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• Jury Awards $15.8 Million For Cerebral Palsy Victim

  David Lowe | October 19, 2006 12:44 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  A Michigan court jury has awarded $15.8 million in damages for a child born with cerebral palsy allegedly the result of medical malpractice. The family's attorneys alleged that the doctors managing the birth were negligent in failing to perform a cesarean section delivery when the fetus experienced difiiculty during prolonged labor.Unfortunately, this type of tragic error occurs all too often....

• Study Tallies Bad Drug Reactions

  David Lowe | October 18, 2006 4:09 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  A nationwide surveillance study to be published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association reports that over 700,000 people annually report to hospital emergency rooms as the result of adverse reactions to medicines, including cases of overdoses and allergic reactions. A New York Times story about the bad drug reactions that took people to the emergency rooms points out that the...