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New Analysis Of Relationship Between Worldwide Cesarean Delivery Rates And Maternal And Neonatal Mortality Rates

December 12, 2015

A recent analysis of worldwide Cesarean delivery rates found that the optimal cesarean delivery rate in relation to maternal and neonatal mortality was approximately 19 cesarean deliveries per 100 live births (national cesarean delivery rates of up to 19 per 100 live births were associated with lowe[...]

Pradaxa Reversal Agent Approved

November 3, 2015

In 2010, the FDA approved the prescription blood-thinning drug Pradaxa (dabigatran) to prevent stroke and systemic blood clots in patients with atrial fibrillation, as well as for the treatment and prevention of deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism. On October 16, 2015, the FDA granted acc[...]

Recent Study Analyzed Patients’ Perspective On Adverse Medical And Surgical Events

October 6, 2015

The findings of a study published on June 19, 2015 in the journal BMJ Quality & Safety involving 450 respondents to an online survey of patients and families regarding adverse medical and surgical events, who also provided written narratives in addition to filling out the quantitative s[...]

New Study Of Diagnostic Errors Found That They Are Persistent And Cause Patient Harm

September 23, 2015

In a study published on September 22, 2015 by The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine entitled, Improving Diagnosis In Health Care, the study’s authors concluded that diagnostic errors (inadequate or delayed diagnoses) “persist throughout all settings of care and [...]

Johns Hopkins University Sued For $1B For STD Studies Conducted In Guatemala 70 Years Ago

April 7, 2015

On April 1, 2015, a lawsuit was filed in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City against Johns Hopkins University, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Bristol-Myers Squibb for their alleged part in U.S. government studies conducted in the 1940s in Guatemala that allegedly involved infecting hundreds of p[...]

Recent Study Focused On Reducing Infections In Nursing Homes

March 26, 2015

In a study recently published online in JAMA Internal Medicine, the researchers found that a multimodal targeted infection program (“TIP”) implemented in nursing homes reduces the overall prevalence of multidrug-resistant organisms (“MDROs”) and infections in nursing home r[...]

Defensive Medicine Study: Cancer Patients Make Clinically Inappropriate Demands In Only 1% Of Encounters

March 16, 2015

One of the arguments often raised in support of imposing restrictive tort reforms on medical malpractice victims is that doctors are forced to practice “defensive medicine” otherwise (that is, doctors order medical tests that are not medically necessary in order to avoid medical malpr[...]

New CDC Study Finds C. Difficile Infections May Be Acquired From Doctors’ Offices

February 28, 2015

Clostridium difficile (C. difficile or C. diff) is a serious infectious disease that causes inflammation of the colon that leads to deadly diarrhea. There are nearly 500,000 C. diff infections in the United States every year (more than 100,000 of these infections developed among residents of U.S[...]

CDC’s Shocking New Autism Data

March 28, 2014

On March 27, 2014, the CDC released new data regarding autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the United States based on a review of records of 8-year-olds (more than 5,300) in certain areas of Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, Utah, and Wis[...]

Study Shows Conservative Treatment Just As Good As Surgery For Certain Knee Pain

December 27, 2013

In a Finnish study appearing in the December 26, 2013 edition of The New England Journal of Medicine, the researchers reported that the outcomes for study participants who had arthroscopic partial meniscectomy were no better than for study participants who had a “sham” surgical pr[...]

New Study Finds New Doctors Are Discourteous

October 29, 2013

The results of an observational study conducted by Johns Hopkins investigators regarding new doctors (first year interns at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore) that was published this month online in the Journal of Hospital Medicine found that t[...]

Study Finds Premarin Linked To Higher Risk Of Clots

October 2, 2013

A study published on September 30, 2013 in JAMA Internal Medicine found that women who were taking Premarin (conjugated equine estrogen) for menopause had double the risk (odds ratio, 2.08) of developing venous thrombosis (clots in the veins) than woman who took estradiol, both of which are oral es[...]

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