Archive for the ‘Medical Malpractice / Litigation’ Category
Friday, April 11th, 2008
The Kansas Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments in a case regarding the authority of a Sedgwick County, Kan., grand jury to enforce a subpoena of medical records of 2,000 women who obtained abortions after their 21st week of pregnancy at physician George Tiller's Wichita clinic, Women's Health Care Services, ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
Researchers from all over the world have been carrying out paternity tests regularly. Samples are usually collected from mouth and saliva cells to carry out the DNA analysis.The team of Dr José Antonio Lorente Acosta (director of the Laboratory of Genetic Identification of the University of Granada) carries out these ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
A 33 year old nurse convicted of a string of offences has been struck off the Nursing & Midwifey Council (NMC) register for breaking the NMC's Code of Professional Conduct. Kevin Murray, 33, was struck off at an NMC Conduct and Competence Committee hearing in London on Friday April 4th ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
A prison nurse has been struck off the register after having an inappropriate relationship with a prisoner.Deborah Killiana Pangeti, a 35 year old mental health nurse from Hedge End, Southampton was employed in the Healthcare Centre at HMP Winchester in 2007 when she kissed a prisoner and performed an act ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
A 64-year old nurse from North Bretton, Peterborough has been struck off the Nursing & Midwifery Council register following the outcome of a hearing by the regulatory body in London on Friday, 4 April 2008. Josephine Nash was employed as a Mental Health nurse by Wentworth Croft Nursing Home in ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Patient safety incidents cost the federal Medicare program $8.8 billion and resulted in 238,337 potentially preventable deaths during 2004 through 2007, according to HealthGrades' fifth annual Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study. HealthGrades' analysis of 41 million Medicare patient records found that patients treated at top-performing hospitals had, on ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
The New York Times on Sunday examined Johnson & Johnson's use of the legal doctrine of preemption to defend against claims that the birth control patch Ortho Evra causes blood clots or other adverse effects. Under this legal argument, if a product's safety has been approved through a federal regulatory ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Pennsylvania: A tax-subsidized program that helps Pennsylvania physicians pay medical malpractice insurance premiums lapsed on Monday, the AP/Philadelphia Inquirer reports. The five-year, $1 billion MCare abatement program was established in 2003 and provides subsidies to more than 35,000 physicians and other medical professionals. The subsidy on average has saved primary ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
When concerned with safety issues related to their care, patientsprefer to challenge nurses rather than doctors, according to a studyreleased on April 3, 2008 in the BMJ Specialty Journal Qualityand Safety in Health Care. Additionally, women were found tobe more assertive in this respect than men. These findings were determined ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Summarizes of recent news about medical malpractice developments in two states appear below.New York: A coalition of groups and trial lawyers on Monday sent a letter to New York Gov. David Paterson (D) opposing a proposal to establish a state-sponsored indemnity fund to pay for medical malpractice claims, the New ...
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