and the metopic suture) and [...]