What Causes Pelvic Organ Prolapse? Pelvic organ prolapse can be caused by various factors, including the vaginal delivery of an infant and improper medical...
How Do I Know If I Have a Medical Malpractice Case? Medical malpractice cases involve harm to patients resulting from a medical professional’s negligence. While the general rules around statutes...
Are Childbirth Complication Rates and the Reasons Behind The Secrecy? Maternity hospitals that refuse to release data showing complication rates in their facilities can hide the dangers mother and child...
Interpretive Errors Among MRI Examinations Alarming Magnetic Resonance Imaging, or MRI, has long been a trusted standard in medical imaging, but recent studies into interpretive...
Communication Breakdowns Lead to Medical Errors Communication breakdowns among providers, between patient or family and healthcare professionals, and involving technology, including the Internet, e-mail, telephone,...
Med Students Not Trained to Recognize, Report Critical Medical Errors The lack of a formal patient safety curriculum that promotes learning regarding adverse events and critical medical errors has...
FDA: Crackdown on Homeopathic Remedies Homeopathic remedies are often unproven, lack scientific research to back up the claims, and can expose patients to significant...
Abandoned in the Last Days of Life: When Hospice Patients Cry for Help Hospice care providers are contracted to provide end of life care to ailing patients and when they fail to...
When “Pill Mills” Prescribe Addictions It’s estimated that there are nearly one in ten people prescribed opioids will develop an addiction to the drug....
