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FDA Issues Safety Communication Regarding The Stryker Wingspan Stent System

May 15, 2019

The FDA issued a Safety Communcation on April 25, 2019 entitled, “Use of the Stryker Wingspan Stent System Outside of Approved Indications Leads to an Increased Risk of Stroke or Death: FDA Safety Communication” in which the FDA warned: “a very specific group of patients, consisten[...]

Most Kidney Stone Medical Malpractice Cases End In Favor Of The Defendants

May 13, 2019

An article presented during the 2019 meeting of the American Urological Association (AUA) reported “Most kidney stone-related malpractice suits end in a verdict in favor of the physician or a hospital, even after appeal.” The investigators analyzed 33 appealed medical malpractice cases i[...]

CMS Revised Its Nursing Home Compare Rating System In April 2019 – 37% Of Nursing Homes Lost One Or More Stars

May 12, 2019

In April 2019, the Centers For Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) made several changes to the Nursing Home Compare website and the Five-Star Quality Rating System, which affected all domains of the rating system. CMS published the changes in its “Design for Nursing Home Compare Five-Star [...]

Today’s 3,000th Consecutive Daily Blog Posting

May 7, 2019

Today, we celebrate a great achievement – our 3,000th consecutive daily blog posting! Yes, for 3,000 days in a row, we have posted to the blog on our website, www.medicalmalpracticelawyers.com. All of our past (and future) blog postings are fully searchable by word or phrase – it’s[...]

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) Are A Curse To Both Health Care Providers And Patients

April 16, 2019

Kaiser Health News (KHN) recently reported in an article entitled Death By 1,000 Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong the results of “a months-long joint investigation by KHN and Fortune has found that instead of streamlining medicine, the government’s EHR [Electronic Health Re[...]

VA Nursing Home Inspection Reports Show Veterans Being Harmed

April 12, 2019

USA Today reports that “from April through December 2018, inspectors from a private contractor cited 52 out of 99 VA nursing homes for deficiencies that caused “actual harm” to veterans. In three facilities, they found veterans’ health and safety in “immediate jeopardy,” and in eight[...]

U.S. Physicians With Multiple Medical Malpractice Claims Not Likely To Relocate But More Likely To Switch To Smaller Practice

April 7, 2019

An article published in The New England Journal of Medicine on March 28, 2019 entitled “Changes in Practice among Physicians with Malpractice Claims” concluded: “Physicians with multiple malpractice claims were no more likely to relocate geographically than those with no claims, bu[...]

Study Of Pediatric Medical Malpractice Claims

April 1, 2019

The Doctors Company, which is the largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurer in the United States, analyzed 1,215 written demands for payment (medical malpractice claims) filed on behalf of pediatric patients that closed from 2008 through 2017. The study included all medical malpractice cla[...]

New Study Finds Hospital Births During The Night Or On Weekends Are Riskier

March 17, 2019

A new study published in Risk Analysis: An International Journal entitled “Clinical capital and the risk of maternal labor and delivery complications: Hospital scheduling, timing and cohort turnover effects” found that the quantity of delivery complications in hospitals are substantially[...]

New Study Finds No Link Between MMR Vaccine And Autism

March 16, 2019

A study published on March 5, 2019 in the medical journal Annals of Internal Medicine entitled “Measles, Mumps, Rubella Vaccination and Autism: A Nationwide Cohort Study” was designed to evaluate whether the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine increases the risk for autism in children,[...]

FDA Warns About Young Donor Plasma Infusions Promoted As Unproven Treatment For Varying Conditions

March 15, 2019

The FDA Commissioner and the Director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research issued a statement on February 19, 2019 cautioning consumers against receiving young donor plasma infusions that are promoted as unproven treatment for varying conditions. The conditions range from norm[...]

Brachial Plexus Birth Injury Statistics In The United States

March 14, 2019

For every 1,000 live births in the United States, there are 0.5 to 3 brachial plexus birth injuries. Almost 30% of those with brachial plexus birth injury (“BPBI”) have permanent neurological deficits or impairments. Over the course of decades, fluctuating rates of BPBI have been reporte[...]

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