After a 15-day trial, a jury has found in favor of Donald R. Schultz, a former public safety dispatcher for the City of Tonawanda, NY. The jury awarded the 45-year-old man a substantial $9.1 million medical malpractice award after he suffered from severe complications of... Read More

This fall California voters may face a ballot initiative to revise a nearly 40-year-old law that caps medical malpractice damages.  If initiative proponents obtain enough signatures to put the measure on the November ballot, the battle for votes is likely to cost millions and result... Read More

A recent study suggests that doctors prescribe narcotics to more than 14 percent of pregnant women, despite the painkiller pregnancy risk posed to unborn children. Harvard researchers published the results of the study in the journal, Anesthesiology on February 12. Findings noted that doctors are... Read More

Parents of a young Texas boy suffering from cerebral palsy have filed suit against a physician, two nurses and the healthcare facility at which the child was born, alleging that inappropriate use of Pitocin and failure to properly monitor the progression of labor caused severe,... 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

A three-county area in rural Washington is the site of an unsolved birth defects cluster, with at least two dozen babies in the Yakima area born with anencephaly. Health officials are stumped, having reviewed environmental and medical factors that might link the cases. Typically fatal... Read More

After a year-long investigation of the Medford Multicare Center for Living on Long Island, the New York Attorney General’s Office charged nine employees with neglecting their Medicaid patients. The center’s owners are also charged with padding their own bank accounts with millions of dollars intended for... Read More

Results of a recent mammogram screening study suggest the procedure may not actually work to reduce breast cancer mortality rates. The British Medical Journal published the findings in early February, but many professional associations and experts are questioning their merit. Researchers from the Canadian National... Read More