In Crawford County, Wisconsin, a jury awarded the parents of a brain-damaged boy $11.4 million for his injuries. The suit was filed over the negligent care by a nurse and nurse midwife at Gunderson...
There has been a rising trend in the number of flu related deaths in the U.S. amongst 5-17 year-old children due to concurrent staph infections. Generally, more than 200,000 people are hospitalized...
Celiac Disease is a digestive disease that damages the small intestine and interferes with absorption of nutrients from food. The disease can be confused with irritable bowel syndrome, iron...
Starting October 1, Medicare announced it will no longer pay for treatment resulting from medical errors which occurred during a hospital stay. What does this mean to the over 44 million Americans...
Our country is a leader for advanced care. With highly skilled teams and sophisticated technology we are pioneers in treating disease. We must then wonder why colon cancer, a preventable and...
Children are our future, if they make it that far. In this country, medical mistakes happen on a daily basis. In adults, many small medical mistakes have slight impact on a person’s health or life....
Hospitals and physicians not only have a duty to provide competent care, but also to notify the patients if they have been harmed by their negligence. Unfortunately, studies have found that...
According to the SurgeonGeneral,blood clots account for at least 100,000 deaths in the United States each year. Â Are these deaths avoidable? Many say yes. Â That is why the Surgeon General has a new...
Along with providing medical treatments to patients, hospitals have now become notorious for its hazardous conditions because of drug mix-ups, infected incisions, bleeding problems...
No matter how much education or training a doctor has, he or she is still a human being. As all of us know, humans make mistakes. Although some degree of error is essentially inevitable in any...
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