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Patients, and their families, who are facing heart surgery are usually given materials on what to expect after the surgery. This list will state that complications may arise, including heart attack,...

According to a study released this week, U.S. women’s life expectancy is declining significantly. Researchers blamed the decrease in women’s life expectancy on high blood pressure as well as chronic...

As costs for medical malpractice insurance continues to increase for obstetricians, they way they handle their patients and delivering babies may change. Premiums may run as high as $200,000 a year. And that may force doctors to hand off their patients to doctors on staff at the hospital when they go into labor. For expectant moms it means their gynecologists, after shepherding them through...

A doctor in Plainview, New York is being investigated after reports that he may have used needles cross-contaminated with mulitple patients. The case may be a major instance of medical malpractice. The doctor reused syringes and may have infected hundreds of patients with a multitude of blood borne illnesses. On Nov. 10, the State Health Department notified 628 of Dr. Finkelstein's...

Drug-induced diseases occur presently with ever increasing frequency. According to the medical public interest website WorstPills.com of Public Citizen, each year nearly 16,000 injuries from auto accidents are induced by benzodiazepines or tricyclic antidipressants. That is a shocking figure. Older Americans suffer annually from nearly 32,000 hip fracture accidents that are drug-induced,...

A 2-year-old boy is allowed to bring forth a medical malpractice suit against the doctor that misdiagnosed his father a month after he was conceived according to an appeals court. A doctor did not correctly identify colon cancer and instead diagnosed it as diverticulitis. Judge Michael Gibbs should not have dismissed the suit brought on behalf of Joseph Brusa Jr. of Delavan whose father,...