Earlier this month, a jury in Hamilton County awarded an Ohio woman over $1.2 million in her medical misdiagnosis lawsuit. The jury found that the doctor who treated the plaintiff, Dr. Michael Draznik, acted negligently in waiting too long to do appropriate tests. The jury... Read More

According to a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), there was a nearly quadrupled rate of prescription drug deaths between 1999 and 2011. Abuse of commonly-used prescription painkillers like codeine and Vicodin, known as opioid analgesics, lead to overdose... Read More

State regulators and consumer protections groups who fight to stop nursing home abuse may be having their causes unintentionally undermined by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“Medicare”). Medicare, the government agency that certifies nursing homes to receive payment from the federal government, has... Read More

A Waco, Texas woman has filed a lawsuit against a doctor and his medical practice alleging organ transplant malpractice. Two years ago, the plaintiff donated a kidney to her grandmother. Her grandmother died from terminal cancer 11 months later. According to the complaint, doctors failed... Read More

The gallbladder is an inessential organ and gallbladder removal is one of the most common surgeries performed, but a new gallbladder surgery study examines the effects of delaying surgery in certain patients after a severe gallstone attack. The results suggest that emergency room personnel should... Read More

The Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the agency tasked with eliminating nursing home abuse, recently cited Courtyard Rehabilitation and Health Center, LLC, in El Dorado, AR, for placing residents in immediate jeopardy. The citations came after a... Read More

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has changed its reporting of hospital errors, making it harder for consumers to make informed choices about their care. This month, CMS stopped providing public data on eight avoidable “hospital acquired conditions” (HACs), including reports of when... Read More

Small changes can mean big improvements in reducing the rate of hospital infections – Loyola University Medical Center recently reported that reduced central line bloodstream infections by 68 percent through a change in equipment. The study ran for two years and tracked the effect of... Read More