Living with Type 2 diabetes can be a challenge, and many people struggle to find the right balance of medication, dietary changes and insulin supplementation. Prescription drugs are a good fit for some patients, and can make a world of difference in their quality of life. In some cases, however, prescription drugs can have devastating...
Being involved in a car crash is an incredibly stressful experience, and one that can have a number of lasting ramifications. Aside from the physical trauma that can occur, there are also matters of property damage that must be addressed. Your physical health is, of course, the first priority, but the damage done to your...
I’m Brian Ricci, a workers’ compensation attorney serving all of North Carolina. Sustaining a work-related injury to the knee can be a painful, stressful and overall distressing event. Not only does a worker have to manage the immediate pain and discomfort associated with the injury, there are often lasting repercussions that follow. Fortunately, it is...
When the anticoagulant drug Pradaxa was first released in 2010, many people in the medical community were thrilled. According to studies, there was promise that the blood thinner Pradaxa would be a better fit for patients who needed blood thinners than Warfarin. Blood thinners are used for a variety of reasons, but most commonly, they...
I’m Brian Ricci a personal injury attorney in Greenville, NC. It protects your spinal cord from damage, and does a good job of it. But it’s no match for the forces that get generated by car accidents and work related injuries. A tap on your bumper at 25 mph is enough to cause the spine...
I’m Brian Ricci, an injury and workers’ compensation attorney serving Greenville and the rest of North Carolina. The human eye is an astounding feat of biological engineering. A multitude of components work together to allow our eyes to take in raw information about the world and communicate those messages to the brain. Tiny blood vessels,...
You have certainly heard about the dangers of drunk driving but you probably have not heard too much about the real dangers of drowsy driving. Since more people are more likely to get behind the wheel while sleepy than they are likely to get behind the wheel while intoxicated, in many regards, drowsy driving is...
You’ve been in a car accident, and you called the police to respond to the scene. In turn, the responding officer filled out an accident report that describes the incident known as North Carolina Crash Report Form DMV-349. As you read the report, you find abbreviations that don’t seem to make sense. These abbreviations are...