Some companies specialize in working for insurance companies to put pressure on injured people to pay back money that the insurance company paid for medical bills.
An article in the magazine Nature describes a break-through discovery that the brain is connected to the body’s immune system through tiny lymphatic vessels that no one previously knew existed.
A growing concern in the American health care system is a lack of nurses, often the result of hospitals putting profit margins ahead of patient safety.
A troubling study shows that more than 20% of melanoma patients on medicare experience a delay in receiving surgical treatment.
Delaying diagnosis and treatment of kidney stones results in increased risk for both complications and necessary additional care
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.