Author: Erin Elizabeth

When Actemra, a new drug for rheumatoid arthritis, arrived on the market, patients and doctors alike were excited. You see, treatments for the disease (which affects about 1.5 million Americans) can have terrifying side effects and Actemra wasn’t associated with any of the regular cast of characters (heart attacks, heart failure, or life-threatening lung complications).3 However, hundreds of patients who took Actemra have indeed died from those exact problems and much more have suffered a great deal. In fact, there is clear evidence that the risks of heart attacks, strokes, heart failure, and other conditions were as high or...

On July 6th the state of Virginia executed William Morva for the 2006 murders of a sheriff’s deputy and a hospital security guard. Morva had been serving time in a county jail for an attempted armed robbery, that never took place, and premeditated his escape from jail. You may not have heard about this case though because it was an especially tough one; Morva suffered from severe mental illness and yet the jury on his case was never told that he was unable to separate “delusion from reality.” The state knew though and pushed for the death penalty anyway. RELATED...