A new study has found that the risks of having a child with cerebral palsy (CP) are higher in families in which one or more relatives already has the condition. Cerebral palsy is a neurologically based disability affecting gross motor, speech and other functions on... Read More

In a recent cancer misdiagnosis lawsuit, a Coldwater, Ohio woman is accusing two doctors and their employers of medical negligence and malpractice in failing to identify and treat in a reasonably timely manner a tumor in her knee that within months had spread to her lungs.... Read More

On Tuesday, June 10, 11-year-old Alijah Jones and his mother Stephanie Stewart won their cerebral palsy lawsuit against Ohio’s MetroHealth Medical Center and Dr. Steven Weight, when a jury awarded the boy and his mother $14.5 million for birth injuries allegedly caused by medical malpractice. Birth... Read More

Six-year-old Maverick Ramseyer has cerebral palsy (CP), a neurological condition that impairs gross and fine motor functions. Maverick’s parents are blaming his condition on preventable birth injuries that Maverick sustained at the Oregon-based Silverton Hospital—and they’re taking their case to court, claiming Maverick’s CP is... Read More

If you’re a low-income resident receiving Medicaid, the insurance for low-income Americans, and you’re considering spinal surgery, you may want to think again. A new study finds that Medicaid patients are at a 68 percent higher risk of suffering complications from spinal surgery than their... Read More

World Ovarian Cancer Day came and went this month, but the devastating effects of far-too-common misdiagnoses of a disease that is the deadliest of all gynecologic cancers, claiming 15,000 lives each year, remain. A recent nationwide study conducted by the National Ovarian Cancer Coalition found that... Read More

A spate of proposed legislation in Albany, New York will give seniors in that state more protections against elderly abuse. The sponsors of the bill, Senators David Valesky (D-Oneida) and Michael Nozzolio (R-Fayette), say the proposed laws would give banks authority to refuse dubious transactions... Read More

For the fourth consecutive year the state of Washington has seen a significantly higher rate of rare, deadly birth defects in babies born there. The latest report from 2013 revealed that the disturbing trend continues: seven cases of anencephaly—a condition in which major portions of... Read More