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Since 1990, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has logged more than 200 adverse events associated with compounded medications produced by pharmacies across the country. USA Today reports that despite increasing incidents of pharmacy malpractice – from contaminated drugs to improper sterilization techniques –... Read More
A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reports that sleep deprivation in surgeons doesn’t always result in more medical errors when performing gall bladder surgeries. One of the lead researchers, Danielle Nash, told Reuters that the study’s findings should prove... Read More
A U.S. army veteran and his wife were recently awarded $8.3 million dollars, after a federal judge found health care providers at John Cochran VA Medical Center were negligent in their duty to provide a proper standard of care. Dirk Askew, who was just 43 when he... Read More
Florida resident Patricia Lancaster sought medical attention from Orange Park Medical Center for a life-threatening blockage of her intestines. In what was to be a routine procedure to remove built-up scar tissue in her GI tract, the patient was unwittingly subject to an off-label procedure,... Read More
About a third of all cardiac stents implanted in patients are unnecessary, says cardiologist David Brown of Stony Brook University School of Medicine. That amounts to more than 200,000 stents a year, and controversy surrounding this practice has spurred nationwide litigation and a federal investigation... Read More
Glenn Weinburg just won a medical malpractice suit, in which he alleged that former cardiologist Dr. Mark Midei implanted several cardiac stents in his heart unnecessarily. The Baltimore News Journal reports that a county jury determined the ex-surgeon was liable for doctor negligence in the... Read More
Baltimore’s Mercy Medical Center has one of the region’s busiest maternity wards, with more than 200 babies delivered last year by the hospital’s affiliate midwife practice. But after a recent spate of high-profile and costly birth injury lawsuits, the hospital is faced with damaged bond... Read More
Senate Bill 141, also known as the ‘Patient Injury Act’ could effectively change the landscape of medical malpractice laws in Georgia, if passed. Sponsored by Republican Senator Brandon Beach, the act would reportedly help lower health care costs and facilitate patient payouts by replacing all... Read More