By: Charles Fleming, Source: LA Times, Originally Published: 6.20.15 Bob Weber had a small but simple plan. He wanted to design a safer helmet for dirt bike riders. The Brea-based entrepreneur ended up disrupting the $250-million-a-year motorcycle helmet industry and igniting a debate over head injuries that could have much broader impact.

By: Tim Smith. Source: The State. COLUMBIA, SC: Stanley Brown lay on the ground on a Charleston street for about two minutes following a police chase in 2010 when he felt “something hit me in the back” and he blacked out, he later testified. Police testified an officer had made a “knee strike” aimed at Brown’s

Thanks to Martin Shkreli, life-saving drug Daraprim will now cost $750 per pill—up from $13.50. And no one, not even the FDA, can stop him. Hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli is 32 years old but he’s acting half that age on Twitter today after news broke that his company, Turing Pharmaceuticals, had raised the price

By: The Editorial Board, Source: The New York Times, Originally Published: 12.25.14 The United States Supreme Court decides cases involving the nation’s most pressing legal issues, affecting the daily lives of hundreds of millions of Americans — and yet so much about its functioning is shrouded in mystique and exclusivity. The court’s front doors are

Source: Boston Globe, By: Bill Vlasic and Hilary Stout, Originally Published: 12.31.14 DETROIT — Spurred by a decade-old ignition switch defect in millions of General Motors vehicles, the auto industry this year has issued more recalls involving old models — those made five or more years ago — than ever before, an analysis of federal

Cynthia Darling, author of Shunned: Outcasts in the Land, wrote the below op-ed to describe her experience with her son’s antidepressant use. Antidepressants can have many side effects, including depression. If you or a loved one is feeling depressed, help can be reached from a number of different avenues, including 24 hour hotlines like the