Newt Gingrich’s Views On Medical Malpractice
December 12, 2011
What Is Newt Gingrich’s Position On Medical Malpractice Claims In The United States? In his opinion published in The New York Times on February 21, 2010, Republican Presidential Hopeful (and current leading Republican contender) Newt Gingrich wrote as follows: CAT scans, blood tests, ultrasou[...]
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Massachusetts Medical Malpractice Verdict For 3-Year-Old’s Death
December 10, 2011
The largest medical malpractice verdict in Massachusetts during 2009 involved a 3-year-old boy who died in December, 2004, unable to walk or speak since he underwent a cardiac catherization 18 months earlier. It was alleged that the doctors at a Massachusetts hospital injected too much contrast d[...]
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Vermont Medical Malpractice Statistics
December 9, 2011
Vermont is among the states with the fewest medical malpractice claims. According to an official report dated December 15, 2005, the following conclusions regarding medical malpractice and medical malpractice claims in Vermont were made: Vermont medical malpractice costs represent less than 1% of [...]
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Drugging Our Nursing Home Elderly: Is It Medical Malpractice?
December 6, 2011
In testimony before the U.S. Senate’s Special Committee on Aging on November 30, 2011, the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) provided chilling evidence that elderly nursing home patients with dementia are being given antipsychotic drugs for reason[...]
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How May Human Stem Cell Research Help People In The Future?
October 6, 2011
By researching human embryonic stem cells, there is increasing hope that one day human embryonic stem cell therapy may help alleviate the pain and suffering caused by many cancers, heart disease, diabetes, and many other human afflictions. Understanding Differentiation One major area of stem cell re[...]
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What Are Stem Cells?
October 4, 2011
Stem cells are cells that have the ability to divide for indefinite periods in the laboratory and to give rise to specialized cells. Stem cells are different from other types of cells because they are unspecialized cells that can renew themselves through cell division (sometimes after long periods[...]
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U.S. Medical School Graduates In 2010
September 26, 2011
One of the many complaints lodged by medical malpractice tort reformists is that doctors are fleeing the practice of medicine because of their fear of “frivolous” medical malpractice lawsuits. The fear-mongers warn that there will soon be not enough doctors in the United States because[...]
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