After the recent outbreaks of infection from unclean duodenoscopes in Seattle and LA, the FDA states that cleaning must be improved to keep patients safe
A tiny device the size of a grain of rice will soon be used to deliver cancer drugs to tumors. The hope is that it will help medical providers learn which drugs work best on the tumor so that they may better target therapy.
Confidentiality agreements are commonplace in settlement agreements with doctors and hospitals, in large part to protect the reputation of the defendant. Unfortunately, this can have the negative effect of preventing the public from knowing the mistakes and wrongdoing that resulted in the lawsuit and settlement.
Osteoporosis is not only a woman’s health issue. Men suffer consequences from it less overall, but when they do the consequences are often more severe.
A new book is out about the lives of nurses in America. One important takeaway: don’t go to a teaching hospital in July if you can help it.
A new study includes guidelines for hospital stays of health term newborn infants. While such guidelines purport to not define the standard of care for a doctor or hospital in such situations, juries can be persuaded that they should have been followed in a given case.
A lack of consensus about whether to screen men for prostate cancer highlights the difficulty of using guidelines in malpractice cases when there is a significant difference of opinion in the medical community.
A recent article in Politico outlines the growing issue of electronic medical records leading to lawsuits.