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  • Fast Track Your Social Security Disability Benefits Application If You Have Early-Onset Alzheimer's In North Carolina   
    Description: Early-onset Alzheimer's Disease has been added to the Social Security Administration's list of Compassionate Allowances. This means that those in North Carolina with an early-onset Alzheimer's diagnosis can fast track their disability benefits application.
  • Social Security Disability Benefits And Cancer | North Carolina SSDI and SSI Benefits Attorney   
    Description: Can you get Social Security Disability Benefits if you are diagnosed with cancer? The answer depends on several factors - including what specific type of cancer you have and on the prognosis. Learn about which cancers are a part of the SSA's Compassionate Allowances list and whether or not you may be eligible for SSDI or SSI benefits.
  • What Is The SSA’s List Of Compassionate Allowances?   
    Description: If you suffer from an extremely serious disease or condition, you may be eligible for quick Social Security disability benefits -- a process that takes weeks instead of months or years. Learn more about the SSA's list of compassionate allowances and about why they chose to put this list of serious illnesses together to expedite the benefits of certain individuals.
  • North Carolina Social Security Disability And Diabetes   
    Description: A diabetes diagnosis can change your life - and put your health in danger. Is it possible to receive Social Security Disability Insurance benefits if you are suffering from Type 1 diabetes or Type 2 diabetes? Learn more about the requirements of the Social Security Administration.
  • Social Security Disability Benefits And Mental Illness   
    Description: Mental illnesses can be just as debilitating as physical disabilities, but unfortunately it is often more difficult to secure social security disability benefits if you have a mental illness. A North Carolina social security disability lawyer may be able to help you secure social security benefits for your mental illness.

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  • Elopement And Wandering Deaths In North Carolina Nursing Homes | NC Nursing Home Neglect Lawyer   
    Description: One out of ten nursing home neglect lawsuits center around elopement or wandering cases - instances in which nursing home residents leave their care facilities and wander away. Many nursing home elopement cases end in serious injuries or death. Read more about nursing home elopement in North Carolina in this library article.
  • What Is A Silver Alert? | NC Nursing Home Neglect Lawyer   
    Description: Established in North Carolina in 2007, the Silver Alert system helps authorities locate missing senior citizen with cognitive disorders who have wandered from their caregivers or nursing homes. In a year alone, the Silver Alert system has helped police find over 100 seniors.
  • North Carolina Nursing Home Neglect: Dehydration | NC Nursing Home Negligence Lawyer   
    Description: While dehydration is not a common concern for the young or the healthy, older people, mentally ill people, or the disabled are at greater risk for dehydration, kidney failure, and malnutrition. Learn more about why dehydration is a common sign of nursing home negligence and how dangerous dehydration can be for your loved one in an adult care facility.
  • Nursing Home Abuse And Medication In North Carolina   
    Description: Overmedication and failure to medicate are becoming increasingly common in North Carolina nursing homes and adult care facilities. Overmedication often renders patients unresponsive and drugged, while undermedication can leave patients in medical danger and in great pain. Your elder loved one should be getting his or her medication regularly. If they are not taking their medication as prescribed, they could be victims of nursing home abuse and neglect.
  • North Carolina Nursing Home Abuse: Malnutrition   
    Description: Nursing home malnutrition can lead to infection, weakness, disease, confusion, and an overall lower quality of life. Do you know the causes of North Carolina nursing home malnutrition? Do you know the warning signs of North Carolina nursing home malnutrition?

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  • Malpractice Lawsuit Against Hospital for Failing to Diagonoe and Treat Sepsis [PDF]   
    Description: Complaint filed in a mother's lawsuit against Betsy Johnson Reginal Hospital in Dunn, N. C. for the death of her son who died of sepsis while in the hospital
  • Brain Tumor Misdiagnosis | Brain Cancer Wrong Diagnosis | North Carolina Medical Malpractice Lawyers   
    Description: Many brain tumors need immediate treatment in order to stop progress, prevent long-term disabilities, and save lives. This means it is extremely important that your doctor diagnose your brain tumor quickly and accurately. Unfortunately, brain tumor misdiagnosis, wrong diagnosis, and delayed diagnosis are all too common in America today.
  • EMS Mistakes | Common Ambulance Errors   
    Description: You know that you can be the victim of medical malpractice while at the hospital or in the doctor's office - but what about in the ambulance that takes you there? Learn more about the medical mistakes and medical errors that can happen in the ride to the hospital by EMS and EMT.
  • Silent Heart Attacks Affect 200,000 People A Year   
    Description: It's estimated that 4 million people in the United States have suffered from a silent heart attack and never known it. These silent heart attacks, which are just as dangerous as regular heart attacks, are hard to diagnose even though it is imperative that they are treated aggressively.
  • When Doctors Fail To Diagnose Breast Cancer   
    Description: The failure to diagnose breast cancer can be deadly - and yet breast cancer is one of the most frequently missed diseases by doctors and other medical professionals. Do you know the ways that doctors can botch your breast cancer diagnosis?

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  • Premises Liability In North Carolina | North Carolina Slip And Fall Accidents   
    Description: If you slip and fall on someone else's property because of a hazard on their property, you may be able to file a premises liability lawsuit to recover damages and pay for the costs and consequences of your accident. Learn more about North Carolina premises liability.
  • Deadly Driving Distractions in North Carolina   
    Description: The majority of Americans understand how dangerous it is to speed or drink and drive... but many people across the country don't understand the enormous danger of driving distractions. Your next car accident may be due to a phone call, a text message, or a meal behind the wheel. Learn which driving distractions often lead to car accidents.
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  • What Is Negligence? What Is Gross Negligence?   
    Description: In many personal injury cases, the victim's accident could have been avoided if not for someone else's negligence. But what exactly defines negligent behavior and gross negligence?
  • Dangerous Part Of I-77 In NC Causes Multiple Accidents   
    Description: Although it's as straight as an arrow, one stretch of I-77 in North Carolina has led to several fatal car accidents and truck crashes over the past few years. Now, NC State Police are warning drivers to stay aware.

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