Author: Janet Ward Black

A typical family hunting trip in October, 2000 quickly turned into a nightmare for the Barbers when mom Barbara switched off the safety to unload her Remington 700. A shot rang out, and her nine-year-old son, Gus, was dead. Her hand was nowhere near the trigger. Barbara cannot bear to speak about the accident in […]

What began as a constellation of seemingly isolated cases of deadly infections has become a raging nationwide outbreak of a rare fungal meningitis linked to contaminated epidural steroid injections. The disease continues to spread, and the latest numbers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control are staggering: 510 illnesses from fungal meningitis and peripheral joint […]