Hawaii teens face a significant risk of injury from auto collisions. The statistics are daunting: Car crashes are the #1 killer of teens. 80% of these collisions have some form of driver…
Next time you’re on the road, take a look around, and as so many bumper stickers tell us, check twice for motorcycles. There are many more people choosing two wheels to meet their…
The goal of this article is to warn and to educate, to save lives and prevent injuries. Hawaii's roads are full of mopeds and motorcycles. Young people are opting to get a moped over a…
My dad died 10 years ago at the age of 94. His name was Karl Alfred Parsons and he taught physics and astronomy at Eastern Michigan University most of his life. When he was a boy he wanted to be…
As reported in a recent news story Some Harley Motorcycles Plagued By 'Death Wobble', a motorcycle enthusiast was surprised when he couldn't contro;l the steering of his motorcycle at…
Most motorcycle and moped crashes result in serious injury or death. Often the operator of the moped or motorcycle is not alive to describe what happened. The police arrive and the ambulance…
Hawaii is a great place to ride motorcycles and mopeds. But it is also a place where the roads are crowded, drivers are distracted (now more than ever with rampant cell phone use resulting in…
Actos is a diabetes drug that has been linked to bladder cancer. Actos' single ingredient is Pioglitazone. A medication called Duetact is a combination of Pioglitazone and Glimepiride….
We have to wear seatbelts and we can't drive and use a handheld cell phone. I'll buy that. Those are good rules. Where did they come from? A combination of common sense and our elected…
We all know about the movement on many fronts across the country to end distracted driving. But now Claude Wyle from San Francisco and one of the country's top lawyers, warns that…
Hawaii high school students will be celebrating graduation this month and into June and the text messages and Tweets will be flying through cyberspace each night. If, on May 26th for instance at…
Any type of surgery can be scary. But would you feel better or worse about your impending surgery if you knew how the hospital ranked in terms of patient safety? For some this very question may…