Medical Negligence

Bloomberg News provides an update on the legal case related to Johnson & Johnson’s Pinnacle hip implants, noting a lawyer told jurors that the company’s “bid to convince doctors the metal-on-metal version of its...

Survive your hospital stay             Patient harm in hospitals may be the nations third leading cause of death, trailing only heart disease and cancer

Several plaintiffs' attorneys in Transvaginal Mesh litigation have entered into a settlement agreement in principle with Endo Pharmaceuticals and American Medical Systems for approximately $830 million. The resolution, reported by multiple news sources on...

The New York Times reports on its front page from New Orleans about four children who died at Children’s Hospital “of various causes between August 2008 and July 2009 during an outbreak of a...

The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports that five years “after five patients died with a deadly fungal infection they received from hospital linens, Children’s Hospital officials on Thursday began contacting the families to inform them...

A former radiology technician from Georgia has been sentenced to jail for faking the mammogram results of more than 1,200 women. Fox News says: "Rachael Rapraeger will spend six months in prison. She pleaded guilty...

Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. The University of Toledo Medical Center admits a nurse threw away a brother's kidney before it could be transplanted into his sister last year, but nevertheless is asking...