Medical Malpractice

• California Hospital Mortality Report Wrangles Rural Nor Cal Hospital

  Todd Slaughter | January 28, 2009 12:42 PM | 0 CommentsRedding, CA

  We don't kill stoke patients! That was the headline quote in the Redding Record Searchlight from Mayers Memorial Hospital CEO Katharine Ann Campbell, responding to a recent hospital mortality report...

• Antibacterial Wipes may Spread Drug-resistant Bacteria

  Todd Slaughter | June 09, 2008 4:16 PM | 0 CommentsRedding, CA

  A recent study conducted at Cardiff University in Wales evaluated the efficacy of disinfectant laden wipes in the potentially bacterial infestedenvironment of an ICU of a hospital. These wipes are...

• Medical Group Hires Firm to Review Medical Malpractice Rates

  Christina Cole | December 19, 2006 10:29 PM | 0 CommentsChico, CA

  The Florida Medical Association has hired a firm to review medical malpractice insurance rates that a state consumer advocate has accused as being too expensive.The South Carolina firm, Bartlett Actuarial Group, was asked to review the finding of the consumer advocate, according to the Medical Association. "We are obviously worried about the rates," said Lisette Mariner, spokeswoman for the...

• Guidant Halts Use Of Defibrillators

  Ed Smith | October 26, 2006 4:15 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA

  Medical device maker Guidant Corporation has announced a series of recalls culminating in a September 22, 2005 recall, recalling nearly 100,000 implanted defibrillators and pacemakers because of potential electrical malfunctions. The defect essentially places patients at risk as a result of an internal short circuit which comes without warning and can either result in a failure to deliver a...

• Human Tissue Recall from Biomedical Tissue Services

  Ed Smith | October 17, 2006 11:17 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA

  Every year there are approximately one and a half million new surgical procedures known as Allografts - surgical transfers of bone, skin, tendons, and other tissues in which tissues from cadavers are transplanted into patients.Recently, the New Jersey tissue company known as Biomedical Tissue Services was criminally indicted for illegally harvesting human tissue from corpses. Biomedical then...

• Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Settled for $1.6 Million

  Randy Walton | September 27, 2007 2:48 PM | 0 CommentsSan Diego County, CA

  An Illinois hospital and one of its doctors have settled a malpractice lawsuit for $1.6 million. The suit was filed after an infant died of severe constipation.Will County Circuit Judge Gerald Kinney approved the settlement Wednesday, more than three years after Shequetta Wilson filed the suit.Her son, Noah Wilson, was 5 months old when he died Sept. 26, 2002, of septic shock from untreated...

• Iowa Woman Awarded $13.5 Million in Cerebral Palsy Case

  Shannon Weidemann | September 08, 2007 8:41 AM | 0 CommentsSan Diego County, CA

  A woman that gave birth in 2003 has sued the hospital where she gave birth for medical malpractice because she believes they did not properly monitor her son during labor. The boy ended up having cerebral palsy. The jury in the case agreed and awarded the woman $13.5 Million. The boy was born at Broadlawns Medical Center. As doctors prepared to perform a c-section on Deb Gardner, she says...

• Guidant Lawsuit Money Set Aside

  Staff Writer | August 30, 2006 2:24 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA

  Boston Scientific announced earlier this month that it has set aside $381 million in anticipation of lawsuits stemming from faulty Guidant defibrillators and pacemakers. Boston Sci inherited Guidant's legal problems when it bought the company earlier this year for $27 billion.Included in the fallout are about 72 product liability class action lawsuits and about 477 individual lawsuits. The suits...

• Report: FDA Fails To Monitor Clinical Trials

  Scott Barber | September 28, 2007 10:49 AM | 0 CommentsSan Diego County, CA

  A report by the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services, Daniel R. Levinson, assails the FDA for failing to ensure the health of patients in clinical trials. According to the report, the FDA could not accurately determine how many trials were being conducted, audited less than 1% of all testing sites and, when an audit found problems, supervisors downgraded the findings...

• Medical Malpractice

  Rick Patterson | January 05, 2007 1:56 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  Medical malpractice is an act or omission by a health care provider which deviates from accepted standards of practice in the medical community and which causes injury to the patient. The American Academy of Family Physicians looks to a study entitled "Learning from Malpractice Claims about Negligent, Adverse Events in Primary Care in the United States", in suggesting that the medical community...