Video: Obama Turns Up the Heat for Health Care Reform
Posted on Monday, March 8th, 2010
President Barack Obama is calling on Congress to give health care reform an up or down vote and says now is not the time to start over with new legislation on the matter. (March 6) [...]
continue readingPresident Obama ‘open’ to Republican ideas on health care reform
Posted on Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
President Barack Obama on Tuesday outlined four Republican ideas that he is open to including in the final health care reform bill, including efforts to combat waste and fraud in Medicare and Medicaid and rein [...]
continue readingIllinois Court Overturns Malpractice Statute
Posted on Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
In a case that could resonate in Washington, the Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the state’s five-year-old medical malpractice law because it limited compensation to injured patients for pain, suffering and other non-economic harms.
The [...]
Study Finds Link Between Atrizine, Birth Defect
Posted on Monday, February 8th, 2010
A popular pesticide, atrazine, is making news again. The crop pesticide was discussed in a study scheduled to be presented at the annual meeting for the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine’s (SMFM), The Pregnancy Meeting ™, [...]
continue readingStudy: Doctors Reduce Working Hours As Medical Malpractice Risk Rises
Posted on Thursday, January 28th, 2010
The debate over steep medical malpractice awards has long centered on claims that they are driving up the cost of health care, but it turns out that the prospect of big payouts is actually causing [...]
continue readingDoctor Sued For Implanting Unnecessary Stents
Posted on Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
BALTIMORE — Fallout continues over medical procedures performed at a Towson hospital that patients didn’t need.
A patient of St. Joseph Medical Center is suing the hospital and the doctor at the center of the controversy.
Cardiologist [...]
Mo. Court Hears Challenge to Malpractice Limits
Posted on Friday, January 15th, 2010
Missouri’s top judges questioned on Thursday whether a 2005 law limiting medical malpractice lawsuits is being wrongly applied to people retroactively and is discriminating against the spouses of those injured.
Attorneys for patients argued to the [...]
Medical malpractice: Illinois Supreme Court Delays Ruling on Damages Cap Case
Posted on Saturday, December 26th, 2009
The Illinois Supreme Court did not rule Thursday on whether the state’s medical malpractice law survives.
“It is not unusual for an opinion that is on the anticipated list to be withdrawn before filing,” a spokesman [...]
Illinois High Court Could Rule on Medical Malpractice
Posted on Sunday, December 20th, 2009
The Illinois Supreme Court is announcing it will release a decision on whether the state’s medical malpractice law is constitutional.
The court said it could rule Thursday on whether damage awards in medical mistakes may be [...]
Dennis Quaid to Help Prevent Medicine Errors
Posted on Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Actor Dennis Quaid is helping launch a national program to help prevent medication errors like the one that hurt his newborn twins in 2007.
Quaid on Monday was expected to announce the National Alert Network for [...]