When Should You Contact A Medical Malpractice Lawyer?
June 22, 2011
When should you contact a medical malpractice lawyer? We at medicalmalpracticelawyers.com get this question asked in many different forms and pretty often. The conversation typically starts with the statement, “I don’t know if have a medical malpractice claim but…” Some of[...]
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Childhood Food Allergies More Than Previously Reported
June 21, 2011
A new study has found that the prevalence and severity of childhood food allergies in the United States were more than previously reported and that they often resulted in severe symptoms and in allergies to multiple foods. Based on a survey of adults involving 38,480 children from June, 20[...]
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Recent Cancer Statistics
June 20, 2011
The American Cancer Society has issued its recent annual report regarding cancer death rates in the United States. It is projected for the year 2011 that there will be 1,596,670 new cases of cancers diagnosed with 571,950 cancer deaths. Improvements in cancer prevention, earlier detection, and bett[...]
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Preventing Birth Defects
June 15, 2011
While not all birth defects are preventable, there are certain things a woman planning to become pregnant or a woman already pregnant can do to lower the risks of certain birth defects. One of the simplest and most beneficial proactive steps that a woman planning to become pregnant or already preg[...]
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New Drugs For Melanoma Patients
June 6, 2011
Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer. Failure to timely diagnose melanoma is often fatal. More than 68,000 people were diagnosed with melanoma in 2010 and about 8,700 died from melanoma. The standard chemotherapy drug, dacarbazine, which is the only FDA-approved drug for melanoma, is ef[...]
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E. Coli
June 4, 2011
“E. coli” is short for Escherichia coli, which is a naturally occurring and common bacterium in the lower intestinal tracts of humans and other warm-blooded animals. There are many hundreds of strains of E. coli that reside in the gut and that are harmless and even essential for good[...]
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Misdiagnosis Of Lyme Disease
June 2, 2011
We received such a positive response to our recent blog regarding Lyme disease (posted on May 25, 2011) that we decided to further blog about the disease. Lyme Disease Statistics According to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), from 1992 to 2006 there were a tot[...]
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Medical Malpractice Claims In Iowa — Official Report
May 29, 2011
According to the Iowa Medical Malpractice Annual Report for Calendar Year 2009, the average payments of benefits plus allocated loss adjustment expenses for all closed claims was about $128,000 for 2009, and the average incurred losses and allocated loss adjustment expenses for all open claims was [...]
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Medical Malpractice Claims In Massachusetts — Official Report
May 28, 2011
The December 31, 2008 Medical Malpractice Insurance In The Massachusetts Market Report reported that the total Massachusetts medical malpractice premiums increased from $198 million in 2001 to $301 million in 2007 (an increase of over 50% in six years). Over the past few years, Massachusetts med[...]
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