January 2016 Archives

For disability claimants, new developments in technology have brought video surveillance to a new level. And it’s not good news. A private investigation company has launched a new service using unmanned surveillance vehicles. They are able to videotape people around the clock, for as many as five days, non-stop. The remote vehicles are stationary and […]

According to a recent article in The New York Times, new guidelines issued this month will remove barriers that in the past prevented patients from gaining access to their medical records. The new guidelines say that doctors and hospitals have to provide medical records to patients, and even set a time frame – within 30 […]

A 55 year-old man from New York who worked as a Claim Representative for a well-known auto insurance company suffers from a long history of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), also known as Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome (RSD), chronic pain syndrome, and multiple orthopedic conditions including degenerative disc disease, lumbosacral neuritis/radiculitis, radiculopathy, neural foraminal stenosis, […]

It’s not The New England Journal of Medicine, but when an article on a health issue is covered in O, The Oprah Magazine, millions of people around the world read the article in a print issue, and many millions more see it online. The November 2015 issue included an article, “Is This Why You’re Still […]