California Mesothelioma Attorney : Mesothelioma has a very long latency period (the time from the initial asbestos exposure to the development of cancer), making it doubly treacherous. This latency period can be anywhere from 25 to 40 years. The length of time it takes patients to report symptoms varies but can range from two weeks [...]
Lung Cancer Lawsuit: Patients with Lung Cancer (stage I or II disease), bone scanning and CT of the brain are not recommended in the absence of related symptoms. A bone scan should be performed only if the patient complains of bone pain. Plain radio graphic films of the affected area should be obtained to supplement [...]
Carrier IQ Class Action Lawsuit News- 1/26/2012: Physical privacy is the right to be free from unwanted, unreasonable intrusions into, or searches of, one’s body. It is concerned with bodily integrity (and, indirectly, emotional integrity, together with human dignity). Issues revolving around physical privacy include schemes for compulsory immunisation, blood transfusion without consent, compulsory provision [...]
Cell Phone Class Action Lawsuit News – 1/27/2012: While it may have been the telephone that shifted the privacy debate from the physical to the electronic, it was the advent of the computer that presented law and policy makers with their biggest challenge. First produced in 1946, by the early 1970s the computer’s threat to [...]
Cell Phone Class Action Lawsuit News – 1/27/2012: The most pervasive individual Web privacy concerns stems from secondary use of information, defined as personal information collected for one purpose and used, subsequently, for a different purpose (Culnan, 1993). Studies suggests that (a) users are more willing to provide personal information when they are not identified, [...]
Cell Phone Class Action Lawsuit News- 1/27/2012: RFID readers, GPS phones and motes all emit electromagnetic energy over the airwaves and cover areas as large as six square acres (Albrecht & McIntyre, 2004). Further, readers are installed and operational in walls, floors, doorways, shelving, cars, security, and payment devices with RFID slated for release in [...]
Cell Phone Privacy Class Action Lawsuit News- 1/27/2012: Whether people use cell phones and the Internet at work, in public, or for personal reasons also contributes to how “connected” they feel to other people and to their daily obligations. The portable features of cell phones and the ease of accessing the Internet in public places [...]
Cell Phone Privacy Class Action Lawsuit News- 1/27/2012: If some technologies, such as the cell phone and Internet, give us the illusion of controlling time, they also offer the freedom of space—to move far beyond the confines of a wired phone, the traditional office, or the stacks in a library—and still have access to information [...]
Cell Phone Privacy Class Action Lawsuit News- 1/27/2012: Although cell phones and the Internet may seem to be relatively new technologies, both trace their history to the development of wired forms of telegraph and telephone, and wireless radio. Each of these technologies played its own part in altering concepts of time and space and blurring [...]
Actos Lawsuit: For women, a cystectomy includes the removal of the uterus and part of the vaginal wall. What does that mean for you? Well, for one thing, your vagina may be narrower as a result of the surgery. Usually it is possible to continue to have intercourse, although sometimes there can be some pain [...]