Cleveland Personal Injury Lawyer articles in category: Medical Malpractice

On February 28, 2008, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued its most recent Public Health Advisory concerning a popular blood thinner, Heparin, manufactured by Baxter Healthcare Corporation. An unusually high number of severe allergic reactions have been associated with this product when it is administered in high doses over short periods of time - commonly referred to as a bolus. The...

On February 28, 2008, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued its most recent Public Health Advisory concerning a popular blood thinner, Heparin, manufactured by Baxter Healthcare Corporation. An unusually high number of severe allergic reactions have been associated with this product when it is administered in high doses over short periods of time - commonly referred to as a bolus. The...

On February 28, 2008, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued its most recent Public Health Advisory concerning a popular blood thinner, Heparin, manufactured by Baxter Healthcare Corporation. An unusually high number of severe allergic reactions have been associated with this product when it is administered in high doses over short periods of time - commonly referred to as a bolus. The...

Earlier this year the FDA released an alert about gadolinium-based contrast agents, announcing its decision to ask all manufacturers of these agents to place black-box warnings on these contrast agents. Gadolinium-based contrast agents are used by diagnosticians to heighten the image quality of a magnetic resonance image (MRI).The announced black box warning in May of 2007 came as a result of...

Brain tumors are the leading cause of cancer death in children. More than 2,200 cases of pediatric brain tumors are diagnosed each year. This week Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital of Cleveland announced it will will use one of its most significant gifts ever "to establish a pediatric brain tumor center, aiming to make the hospital a national research leader."The center, launched Tuesday,...

The pyschiatric unit of University Hospitals of Cleveland was placed on probation by the Ohio Department of Mental Health after a grand jury indicted Herman Brown, a UH employee since April of this year, on multiple counts of rape, kidnapping, gross sexual imposition and sexual battery. "The hospital on May 18 acknowledged the rape of one patient after Brown's arrest. But the Ohio Department of...

As summer approaches remember that with increased outside activity comes the risk of skin cancer as a result of too much sun. Failure to diagnose skin cancer can lead too serious health problems and ultimately result in death. Recently a jury in California, found a dermatologist negligent for failing to biopsy a cyst. The patient's cyst later metastasized into cancer resulting in numerous...

Previously I have blogged about the cases we are handing on behalf of recipients of transplanted human tissue stolen from cadavers without authorization from the deceased or consent from their family members. In these cases, the billion dollar a year human tissue industry shortcutted required screening processes which would have revealed that many of the unwitting tissue donors were not viable...

Nursing homes just like hospitals and doctors offices need to be properly monitored in order to prevent injury and death due to negligence. All too often negligence in nursing homes goes undetected and is ignored due to the fact that those that are patients are typically the oldest and sickest and unfortuneately can be ignored. Many states are now starting to inhance their inspections of...

When doctors prescribe antibiotics such as clindamycin, patients need to be alert and concerned about c. diff. When antibiotics overwhelm the bacteria in the colon, a patient can become severely sick and dehydrated, and the colon can suffer. C. diff, if not addressed, can prove fatal. There are occasions where c. diff is the result of medical malpractice.When prescribed powerful anti-biotics,...

There is a clock ticking from the date you are injured....and it only hurts the victim. In Ohio, and every state, there is a "statute of limitations" which governs the amount of time which a victim has to file a complaint against the individual/s or company which caused him or her harm. This time period typically begins when the individual is injured, for example, when the car accident...

Recent disclosures have revealed that many of our Veterans are not getting the medical care and treatment they rightfully need and deserve. The head of Walter Reed Army Medical Center was fired due to the poor care and conditions in that miltary hospital. The real tragedy here is that, such poor care and despicable conditions are occurring throughout the country and affecting patients...

Across the country we continue to hear horror stories of nursing home neglect and negligence often resulting in injury and the wrongful death of loved ones trusted to these facilities. Injuryboard lawyer Barry Doyle recently blogged on an unfortunate incident at a Kansas City nursing home where the facility was fined as a result of the death of a resident. The facility was using bed rails to...

If you are a victim of medical malpractice in Ohio, you have your back up against the wall and if President Bush has his way that's exactly where you will stay. Last night during his annual State of the Union address, President Bush said, "[T]o protect good doctors from junk lawsuits, we need to pass medical liability reform." In a continuation of a theme repeated throughout his presidency,...

Today, the Associate Press reports that the number of cancer-related deaths has dropped for the second year in a row. Since 1930, the number of deaths each year has continued to climb until 2002-2003, where a small drop in deaths was first seen. Statistics were just released for 2003-2004, indicating a substantial decline in deaths due to cancer. A second year of decrease proves the decrease...