David Lear

MEDICAL BANKRUPTCIES: WHAT YOU CAN DO TO

First the bad news: about 2,000,000 personal bankruptcies each year are caused by unexpected medical expenses. Of all those people, 1,500,000 have (or had) health insurance before they ran into difficult financial straights. But wait a minute. Isn't th... Read >

195,000 Die Annually From Hospital Mistakes

It just seemed too absurd to be true, but there it was in the August 2, 2004 edition of Newsweek I picked up the other day: "According to HealthGrades, the health-care-rating organization that conducted the study, needless deaths averaged 195,000 a year i... Read >

School Principal Discovers Effective Support

For Dallas elementary school principal Denise Hampton, the miraculous journey that was about to unfold started with her niece Ashley's concentration problems in school. Ashley, who was ten years old at the time, was having the same problem that many k... Read >

Nutrasweet and Brain Tumors

Nutrasweet and Brain Tumors: Class Action Suit Ready To Launch Had any Nutrasweet lately? If you have, you might like to know that a class action lawsuit is in the works against Nutrasweet manufacturer G.D. Searle. A consumer rights advocacy gro... Read >

Stem Cell Breakthrough: Can You Now Make

Over the past few years, stem cells have been getting a lot of attention. What makes them so interesting is their ability to stimulate the production of many types of healthy cells. That means that a single stem cell can turn itself into brain cells, liv... Read >