America is, and should be, a country of religious freedom. The roots of the winter holiday season, though, are based on the beliefs of Judaism and Christianity expressed in the Bible. (Currently, more than 70 percent of Americas consider themselves either...
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Brain injury is not just a traumatic issue that affects people in the United States, it is a global epidemic. For that reason, the Unites States National Institute of Health has been partnering with the European Commission (EC) and the Canadian Institute of Health...
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Halloween may not be an officially recognized federal holiday, but for many schools and millions of children it may as well be. While many towns have already celebrated Halloween with trick-or-treating this past weekend, today is the day of costume and candy for the...
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The new school year is well on its way and youth athletics have begun, including for “about 1 million youth between the ages of 6 and 12 [who] play tackle [football].” However, even though this number may seem high, youth athletic participation has continued its...
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Last week, President Trump signed into law a bipartisan minibus of “two critically important funding bills” for fiscal year 2019. Specifically, the bills cover the financing of the Departments of Defense, the Labor, Health and Human Services and Education. Included...
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In 2002, Senator John McCain was instrumental in establishing the Arizona-based nonprofit Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), “a one-of-a-kind genomics research institute.” Unfortunately, the research focus of this institute later became all too...
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In the modern world, our understanding of science changes rapidly. Law, at large, does not change so rapidly. What has changed, in the past 20 years, is that defense lawyers have begun, during the trial and/or sentencing phases of court, to use brain damage/injury...
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Last week, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences received a three-year, $450,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living, in addition to the $75,000 annual gift they are receiving from the Arkansas...
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A hot topic in the past few decades, illegal immigration has now come to the forefront because of America’s current president and his border wall. (For the past 10 years, the estimated number of illegal immigrants in America has stayed relatively stable at about 11...
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For me and many others, David Copperfield is the nation’s foremost illusionist/magician. He even earned a spot on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1995. From 1974 until last week, his magic has been just that; Copperfield could do what seemed impossible. In 2013, an...
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