San Antonio Personal Injury Lawyer articles in category: Medical Malpractice

A new report is critical of a national study of an experimental blood substitute, PolyHeme, in critically injured patients never should have been allowed to take place due to the fact that earlier...

There are several resources to research whether your physician has been sued. They all have weaknesses and it is also important to remember that most all medical malpractice settlements are...

There is a developing body of judicial opinion that will place new limits on the rights of those who buy or use products, consumer advocates say. It greatly benefits big companies as it insulates...

Binding arbitration agreements are increasing between physicians, nursing homes and healthcare institutions. Some states have started taking legislative action to limit the agreements. An American...

Amgen and Wyeth adds strongest U.S. Food and Drug Administration warning to the prescribing information for the arthritis drug Enbrel. Amgen who manufactures the drug has now highlighted the risk of infections, including tuberculosis. The warning, already in boldface, must now be highlighted inside a boxed border, the so- called "black box" warning. In studies of more than 20,000 patients...

The Food and Drug Administration, FDA, is facing another crisis. Heparin, a blood thinner that is manufactured in China, was contaminated. The contaminated Heparin has been linked to 19 deaths and made hundreds of people sick. The last big drug crisis from China was in 1999. Since then, we have increased the drugs coming for China. The FDA only inspected 13 or the 566 plants in China last...

Dennis and Kimberly Quaid speak out about the medical mistakes at Cedars-Sinai hospital that almost cost them their children's lives. Their twins were supposed to be given two doses of Hep-lock which is the children's version of Heparin. Hep-lock and Heparin are blood thinners. Instead of receiving the two doses of Hep-lock they received one-thousand times that amount. This is not the first...

Putnam General Hospital has agreed to settle 70 medical malpractice cases involving John Anderson King who they employed for six months between November 2002 and June 2003. King, so far, has not agreed to settle any lawsuits filed against him. King had medical licenses in approximately 15 states, but 10 of those licenses have been surrendered, suspended or revoked due to the lawsuits and...

A recent study released in The Journal of the American Medical Association found that survival rate was better for hospital patients who suffered cardiac arrest during the day as compared to the patients who suffered the cardiac arrest at night. "It may be that patients aren't checked as often or that there aren't as many staffers in the hospital to respond quickly to emergencies. Or it may...

Ron Springs, a former Dallas Cowboy player, is one of eleven plaintiffs challenging Texas' medical malpractice caps. The lawsuit challenges if the limits awarded to Plaintiffs of medical malpractices are unconstitutional. The 2003 Medical Malpractice and Tort Reform Act limited awards for pain and suffering to $250,000.00 for doctors, hospitals, and nursing homes.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22940079/A study in London shows that 1 in 10 hospital patients can be precented. More than half of patients in the hospital are at risk for blood clots. Surgery patients are at most risk, but also patients with fractures, cancer, poor circulation, family history or obesity are at risk. Most patients can have preventative measures taken suck as blood-thinning drugs...

In Chicago, five people have filed lawsuits against Sierra Pre-Filled. The company makes pre-filled syringes. The syringes are made to flush catheters and IV lines. The plaintiffs all had to be hospitalized for several days because of the bacteria.The Food and Drug Administration and the company has recalled pre-filled syringes because the bacteria Serratia marcescens. The bacterial...

Drug trials which were never published regarding antidepressants like Paxil and Prozac have misled consumers regarding their effectiveness. A recent article from The New England Journal of Medicine found in published trials about 60 percent of people taking the antidepressents report significant relief from depression, compared with roughly 40 percent of those on placebo pills. However...

The San Antonio Fire Chief admitted in an interview on Tuesday that paramedic did not check for vital signs on Erica Nicole Smith.Ms. Smith was deemed dead by a paramedic that responded to a head-on collision in December, 2007. She had severe head injuries and remained inside her Honda for over an hour before the medical examiner came to the scene and discovered her breathing. She was finally...

According to a new study by Massachusetts General Hospital nearly half of doctors are likely to protect their colleagues. The doctors will see or know that another doctor has made a medical mistake and will not report their findings. The study, released Monday, reveals that 46 percent of doctors admitted to not reporting a serious medical error they had witnessed. Likewise, 45 percent admitted...