by Mary Anne Pazanowski, Bloomberg Law. Sept. 27, 2019. A patient who contracted an infection following an elective hospital procedure may not access information related to the hospital’s infection prevention guidelines, a federal court in… Read More
By Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News, Sep 09, 2019. Louis Rocco has lived with diabetes for decades but, until he met with a registered dietitian in August, he didn’t know eating too much bread was dangerous… Read More
By Megan Thielking, STAT News, Aug 29, 2019. A sweeping new analysis adds to the evidence that many women who take hormone therapy during menopause are more likely to develop breast cancer — and remain at… Read More
By Bram Sable-Smith, NPR Shots, Sep 19, 2019. In the first three months after getting his Dexcom continuous glucose monitor, Ric Peralta managed to reduce his average blood sugar level by three percentage points. “It took… Read More
Photo Credit Rob Latour / Rob Latour/Invision/AP By DAVID JACKSON and MARIO ARIZA, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, SEP 13, 2019. Former Illinois and Florida nursing home mogul Philip Esformes wept and pleaded for mercy Thursday before being sentenced to 20 years in… Read More
As Americans sink under medical expenses, debt collectors go to great—and sometimes strange—lengths to collect. By OLGA KHAZAN, for The Atlantic. AUG 28, 2019. Updated at 9:10 a.m. ET on August 29, 2019. On March 8, 2011,… Read More
Johns Hopkins researchers analyzing Medicare data say they’ve detected physicians performing what look like unnecessary vascular procedures. Source The Wall Street Journal, Sept. 10, 2019 Now that unnecessary heart stent procedures happen significantly less often, doctors… Read More
Photo Credit Jeenah Moon for The New York Times. Drug-resistant germs, including Candida auris, prey on severely ill patients in skilled nursing facilities, a problem sometimes amplified by poor care and low staffing. By Matt Richtel and… Read More
By Mike Papantonio, Trial Attorney and Legal Expert. Prevacid lawsuits stem from patients experiencing a high risk of serious side effects like kidney disease and bone fractures. Patients claim the manufacturer failed to warn them… Read More
By STEPHEN HOBBS, SUN SENTINEL, OCT 26, 2017. It has been more than nine years since Florida health regulators concluded that Dr. Barry Jack Kaplan botched a woman’s breast implants and shouldn’t practice cosmetic surgery. In… Read More