As a staff writer for Medstak, Whitney focuses on the importance of early and correct diagnosis especially among women, as well as the early detection of fetal distress.
A Las Vegas physician has been cleared in a wrongful death malpractice suit involving LPGA golfer Erica Blasberg. Dr. Thomas Hess was found not liable for malpractice by a jury in Clark County District Court at the end of the five-day trial. The jury deliberated... Read More
Five children’s hospital deaths that took place between 2008 and 2009 in New Orleans have now been linked to contaminated linens by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The agency has found that hospital linens were contaminated by Rizopus delemar, a flesh-eating fungus... Read More
A new study suggests there may be a Viagra skin cancer risk for men taking the drug to treat erectile dysfunction or ED. Researchers from Harvard Medical School in Boston found that men who took Viagra had a greater chance for developing melanoma, the most... Read More
Antibiotics are often the go-to remedy parents seek and doctors prescribe when children fall ill. However, an increase in antibiotic infections has raised concern that these drugs are being over-prescribed at alarmingly high rates. Now, researchers have tied antibiotic use to a dangerous and sometimes... Read More
A malpractice claim against Kaiser alleging birth injuries has been settled for $4.1 million. The woman who filed the claim is the great grandmother and guardian ad litem to a seven-year-old boy diagnosed with spastic cerebral palsy and epilepsy. The plaintiff claims a delay of... Read More
A medical misdiagnosis by an emergency room physician led to the death of a six-year-old boy in Dallas, Texas. The parents of that child have now filed a malpractice lawsuit against the physician, hospital and medical center where the child was treated. The parents allege... Read More
A four-year-old girl from Pennsylvania has received a birth injury malpractice award totaling $32.8 million, one of the largest to ever be awarded in her county. The jury reached their verdict after attorneys successfully proved a link between negligence in the delivery room and the... Read More
Eighteen patients may have been exposed to a fatal disease after undergoing brain surgery in the same North Carolina Hospital. Patients of Novant Health Forsythe Medical Center are receiving notification from the hospital that their recent surgeries may have exposed them to an illness known... Read More
