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Paralyzed Boy Receives $23 Million Award For Birth Injury
According to Scotsman News, a massive pay out has been awarded to the family of a boy who was left paralyzed after his spine was damaged at birth. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has agreed to settle a birth trauma lawsuit for $23 million, but the total amount of damages has not been revealed. The boy needs 24-hour case for the rest of his life, costing hundreds of thousands of dollars each year. The judge in the case found that the boy has been left paralyzed from the head down after suffering catastrophic neurological trauma at birth. During delivery assisted by forceps, there was a compression-torsion injury to the child’s spinal cord at the highest level. While the infant suffered no brain injury, the child is paralyzed from the head down and cannot breathe spontaneously, requiring ventilatory support with 24-hour case. The judge decided that part of the settlement should…
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Study Says Roundup Weed Killer May Cause Birth Defects
InjuryBoard, researchers have found that the ingredient in popular pesticide Roundup may cause birth defects. A report published by Earth Open Source says that the European Commission has previously ignored or dismissed many other findings from the independent scientific literature showing that Roundsup and glyphosate cause endocrine disruption, damage to DNA, reproductive and developmental toxicity, neurotoxicity, cancer and birth defects. Roundup is a broad-spectrum herbicide sold under the Roundup brand and the generic name of glyphosate. Use of Roundup is widespread not only in consumer applications but also in commercial agriculture. The report says that the European pesticide regulatory agency knew but failed to warn the public of Roundup’s effects. The effects are found at very low doses, comparable to levels of pesticide residues found in food and the environment. The researchers said that industry studies show that Roundup’s glyphosate causes birth defects in laboratory animals and that these adverse…
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Mountaintop Mining Associated With High Birth Defect Rates, Says Study
According to the Science Fair, a study has found that mountaintop coal mining raises birth defects. Children born in mountaintop-mining communities may suffer elevated risks of birth defects. Nationwide, about 1 in 33 babies suffer a birth defects, which is also the leading cause of infant deaths. An upcoming Environmental Research journal study reports that children born in counties home to mountaintop coal mining had a 26% higher risk of suffering one of those birth defects, compared to non-mining communities. A number of studies has found health risks associated with coal mining regions, said the lead researcher. Mountaintop mining, where coal seams are exposed by blasting off the top of elevations, has been linked to air and water pollution. The study covered West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia, where mountaintop mining occurs. Over the course of the study, mountaintop removal mining produced 882 million tons of coal from those four…
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