The District has reached a $3.5 million settlement with the family of Terrence Sterling, the unarmed motorcyclist who was fatally shot in 2016 by a D.C. police officer during an attempted arrest for reckless driving.
The settlement in the wrongful-death lawsuit comes four months after an internal review by the D.C. police concluded that Officer Brian Trainer should not have pulled his gun and was not in danger when he fired at Sterling. Read More...
"Joel Gibbard is to be congratulated in advancing the availability of functioning prosthetic devices at affordable prices," commented Miss Barbara Jemec, founding chair of the British Foundation for International Reconstructive Surgery and Training (BFirst), on learning of the prize.
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Tanning beds can ring up a steep bill — a whopping $343 million each year in medical costs in the US alone.
Indoor tanning has long been tied to skin cancer, the most common type of cancer in the US. It’s estimated that 30 million people — nearly 25 percent of whom are teenagers — head to tanning beds at least once a year.
And the health care costs of the habit can add up, health economists report in a new study published Tuesday in the Journal of Cancer Policy. Read More...