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A new lawsuit aims to shed more light on the horrific abuse of prisoners – many mentally ill – held in Mississippi state prisons. According to a New York Times editorial, the Southern Poverty Law Center and American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) have jointly filed a federal lawsuit against the East Mississippi Correctional Facility. The [...]

Intuitive Surgical has heavily marketed the da Vinci surgical robot system as innovative system for procedures such as a hysterectomy, but women may want to think twice about it. Experts are worried about the serious, potentially fatal injuries that can occur with the robot. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is investigating the da [...]

A new study has debunked the notion that so-called frivolous payments awarded in medical malpractice cases, and the bevy of claims made every year, are driving up the cost of healthcare. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have published a new study that shows payments in medical malpractice claims total $1.4 billion per year. That amount [...]

A new study finds that errors made in patient diagnosis are the costliest form of medical malpractice. According to a MedPageToday.com report on a study from researchers at Johns Hopkins Hospital, more than 28 percent of all medical malpractice claims paid out over the past 25 years were because of a missed diagnosis. Diagnostic errors [...]

Federal authorities have arrested a Chicago hospital owner, another executive, and four physicians at the facility for participating in a kickback scheme to defraud Medicare and Medicaid at the expense of patient health. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced recently that the owner of Sacred Heart Hospital in Chicago, along with a senior executive [...]

If doctors were made aware of the cost associated with some tests they order, they may be less likely to order those tests, according to the results of a new study. The study has called some health experts to worry that informing doctors of the costs of tests could result in some patients not receiving [...]

Hospitals have little incentive to improve their overall quality of care if they’re profiting more when patients stay longer following complications in their surgeries. According to a New York Times report on a new study appearing in The Journal of the American Medical Association, private insurance companies are paying more money to hospitals to care [...]

Over 500 million gallbladder surgeries are performed each year in the US to treat serious gallstone problems. During this surgery, patients may suffer from bile duct injuries. A bile duct injury occurs when the surgeon mistakenly cuts the bile duct instead of the nearby cystic duct. When this occurs, bile leaks into the abdominal area [...]

By: Gerard Ryan Patients of a Chicago fertility doctor received an FDA warning letter regarding his failure to screen egg donors for STDs.  The doctor failed to meet federal standards set in place that require strict screening procedures for all donors.  The doctor caught the attention of federal regulators when he used screening tests that [...]

Regulatory bumbling and an inconsistent means of funding end-of-life care for the elderly covered by Medicare are preventing many people from receiving adequate hospice care before they die. A new study appearing in Archives of Internal Medicine indicates that “1 in 11 elders died while enrolled in the Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) benefit” program through [...]