Nearly a fourth of Americans are now forced to travel farther to a hospital trauma center than they once did, a new study shows.
And those most affected are African Americans, poor, uninsured and rural residents.
Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco examined changes in driving time to trauma centers, which have increasingly been shuttered [...]
The number of U.S. workers with elevated blood lead levels has dropped by more than 50 percent over the past two decades — from 14 per 100,000 in 1994 to 6.3 per 100,000 in 2009, a new study shows.
“Although the prevalence of high blood lead levels has decreased, the health effects from lead exposure are [...]
While the length of hospital stay has decreased for patients undergoing hip replacement surgery, a new study shows an increase in the rates of readmission to the hospital and discharge to skilled care facilities.
Average hospital stays after total hip arthroplasty (replacement) has gone from 9 days in 1991 to 3.5 days in 2008, according to [...]
Consider the scenario where your doctor has just given you a serious diagnosis or told you he had concerns about your results from a recent medical test.
Carefully listening to your doctor and asking questions about a diagnosis or test results are very important. But just when you should be paying close attention to what your [...]
The strongest medication-related safety warnings that can be placed in a drug’s labelling are not always consistent within drug categories, a new study suggests.
These black box warnings, as they are known, should be rendered uniform for all medications within a single class of drugs, according to a team of researchers from Greece and the United [...]
A new study shows that quality improvement programs at hospitals can help save the lives of its patients.
Previous research has shown that targeted quality improvement programs can reduce healthcare-associated infections, but this study is the first to link these programs to reduced death rates.
Researchers led by Allison Lipitz-Snyderman, Ph.D., of The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School [...]
I have heard a good number of people proclaim that in a rear end collision, Florida law says it is the the rear driver’s fault. That statement contains seeds of the truth but is not entirely accurate.
In a rear end car accident, Florida law imposes a presumption that the rear driver is at fault. This [...]
In November of 2009, Florida’s First District Court of Appeals ruled that Shands Teaching Hospital had a legal duty to protect Michelle Herndon from Oliver O’Quinn, a surgical nurse with a history of stealing controlled substances. O’Quinn murdered Herndon by injecting her with dangerous drugs. Propofol, Midazolam and Estomidate are available only by prescription.
At the [...]
If you’ve been injured and become involved in a lawsuit, you’ll have many questions. It’s only natural. One of the questions I have been asked is whether I think that I can prove the defendant guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt.
That question raises several interesting topics about the burden of proof in civil jury [...]
The Florida Supreme Court disbarred a Florida lawyer Thursday for letting a female client pay for legal services by having sex with him.
James Harvey Tipler had earlier pled guilty to solicitation to prostitution in his criminal case. Tipler agreed to let his client, an 18-year-old woman, reduce her $2,300 fee for her assault case.
Every time [...]