We take extra care to protect those closest to us, especially our children. We childproof our homes, buy the best products to keep them safe in the car and make sure the places they play and go to school will be environments of fun and learning the best way we know how. When a company makes a […]
When you are pregnant, you take a lot of precautions to protect your unborn baby. You take prenatal vitamins, go to your doctor appointments and make sure you’re eating healthy. But, you probably still get morning sickness or some kind of nausea. When your doctor prescribes you an anti-nausea medicine, you take it, expecting relief […]
When you are in the hospital recovering from surgery or getting treatment for an illness, your concern is getting well so you can get discharged and go home. You don’t focus on the equipment being used in your hospital room or in any of the exam areas where you’re taken. However, these devices do fail and sometimes, that […]
People have come to expect certain risks and side effects when it comes to prescription medicines. That doesn’t give pharmaceutical companies a free pass, however. From research and testing to manufacturing and marketing, the companies that sell us medications have a duty to inform us of the potential injuries associated with the product. If you […]
Surgical procedures are not without risks, which any surgeon will explain to patients before their operations begin. However, what happens when the surgery goes perfectly, but because of medical negligence on the part of the surgical team, there are still problems? One Louisiana woman is suing a local hospital after her husband passed away following […]
The baby boomer generation is getting older, which means more and more of this population of people will be requiring medical procedures like hip implants. In fact, it’s estimated that in as few as fifteen years, people in the United States will be getting up to one million hip implants per year. A hip implant […]
More and more doctors have started performing tonsillectomies as a way to treat sleep apnea in their patients. However, some medical professionals are saying that these procedures are too risky to perform on certain populations because there has not been enough research done to prove their effectiveness. A thirteen-year-old California girl underwent a tonsillectomy earlier […]
Erin Brockovich is taking a stand, along with many women all over the United States, to fight against what they believe to be faulty information they were given about getting the sterilization device, Essure, implanted in their fallopian tubes. Many of these women have suffered from various side effects because of the device, which is supposed […]
In a possibly unprecedented move the Missouri Healing Arts Board has suspended a physician, Dr. Randall E. Meyer, from practice until a hearing scheduled for February 4, 2013. According to the story reporting the suspension in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on December 26 the board could not find any mention of a previous action like […]
According to the results of some recent testing in Europe he drug Pradaxa has been shown to possibly be harmful to patients with mechanical heart valves. The FDA has issued a warning that the popular blood thinner should not be used by patients that have been given these types of valves. A recent clinical trial […]
