Katarina is a staff writer Medstak with a very unique voice. Though her background is in fine arts, her recent passion lies in raising consumer awareness through writing.
A recent study of approximately 550,000 babies born in Denmark between 2000 and 2008 suggests that there is no link between the use of the drug Pitocin to induce labor and the later development of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in babies born as a... Read More
An 11-year old girl who suffered an injury during childbirth has received an Erb’s Palsy settlement of 250,000 Irish pounds, roughly the equivalent of $360,000. The minor child and her mother brought suit against the National Maternity Hospital in Ireland over their role in the... Read More
A hyperbilirubinemia lawsuit has been filed in the U.S. District Court of the District of Puerto Rico over the damage suffered by an infant due to the alleged sub-standard care he received from medical professionals associated with Presbyterian Community Hospital in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The... Read More
Hospital websites that provide information about a new form of heart valve replacement give information about at least one of its benefits, while omitting some or all of its possible risks, according to a recent study. The study considered hospital websites that presented information about... Read More
The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed a new rule for electronically distributing the prescribing information to go with drugs and other biological products to health care professionals. The new means of distribution is intended to replace paper prescribing information, which may be... Read More
A new bill put forward in the Ohio General Assembly would extend legal protection to physicians who admit to mistakes or take responsibility for them as part of private conversations with patients. The new Ohio medical malpractice bill would expand on a statute already on... Read More
A massive onslaught of funding contributed to the defeat of Proposition 46, a measure to lift the 1975 cap on some malpractice awards in California. Funding of nearly $60 million helped to finance opponents of the measure, which was rejected by two-thirds of voters on... Read More
Medical malpractice awards remain in an overall downward spiral, according to the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen, despite a slight upward movement in 2013. Although the numbers for awards did climb somewhat last year, the group notes that the general trend over the past 15... Read More
