External bleeding is easy to recognize, but it may not have any readily identifiable symptoms at first. Internal bleeding most commonly occurs after physical trauma and can lead to serious complications and death. What Causes Internal Bleeding? Internal bleeding can arise from various traumatic injuries, including: Broken bones. Most broken bones cause temporary internal...

  Highlighting the unsuspected perils of traveling aboard commercial ships and ferries, the whale watching vessel Adventure Hornblower collided with the Embarcadero Pier in San Diego on Thursday afternoon. The Hornblower company is currently investigating the cause of the crash, which apparently was due to mechanical error (a throttle becoming stuck in the forward...

In the early morning hours of March 9, a Barrio Logan man was struck and killed by a trolley. The precise details of the accident are still unclear, but witnesses claim that the man was riding a bicycle and wearing earbuds, and that he failed to see the oncoming trolley bearing down on him...

Car accidents kill and injure innocent children this past weekend. Numerous adults also killed and injured. It was a deadly weekend for numerous innocent children who lost their lives due to the actions of others drivers. Sadly, car accidents are one of the leading causes of death for young children, and most times the...

A 45-year-old Elk Grove man tragically died Thursday morning in a collision on Interstate 5 involving a big rig, the Sacramento Bee reported.  The accident occurred in heavy rainfall around 6 a.m. on Interstate 5 near Seamas Avenue. A CHP officer told the Bee that the reason for the crash was still under investigation,...

Another accident has been reported near Route 67, in Lakeside. On Sunday evening, a 34-year-old Lakeside women was very tragically killed when a man driving a blue Toyota RAV4 struck her at the intersection of Woodside and Riverview avenues. The driver told investigators that he was trying to get back on Route 67 and...

Most California counties have a few “killer stretches” of roads, where collisions happen surprisingly often. Most dangerous roads are two-lane highways where drivers frequently travel too fast and an unsafe passing attempt or one small slip of the steering wheel, either due to distraction, driving under the influence or falling asleep at the wheel...

The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation found sufficient evidence that 12 Zofran cases involving similar facts (birth defects due to taking drug during pregnancy) and a similar defendant (Zofran’s manufacturer, GlaxoSmithKline) and consolidated them to a single court in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, multiple news outlets reported. Zofran has been on the...

You may not know it, but an infection following a surgery may be caused by a forced-air warming blanket like the Bair Hugger blanket. These blankets are used to regulate temperatures that drop due to anesthesia, but also may be blowing possibly contaminated air into open surgical sites. The blankets, which look similar in...

About 30,000 Burley Design Child Bicycle Trailers are being recalled because the trailers with black plastic tow bar receivers can separate from the tow bar when they appear to be connected, posing a crash hazard to the child in the trailer. These items were sold new at REI, Sport Chalet and other sporting goods...