A disturbing state report indicates that adverse events in Connecticut hospitals have doubled since 2012, with major increases in the rate of medication errors, patient falls and perforations during surgeries. This rise in hospital malpractice is largely attributed to new reporting on pressure ulcers –... Read More

In a groundbreaking new holding out of the Eleventh Circuit (which covers coastal jurisdictions including Florida, Georgia and Alabama), doctors and nurses aboard cruise ships are no longer immune from liability for medical malpractice in the event a traveler seeks treatment on the ship. The... Read More

Nadege Neim won a $1.4 million verdict last year, after a jury determined she was the victim of hospital medical errors. Her obstetrician removed a healthy ovary and fallopian tube from the right side of her body after she went into the hospital to have... Read More

About 160,000 bariatric surgeries are done each year, according to US News & World Report. What we know is this: Bariatric surgery results in greater weight loss than other, nonsurgical treatments. It is also an effective way to reverse type 2 diabetes in obese patients.... Read More

The rate of Clostridium difficile or “C. diff” infections in U.S. hospitals doubled between 2001 and 2010, according to a recently published study. According to the study, C. diff infected hospital-bound patients at a rate of 4.5 per 1,000 in 2001; by 2010, that rate... 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

Preventable surgery deaths have increased 5 percent a year from 1998 to 2010, according to a new study published in the August 19 edition of the British Journal of Urology International. Researchers from the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit reviewed Nationwide Inpatient Sample hospital discharge... Read More

The recent release of a report by Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn entitled “Death, Delay, and Dismay at the VA” has added fuel to the fire over growing criticism of rampant administrative problems at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The report offers damning evidence... Read More