A Manhattan plastic surgeon has reached an out-of-court settlement to pay a $2.3 million liposuction malpractice settlement to the family of a patient who died from surgery complications. Dr. Sharon Giese operated on 32-year-old patient Adriana Porras on June 25, 2009. Two days later Porras... Read More

Tattoos, both the temporary and permanent variety, have been an increasing trend among Americans of all ages in recent years. Perhaps one of the most popular ways to get inked without the long-term commitment is with a henna tattoo, made from the paste of a... 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

A new California medical malpractice initiative has met the criteria for inclusion in the November ballot.  It would raise the cap on malpractice damages, institute drug and alcohol tests and other regulations for physicians, and stipulate the mandatory use of an online database when prescribing... Read More

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

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 new study has revealed the extraordinary cost of low value medical procedures, or procedures that beneficiaries may not necessarily need and that do not provide significant benefits. The study was conducted by researchers from Harvard Medical School and it was recently published in JAMA... Read More

A birth injury malpractice lawsuit was filed in Massachusetts against physicians whose alleged negligence led to severe brain damage and other injuries for an infant, now seven years old. According to the complaint filed on March 29 (PPA Sharonda Moeng v Herlighy et al, #... Read More