Medical Malpractice

• Lap Band Surgeries, Risks, and Misleading Advertising

  Greg Webb | December 24, 2011 8:00 AM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued warning letters to a California marketing company known as 1-800-GET THIN and to eight other affiliated weight-loss surgery centers, for using...

• Technology Health Hazards 2011

  Greg Webb | November 13, 2011 1:56 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Can you guess what the top technology health hazard is this year? The ECRI Institute of Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, has evaluated the most hazardous technology to patients and produced a list of...

• FDA Scolds Eye Care Health Professionals About False Claims

  Greg Webb | October 04, 2011 5:22 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Last week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a Letter to Eye Care Professionals with a broad warning against deceptive, potentially harmful advertising that makes false claims,...

• Medicare Seeks to Improve Medical Care Quality

  Greg Webb | November 19, 2010 9:02 AM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  A recent study led to a frightening statistic: one in seven Medicare patients are harmed during their hospital visit. The government study caused the new chief of Medicare to demand steps for...

• Military Members May Soon Sue for Medical Malpractice

  Greg Webb | May 16, 2010 8:15 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  The Military Officers Association of America (MOAA) recently spoke out in support of the Carmelo Rodriguez Military Medical Accountability Act. The bill, headed up by Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY),...

• Norwegian Infection Control Methods Worth Replicating

  Paul Thomson | January 11, 2010 12:01 AM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  An article posted on Sphere.com discussed Norway's unusual method of virtually eliminating the dangerous staph infection: limiting the use of antibiotics. The staph infection, caused by...

• Database of Medical Malpractice Unavailable to the Public

  Paul Thomson | December 01, 2009 9:13 PM | 7 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Tulsa World reported that there is a national database of medical malpractice data that the public is unable to fully access. The database is maintained by the U.S. Department of Health and...

• Corruption in Psychiatric Healthcare

  Paul Thomson | November 16, 2009 1:00 AM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  The Chicago Tribune reported startling ties between psychiatrist Dr. Michael Reinstein and pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca. The doctor, worth about a half million dollars to the drug maker,...

• Hospitals Rarely Disclose Adverse Events to Patients

  Paul Thomson | November 13, 2009 9:30 AM | 1 CommentCharlottesville, VA

  Medpage Today reported that hospitals rarely give their patients explanations when they experience adverse effects of treatment. A survey revealed that over sixty percent of the time, patients do...

• Post-LASIK Problems Underplayed and Unreported

  Paul Thomson | October 22, 2009 12:24 PM | 1 CommentCharlottesville, VA

  Aggressive marketing has made the well known vision correction surgery known as LASIK surgery (laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis) a $2 billion industry, with it coming under fire for overstating...