2012 Articles

Study Finds that Pneumonia is Most Common Health Care-Associated Infection

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently published the results of a first-time study which involved a survey of nearly 12,000 patients. The patients were all individuals that were ...
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Family Stunned by Murder-Suicide Tragedy

The surviving family of a man and his daughter are mourning the devastating loss that occurred recently in a local Atlanta home. While detailed reports have not been released by authorities, ...
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The Supreme Court Will Set Precedent For Medical Malpractice By Hearing Birth Injury Case

A case involving birth injuries sustained by one child during a cesarean section has made it to the U.S. Supreme Court. As a result of these injuries sustained during the birth in 2000, the girl needs ...
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How Can a Medical Malpractice Lawyer Help You?

Many think that a medical malpractice case is the result of a doctor making a mistake in treating a patient. However, for there to be a medical malpractice lawsuit, the medical malpractice lawyer must ...
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Postoperative Infection in Medical Malpractice

Those who undergo surgery are often at risk for a postoperative infection in the tissues where the incision took place and the surrounding area. Such an infection can occur within one day or more ...
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Types of Anesthesia Malpractice

When one is to undergo any type of surgical treatment, anesthesia is used in varying degrees to suppress the patient's experience of pain. In general anesthesia, the person is given enough drugs ...
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The Role of Drugs in Psychiatric Malpractice

Everyone has heard of medical malpractice, in which medical professionals, clinics, and hospitals commit negligence which negatively affects their patients. Less well-known is a subset of medical ...
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Cerebral Palsy as a Birth Injury

Cerebral palsy is a type of birth injury which is often used as general term that encompasses a wide variety of consequences. How a child will be affected from this injury will depend on what part of ...
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Ensuring Patient Safety With Effective, Timely Drug Recalls

The Food And Drug Administration (FDA) regularly publicizes drug recalls to patients and physicians. Undoubtedly, these two parties are key stakeholders whenever a drug is under recall. However, even ...
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Baby Injury Due to Hospital's Medical Negligence

When a young pregnant woman went to Pottstown Emergency Medical Center in Pottstown, Pennsylvania on a Sunday evening in 2008 to deliver her baby, she had little idea that the experience would leave ...
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Doctor Fined by Medical Board

A New Hampshire doctor was fined and ordered to take several classes after being investigated by the state Board of Medicine. The doctor, R.G., practices internal medicine at a clinic in Laconia and ...
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Controversial Medical Malpractice Bill is Passed

New Hampshire is the first state to pass a medical malpractice reform bill which works to give incentives for pre-trial settlements. Governor John Lynch had vetoed the bill stating that it "lacks ...
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Common Complications from Vaginal Mesh Implants

Vaginal mesh surgery, when performed by competent experts has been shown to treat incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse. However, the Food and Drug Administration continues to warn women across the ...
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Missouri House Representatives Endorse Abortion Pill Restrictions to Help Avoid Medical Malpractice

Currently, women are permitted to get a prescription for an abortion-inducing drug, "mifepristone", 24 hours after getting a consultation from a medical professional or certain staff at a ...
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California Law Requires Hospital Infection Reporting

As of 2008, hospitals in California are required to report health-care associated infections (HAIs) to the California Department of Public Health. These are infections patients receive while in the ...
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Have You Been the Victim of a Medication Error?

As the number of prescriptions for medications goes up so can the number of medication errors. In many cases, there is no room for error and a mistake made in regard to treatment by medication can ...
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St. Louis Doctor Buys Unapproved Chemo Drugs

The federal government recently discovered that a St. Louis County doctor bought misbranded and unapproved drugs for chemotherapy from overseas and used them on his patients. A federal indictment that ...
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