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White-Footed Mouse May Spread Lyme Disease

November 7, 2013

It is well known that the “deer tick” (blacklegged tick) can be a carrier of the bacterium that causes Lyme disease and that deer are known hosts of adult deer ticks. However, the question has been posed as to why there has been a rise in the prevalence of Lyme disease in areas wh[...]

Johnson & Johnson Agrees To Pay More Than $2.2 Billion To Resolve Investigations

November 6, 2013

The U. S. Department of Justice announced on November 4, 2013 that Johnson & Johnson (“J & J”) has agreed to pay in excess of $2.2 billion to resolve civil and criminal investigations relating to J & J’s prescription drugs Risperdal, Invega, and Natrecor. The allegat[...]

How Does The FDA Review Proposed Drug Names?

November 5, 2013

The FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (“CDER”) has received about 126,000 reports of medication errors from 2000 to 2009. Some of the medication errors were due to similarly sounding drugs or similarly appearing drug names. The CDER evaluates the potential for a prop[...]

Zoloft Birth Defect Lawsuits Continue To Be Filed In West Virginia

November 4, 2013

On October 28, 2013, six more lawsuits were filed in Wayne County, West Virginia against the manufacturer of Zoloft (Pfizer Inc.) alleging that the plaintiffs’ babies suffered birth defects as a result of their mothers’ use of Zoloft during their pregnancies. The plaintiffs allege tha[...]

Nevada Supreme Court Hears Medical Malpractice Juror Bias Appeal

November 3, 2013

On October 16, 2013, the Supreme Court of Nevada (“Nevada Supreme Court”) heard oral arguments in an appeal of a medical malpractice verdict in favor of the defendant where one of the jurors had previously exchanged business referrals with the husband of the defendant’s paralegal.[...]

Kaiser Sued Over Access To Mental Health Benefits

November 2, 2013

On October 3, 2013, a lawsuit seeking class-action status was filed against the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan (“Kaiser”) in California by three plaintiffs who allege on their own behalf and on behalf of potentially thousands of other patients that Kaiser is failing to properly treat pa[...]

Study Finds Technology/Equipment Issues Involved In One-Quarter Of Operating Room Errors

November 1, 2013

A study published online on July 25, 2013 in BMJ Quality & Safety found that 1 in 4 operating room errors were due to technology or equipment issues. The researchers found that approximately 15 errors occur during a typical surgical procedure and that failure of equipment accounted for appro[...]

Study Finds That Defensive Medicine Does Not Affect Health Care Costs

October 31, 2013

One of the most noisy cries for medical malpractice tort reform in the United States is that medical providers engage in so-called defensive medicine in states where medical malpractice tort reform has not been enacted because they fear that if they do not practice defensive medicine, they will be [...]

New Hampshire Effort To Modify Unfair Medical Malpractice Tort Reforms

October 30, 2013

The New Hampshire House Judiciary Committee recently voted 9 to 7 to support changing New Hampshire’s “early offer” law in medical malpractice claims that health care lobbyists pushed through the New Hampshire Legislature in 2012. Despite the New Hampshire Governor’s veto[...]

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[...]

Pennsylvania Hospital Patient Care Whistleblower Fired, Then Sues

October 28, 2013

A 13-year employee of a regional hospital in Pennsylvania, who at times worked as director of acute care services and quality project coordinator, filed a federal lawsuit against her former employer on October 22, 2013, alleging that she was told to leave the hospital premises on October 26, 2012 a[...]

New York Supreme Court Holds Pharmacist Not Liable For Filling Prescription Precisely As Directed

October 27, 2013

In a case decided by the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Appellate Division, Fourth Judicial Department (“New York Supreme Court”) on October 4, 2013, the New York Supreme Court held that a pharmacist cannot be held liable for negligence in the absence of an allegation that he o[...]

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