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Study Found Nursing Home Residents With Vision Loss Linked To Higher Cognitive Impairment

September 1, 2026

A study that analyzed data from 9,935 nursing home residents aged 65 and older with baseline visits in the Western North Carolina Nursing Homes Study (WNCNHS) found that cognitive loss prevalence increased progressively across worsening vision categories: 52.2% among residents with normal vision, 58[...]

U.S. Supreme Court Issues Opinion In Maryland Mental Health Malpractice Case

August 31, 2026

T. M. alleged that she has a medical condition that causes changes in her mental status, including psychosis, when she ingests gluten. In March 2023, T. M. accidentally ingested gluten and was taken to the emergency room at Baltimore Washington Medical Center, where, after an administrative hearing [...]

Urgent Medical Device Recall For Bolton Medical’s Relay Pro Thoracic Stent Graft System

August 30, 2026

The FDA is aware that Bolton Medical has issued an Urgent Medical Device Recall (Correction) notice providing updated use instructions for all Relay Pro Thoracic Stent Graft System, N4: Non-Bare Stent Configuration 32mm and above. The notice also recommends customers consider using alternative stent[...]

Pennsylvania Appellate Court Reinstates Emergency Room Mental Health Malpractice Case Against Hospital

August 29, 2026

On January 5, 2024, Alexandro DaSilva went to the emergency room at the defendant hospital and stayed into the next day. The nursing staff evaluated him and noted his unusual behavior and him making very odd statements. When Alexandro’s nurse left him to care for another patient, Alexandro walked [...]

Diagnostic Errors Leading Cause Of Malpractice Claims Against Radiologists

August 28, 2026

A published study entitled Malpractice litigation in diagnostic radiology with special focus on cases in the abdomen and pelvis: A comprehensive analysis from a national legal database analyzed medical malpractice lawsuits filed in the United States from 2008 to 2018 in which the defendant was a rad[...]

OIG Report: Medicare Advantage Organizations Denied Prior Authorization Requests For Nursing Home Care At Higher Rates, And Overturned 97% Of Denials When Appealed

August 27, 2026

OIG had in the past raised concerns that Medicare Advantage organizations’ (MAOs’) use of prior authorization can in some cases result in denials and delays in access to needed care for enrollees. MAOs that inappropriately deny care are not delivering the full value that taxpayers pay them to pr[...]

Abbott Agrees To Pay $670M To Resolve 2,000 Preterm Baby Formula NEC Claims

August 26, 2026

As stated in a press release issued by Abbott on August 20, 2026, Abbott has reached agreements with three law firms to resolve the Gill case and claims involving approximately 2,000 other individuals relating to the company’s specialty formulas for preterm infants. In July 2024, a St. Louis[...]

AMA Votes To Fund Studies Comparing Care From Physicians Versus Nurse Practitioners (NPs) And Physician Assistants (PAs)

August 25, 2026

On June 9, 2026, the AMA House of Delegates, concerned that unsupervised nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) provide patient care that is not as good or safe as that provided by physicians, voted to fund independent studies that compare outcomes. The studies will look at patient[...]

$7.7M Connecticut Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Yale For Death Of Retired Doctor

August 24, 2026

In June 2026, a Connecticut medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $7.7 million for the two daughters of a retired New Haven doctor who died in Yale New Haven’s care in 2020 as a result of medical malpractice, according to the jury’s findings. Dr. Jacqueline Satchell [...]

Georgia Appellate Court Affirms Defendant Medical Malpractice Doctors Were Not Employees Of Defendant Hospital

August 23, 2026

In September 2020, decedent James Lewis’s surviving children filed suit in Fulton County Superior Court against more than a dozen defendants, including Emory Healthcare, Inc. and various providers at an Emory Hospital, WHS, Windy Hill Hospital, Kennestone Hospital, Inc., Nazim Syed, M.D., and Nagi[...]

Doctor Involved In Operating Room Death Of Alabama Man Indicted

August 22, 2026

The Office of the State Attorney for the First Judicial Circuit announced that a Walton County Grand Jury has returned an indictment charging Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky with second-degree manslaughter in the August 2024 death of a 70‑year‑old man from Muscle Shoals, Alabama. The indictment follows an[...]

PT Practice Owners Sentenced To Jail For Medicare Fraud

August 21, 2026

Two residents of Erie County, Pennsylvania, each have been sentenced in federal court to six years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay a $250,000 fine on their convictions of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and healthcare fraud. United States District J[...]

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