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See Ramsey County Commissioner’s Stunning Disclosure, Compelling Personal Story and Call for Change:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G9njFOE-Y8&feature=youtu.be

The world of medicine has found an expansive list of uses for anti-coagulants (blood thinners). Doctors have been prescribing blood thinners for years, helping to reduce the risk of blood clots and strokes. Until 2011, the most popular blood thinner was a drug called Coumadin. It was designed to thin the blood enough to prevent

You could very well be one of Johnson & Johnson’s latest victims. The pharmaceutical giant has acknowledged its failure to warn patients of the risks associated with taking the anti-psychotic drug Risperdal. The dangerous drug was developed by Johnson & Johnson in effort to help people deal with mental disorders. It was targeted at young

Another Boy Scout Abuse Survivor Hears Call for Justice; Steps Forward, Files Suit (Minneapolis, Minnesota—July 14, 2015) Three weeks after Ramsey County Commissioner and sexual abuse survivor Jim McDonough made an impassioned appeal for Boy Scout abuse survivors to come forward and seek justice, another victim has emerged.  “John Doe 151” alleges abuse by the same Scout

Many women suffer from conditions such as pelvic organ prolapse (POP) and stress urinary incontinence (SUI), for reasons ranging from child birth to simply getting older. There are more than 500,000 surgeries performed each year aimed at correcting these conditions. Surgeons attempt to use a surgical device called Transvaginal Mesh (TVM); which is designed to

The Official Creditor Committee in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis bankruptcy has made an unprecedented appeal for abuse survivors to anonymously file claims .  The debtor in bankruptcy, in this case the Archdiocese, is legally charged with giving such notice to all survivors of abuse.  However, the Creditor Committee didn’t wait around for the Archdiocese

Some People recognize an opportunity to set an example and make a difference.  Today, Jim McDonough is that person: Read More:  https://www.facebook.com/jvwlaw?fref=ts

Newly appointed interim head of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minnesota, Archbishop Bernard Hebda, said yesterday that he will devote most of his time to the archdiocese, because “The archdiocese has been suffering something difficult and shocking, and it would make sense to give [it] the bulk of time and energy at this point.”  What was unfortunately missing from the Archbishop’s comments

In the wake of the recent criminal charges against the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis for mishandling of child sex abuse reports, the Diocese of Helena Bankruptcy, recent lawsuits against other religious groups and a multi-million dollar punitive damage verdict against the Boy Scouts of America, it is important to remember there are readily

One of the consequences of claiming moral superiority while hiding pedophile priests is that followers stop following.  Read more: Fall from grace: Why Nienstedt had so little support among Twin Cities Catholics