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6/27/2006 2:43:00 PM | Home slammed in death 
=(0) Pennsylvania State Inspectors found 14 violations in an inspection of the Lackawanna County Health Care Center, a nursing home. Reports are that patients suffered frequent falls, and one woman died after falling twice in one day. Officials say falls are a symptom of staff neglect. Unsanitary conditions were also noted; however the County ...
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6/26/2006 7:52:00 AM | Widow blames doctors after husband dies of blood illness =(0) A woman in Scotland plans to sue her local doctors for misdiagnosing her late husband's blood infection. George Whitecross was initially diagnosed with gastroenteritis, but eventually died in hospital of an overwhelming blood infection (septicemia). His widow claims the doctors making the initial diagnosis overlooked the fact that he had had h...
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6/26/2006 3:01:00 AM | Fake products can bypass quality, safety =(0) Counterfeit cosmetic surgery products are a health and safety hazard that consumers need to be aware of, say officials. People have been sickened, paralyzed or even killed by injections of fake botox and other injectable substances such as silicon. These products can also be contaminated with bacteria. The safest way to obtain these treat...
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6/24/2006 5:10:00 AM | Judge refuses to overturn verdict clearing breast surgeon of ... =(0) New Jersey Superior Court has upheld the verdict in favor of a plastic surgeon accused of malpractice. A jury had previous cleared Dr. Richard Marfuggi of wrongdoing in the case of a woman who claimed he removed too much tissue while performing her breast reduction. The doctor claimed the result was a consequence of the plaintiff's poor b...
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6/23/2006 7:18:00 PM | NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Inspectors Find State Home Failed to ... =(0) A nursing home for Veterans in Tennessee is under investigation for negligence. Inspectors found a high incidence of severe bedsores, failure to notify doctors of changes in patients' health, failure to follow doctors' orders, and failure to ensure that staff had proper training. The home must pay $6000 per day in fines and not admit any ...
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6/23/2006 10:22:00 AM | Officials fault nursing home in Jacksonville for death =(0) The State of Illinois has fined two nursing homes for negligence in regard to patient deaths. The ARC of Jacksonville Ltd. was fined $50,000 for failure to monitor a mentally ill patient who refused food and medication. Doctors were not informed until she was brought to hospital and died there. Heritage Manor South-Beardstown was fined $...
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6/21/2006 3:14:00 AM | NY Judge Denies Disclosure of Surgeon's Records =(0) A doctor, accused of plastic surgery malpractice, does not have to disclose his own medical records as evidence, a judge has ruled. The plaintiff, a woman who claims her face lift was botched, says one of the doctor's office staff told her the doctor had surgery on his arm or hand closely following her operation. However, the judge ruled ...
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6/19/2006 5:32:00 PM | Government Regulators Suspend Admissions At Memphis Nursing Home =(0) A nursing home in Memphis has been ordered not to admit any new patients and to transfer its existing ones to other facilities, after its Medicare/Medicaid certification was withdrawn for multiple violations. During an inspection, regulators found that basic standards of care and record-keeping were not met, and that patients were not adequate...
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6/19/2006 9:51:00 AM | Nursing home hit with fines =(0) An Indiana nursing home has been fined more than $34,000 and is being investigated for multiple deficiencies in care, including failure to intervene when patients became violent with each other and with visitors. Inadequate documentation of incidents was also noted. Hygiene was also an issue, with staff failing to prevent the spread of scabies...
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6/16/2006 4:40:00 PM | Davis nursing home named in lawsuit =(0) A California nursing home chain, Horizon West, is the target of a class action lawsuit on behalf of its residents. The suit alleges the chain did not provide the minimum patient care required by government regulations, yet billed for services allegedly not rendered. Plaintiffs claim the homes are understaffed and residents do not get the requi...
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6/16/2006 6:14:00 AM | Hospital settles malpractice suit =(0) A California hospital has decided to settle a malpractice suit rather than face long and costly litigation. It will set up a lifetime annuity for a baby who was born severely brain damaged after a C-section birth that lawyers for the baby's mother say was improperly delayed. The mother was hospitalized with high blood pressure and an attempt w...
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6/16/2006 4:01:00 AM | $3.5m ordered in malpractice case =(0) A Massachusetts woman was awarded $3.5 million by a jury in a lawsuit against a plastic surgeon. The plaintiff claimed the surgeon botched her breast reduction surgery, resulting in loss of blood flow to her breasts, which ultimately had to be removed. The surgeon was found to be negligent in performing the operation and in not sufficiently in...
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6/14/2006 4:07:00 PM | Trial of lawsuit alleging misdiagnosis of 66-year-old woman starts =(0) A trial is underway in Mississippi over the alleged misdiagnosis of cancer. A 66 year old woman was mistakenly diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and died in a hospice of an overdose of pain medication. However an autopsy subsequently revealed she did not have cancer. Plaintiffs allege the defendants, including the hospice, are responsibl...
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6/12/2006 5:23:00 AM | Judge fines nursing home for alleged abuse =(0) A nursing home in Iowa has been fined $2000 for failure to protect a resident from harm. An elderly woman claimed to have been beaten by a male resident with a documented history of violence. A surveillance tape partially backed up her claim, although the home claims her injuries were the result of a fall. A judge found that the nursing h...
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6/6/2006 6:03:00 AM | Plaintiff wins malpractice suit =(0) A woman has won a $50,000 award in a malpractice suit over her sister's death in 2002. The patient died several days after an operation to correct an esophageal disorder, of a perforated stomach and espophagus. The jury in the lawsuit ruled that while the doctors were not to blame, other hospital employees were negligent.............
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6/1/2006 10:01:00 AM | Husband warns after surgery death =(0) The husband of a British woman who died following gastric bypass surgery, warns women against the operation. The woman had failed at other attempts at weight loss and suffered from depression. She died from a post-operative infection. Her husband urged women to consider other options except in life-and-death situations................
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6/1/2006 4:00:00 AM | Sentara Obici Hospital sued for surgery malpractice =(0) Sentara Obici Hospital in Virginia is being sued for surgical malpractice following the death of a district judge who had surgery there. The claim is, a sponge was left in the judge's body during abdominal surgery in 2004 due to negligence by surgical assistants. This led to pain, infection, and more surgery, and resulted in his not being a c...
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5/26/2006 7:34:00 AM | Jury finds for surgeon in malpractice case =(0) A jury has found against an Arkansas woman who was suing a surgeon for malpractice regarding the death of her husband. The patient bled to death internally after surgery to remove part of a cancerous lung. Autopsy showed that hemiclips used to tie off blood vessels had come dislodged. At issue was whether the surgeon had been negligent in...
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5/25/2006 4:40:00 PM | Local Woman Talks About Nightmare Under the Surgeon's Knife =(0) A Michigan woman is suing an East Lansing plastic surgeon because of complications after a liposuction and "tummy tuck". The woman suffered problems regarding closure of her wound and severe pain; after several months of unsuccessful treatment by the surgeon she consulted another doctor who prescribed the appropriate antibiotic, but she is lef...
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5/25/2006 4:24:00 AM | Hospital delays blamed for twin’s death =(0) A couple in Manchester, England blames St. Mary's Hospital there for the death of one of their twin babies, and the multiple organ problems of the other. Because of a high risk pregnancy, a C-section was scheduled but later postponed for a day, allegedly because of other emergencies in the hospital. By the time the C-section took place, no hea...
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