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

Findings from a recent study imply that hospitals are making antibiotic prescription errors because physicians too willing to write out prescriptions. The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America reported that unnecessary prescriptions may have cost an overwhelming $163 million. “The overuse of antibiotics is an... Read More

A family from Calgary, Canada has filed a cerebral palsy lawsuit that demands $12 million in compensatory damages for their young daughter’s medical complications. The birth injury complaint claims that doctors were negligent during the labor and delivery of the now two-year-old toddler. The plaintiffs... Read More

In the blink of an eye, a comedy icon made her final curtain call – pronounced dead just days after undergoing a routine endoscopy procedure at the Upper East Side clinic Yorkville Endoscopy. The procedure, which is typically outpatient and requires little to no recovery... Read More

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 450,000 victims of burn injury were logged in 2014, and of those, 40,000 required hospitalization. The physical recovery process for first, second or third-degree burns varies in nature and length, but with swift medical... 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

On July 29, 2014, the family of a minor child allegedly injured during childbirth filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. Among other allegations, the complaint asserts that the defendants – a certified nurse midwife and the Knoxville Community Hospital... Read More

For quite some time now, consumer advocates have argued that the current California medical malpractice law is unfair to families because it severely limits the amount of non-economic damages that may be awarded by a jury. The outdated medical malpractice cap has hampered verdicts and... Read More