“Everyone will experience one meaningful diagnostic error in their lifetime,” Dr. John Ball recently told NBC News. Ball, who chairs the Committee on Diagnostic Error in Medicine, helped draft a report on the alarming rates of late or misdiagnosis in U.S. healthcare settings – the consequences... Read More

A bill involving the statute of limitations on medical malpractice lawsuits in New York has died before coming to a vote on the state’s senate floor. The bill, known as Lavern’s Law, was introduced after a single mother of a special needs child died of... Read More

The owner of an imaging firm in Owings Mills, MD who has already been indicted for $7.5 million in health care fraud, has now been charged in the deaths of four patients who allegedly died because he employed workers not qualified to read medical imaging.... Read More

A married couple from Contra Costa County in California has filed a medical misdiagnosis lawsuit against the United States for allegedly being put through an emotional whirlwind of embarrassment, shame, jealousy and mistrust for being misdiagnosed with an STD. The plaintiffs filed their complaint on January... Read More

Countless medical errors committed each year by healthcare providers jeopardize patient safety and claim lives. About 80 percent of the most serious types of medical errors committed by U.S. healthcare providers stem from miscommunication among providers, most notably during patient handoffs. Now, a recent study... Read More

Earlier this month, a jury in Hamilton County awarded an Ohio woman over $1.2 million in her medical misdiagnosis lawsuit. The jury found that the doctor who treated the plaintiff, Dr. Michael Draznik, acted negligently in waiting too long to do appropriate tests. The jury... 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 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