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Video of Patrick Lyoya Shooting Released to the Public A deadly shooting occurred on April 4th on Nelson Avenue north of Griggs Street on the Southeast side. A GRPD officer pulled over Patrick Lyoya at about 8am when he saw that the license plate on the car he was driving didn’t match the vehicle....

Telemedicine or telehealth has become increasingly popular in the coronavirus pandemic. But did you know that prior to the pandemic, almost 90% of health care facilities used telehealth apps to meet patient needs? And while electronic health delivery, such as virtual doctor visits, provides for more affordable patient access to healthcare providers, telemedicine presents...

A Tennessee nurse was recently on trial for reckless homicide after an error of administering a medication killed a woman. Last week, the criminal case of 38-year-old RaDonda Vaught, a nurse at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, who injected a patient with a powerful paralytic drug rather than a mild sedative in...

Did you know that auto accidents are the second leading cause of traumatic brain injuries in the United States? Traumatic brain injuries or TBIs from car accidents account for 17.3% of all TBIs each year. That’s second only to falls, which make up just over 35% of traumatic brain injuries. There were roughly 223,050...

Did you know that someone in the U.S. has a stroke every 40 seconds, and that every four minutes, someone dies of stroke? When the blood supply to brain tissue is blocked by a blood clot, it’s known as an ischemic stroke. A stroke can also occur when a blood vessel in the brain...