Remember those controversies about biased doctors misreading reading x-rays to find asbestosis or “pleural changes consistent with...

From the January 26, 2010  NCI Cancer Bulletin is a story that provides the latest example of the dawning age of new science brought...

For 2010, I wish you good health, and lives full of hope, peace, joy and love. While you are thinking about New Year’s Resolutions,...

I’d love to take a few days to read and write about interesting thinking on mass torts and claims resolution issues. But that’s not...

Here’s a pop quiz. Out of 83,000 or so chemicals, how many chemicals or chemical classes has EPA regulated under TSCA? 1,103? 5,279?...

A hat tip to David Zaring at The Conglomerate for this post that covers some interesting ground regarding “risk” issue, including...

More great new science at the observable cellular level. As described below, scientists used tools to observe cellular level shapes, and...

Wondering what the Daubert case law will look like in a few years as great new science pushes past epidemiology as new machines and...

Courtesy of a friend in Australia, here is a link to a story on new radiotherapy science developed in Australia that is bringing some new...

Are cord blood donations important ? You bet ! Great new science documents that children and others with leukemia (and perhaps other...

90,000 people per year travel to Houston’s MD Anderson Cancer Center for treatment. Many are children. Most will not find a cure. Some...

Here’s a science follow up to yesterday’s historic ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme Court regarding medical monitoring due to genome...

This August 27 press release from Abbott and Pfizer exemplifies another way science is changing and will over time create new legal...

More on brain rewiring and damages potentially recoverable in current or future tort litigation. This prior post provided some fact...

More on science and tort law. Suppose medical malpractice destroys a woman’s inner ear balance function to the point she can stand up...

Today, more on science, cancer and law. Why do I think these topics are worth writing about for tort lawyers and perhaps some...

The world plainly is growing smaller and is more subject to empiric evaluation. To me, those are great trends for many reasons, including...

Here’s a new example of changes in science causing changes in law. An article here reports the Danish government has now paid industrial...

Here is a blog entry from one of the lawyers at the Conglomerate explaining part of the personal and moving story behind how and why...

The substance of sponsored medical literature remains a controversial issue. A 2009 article by Mark S. Frankel in the ABA’s SciTech...