Medical Malpractice

• New FDA Drug Information Rules

  Ken Margolin | December 08, 2006 5:00 PM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA

  Earlier this year, the federal Food and Drug Administration passed new rules designed to make it easier for doctors to get essential information from the inserts inside packages of prescription drugs. The rules change reflected an understanding that the growing complexity of information presented in package inserts, was becoming confusing even to physicians. Serious medication errors were a...

• Medical errors are preventable: Tips to keep you safe at the hospital

  Rebecca Castell | November 29, 2006 2:00 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  A recent article in the Washington Post points out some scary statistics regarding the rate of human error in health care settings. Human error -- whether it stems from overworked and exhausted medical interns or other causes -- is a leading source of medical errors that kill as many as 98,000 Americans a year, according to the Institute of Medicine (IOM). The problem is particularly acute in...

• Personal Injury Appeals

  John Cooper | November 22, 2006 12:35 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA

  A wise, old personal injury attorney once said "The injured person doesn't make any money on appeal."The reason that appeal is bad for the plaintiff is that the best an appellate court can ever do is to reaffirm something good that has already happened in the trial court. If an injured person or a family whose loved one has been killed due to someone else's fault gets a big verdict, the...

• Deadly Hospital Infections

  Ken Margolin | November 14, 2006 7:00 AM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA

  The prevalence of drug-resistant, hospital-acquired infections should still be a cause for concern among doctors and patients, according to a recent study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The CDC's press release on the study's findings discloses that over the past 30 years, "staph" infections, acquired in hospitals and other healthcare facilities such as nursing homes,...

• GlaxoSmithKline Settles Paxil Lawsuit

  Beth Janicek | November 09, 2006 3:39 PM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  GlaxoSmithKline agreed to pay $63.8 million to settle a class action lawsuit accusing it of promoting its antidepressant Paxil for use by children and adolescents while withholding negative information about the drug's safety and effectiveness.United States residents who bought Paxil or Paxil CR, a controlled-release version of the drug, for their children could receive full refunds if they have...

• Deceased Rat = $1.7 million. Deceased Human = $250,000?

  Robert Wolf | November 01, 2006 12:13 PM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  Here's to hoping I find a dead rat in my salad sometime soon! If I find a dead rat in a salad, I have the potential to recover $1.7 million for my "emotional and physical pain and suffering," not to mention my "change in dining habits." If one of my parents were to unfortunately die as a result of medical malpractice of a nursing home (for example), then the most the family could recover is...

• FDA Issues Nationwide Notification of Recall of Certain Guidant Implantable Defibrillators and Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Defibrillators

  Ed Smith | October 26, 2006 4:19 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA

  FDA is notifying health care providers and patients that the Guidant Corporation is recalling certain of its implantable defibrillators and cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators. These devices can develop an internal short circuit without warning, resulting in failure to deliver a shock when needed.

• High MD

  Jeremy Thurman | October 25, 2006 3:52 PM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY

  I've read some recent articles about the high rate of drug abuse among doctors. As you know, medicine is readibly accessible to doctors and that may in part be part of the problem. I've heard horror stories over the years about doctors operating while intoxicated on alcohol or drugs and it has be wondering how prevelant this is. I encourage anyone who might suspect this to hire an attorney...

• The Big Lie

  Noble McIntyre | September 25, 2006 4:11 PM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK

  As I embark on my first blog, I want to address the issue that is constantly in the forefront of the political landscape of Oklahoma. Whether you call it tort reform, legal reform, or more appropriately lies for fund raising reform, politicians in Oklahoma have emblazoned the public with inaccurate, false, and deliberately misleading statements. So what is the truth? Politicians are...

• Donor Screening Questions Continue

  Paul Grieco | September 20, 2006 10:47 AM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  As more and more evidence is discovered in the on going human tissue cases, it becomes apparent that proper screening of potential donors was not performed and in many cases relevant information was either ignored or altered. Such conduct on the part of those involved in the human tissue industry has put at risk thousands of patients who thought they were benefiting from receiving transplanted...