— Feng Qin, MD, will pay $800,000 and be excluded from Medicare for 4 years by Kristina Fiore, Director of Enterprise & Investigative Reporting, MedPage Today March 11, 2021 A New York vascular surgeon has admitted guilt and will pay $800,000 to settle charges that he performed unnecessary procedures on patients with kidney disease, according to […]
— Both uncalled-for drugs and prolonged treatment durations, large-scale review finds by Charles Bankhead, Senior Editor, MedPage Today February 26, 2021 A majority of women with uncomplicated urinary tract infections (UTIs) received inappropriate antibiotics or continued treatment beyond the recommended duration, a review of almost 700,000 cases showed. Overall, 46.7% of patients received prescriptions for […]
by Kristina Fiore, Director of Enterprise & Investigative Reporting, MedPage Today November 11, 2020 Ob/Gyn Convicted in Unnecessary Hysterectomy Scheme A federal jury convicted Virginia ob/gyn Javaid Perwaiz, MD, on 52 counts related to a scheme to perform unnecessary hysterectomies and other surgeries in order to defraud private and government payers out of millions of […]
Malpractice system stacked against patients, advocate says Rosa Marchitelli · CBC News · Posted: Oct 05, 2020 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: October 5, 2020 When the pain in her shoulders and weakness in her right leg started two years ago, Giovanna Ippolito thought it was just part of getting older — that’s until […]
— First heart transplant in the segregated south by Chip Jones August 12, 2020 The following is an excerpt from The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South by Chip Jones. In May 1968, Bruce Tucker, a Black factory worker, suffered a skull fracture and was rushed to the Medical […]
Sobering Data on Risks of Short-Term Oral Corticosteroids — Short steroid bursts linked to serious adverse events within a month by Nicole Lou, Staff Writer, MedPage Today July 6, 2020 Corticosteroid bursts as short as 2 weeks or less were still linked to severe adverse events among relatively healthy users, according to a large study […]
The extremely common treatment might be causing more harm than previously thought. JAMES HAMBLIN OCTOBER 17, 2019 After giving birth to a baby, a young woman told her nurses at Boston Medical Center that she was having pain in her hip. That happens sometimes after births, says Ali Guermazi, one of the doctors involved. As […]
Terra Sumstine, MDLinx | August 26, 2019 In today’s high-tech, patient-centered healthcare environment, with computerized patient records and charts, it’s hard to believe that medical mistakes are the third leading cause of death in the United States. Medical mistakes resulting in death can range from unrecognized operative complications to mix-ups involving the doses or types […]
— New patterns emerge, especially for young people by Judy George, Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today June 14, 2019 Gabapentinoid prescriptions were associated with an increased risk of suicidal behavior and unintentional overdose, a population cohort study in Sweden showed. The risks were strongest for people who were prescribed pregabalin (Lyrica) over gabapentin (Neurontin), especially […]
BY KALEY JOHNSON MAY 10, 2019 An x-ray shows where two screws should have been placed in a woman’s spine during surgery and where the screws were improperly inserted instead, according to a lawsuit. DR. BOB BLACKLOCK EXHIBIT IN LESA SWANSON’S LAWSUIT A Hurst woman says her doctor misplaced four screws in her spine during a surgery […]
By Sari Horwitz and Scott Higham April 17 at 5:47 PM Dozens of medical professionals in seven states were charged Wednesday with participating in the illegal prescribing of more than 32 million pain pills, including doctors who prosecutors said traded sex for prescriptions and a dentist who unnecessarily pulled teeth from patients to justify giving […]
Nick Muscavage, Bridgewater Courier News Published 3:48 p.m. ET Feb. 27, 2019 | Updated 10:28 a.m. ET Feb. 28, 2019 NEW BRUNSWICK – A Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School doctor has been charged with photographing more than two dozen women in the bathroom at the city hospital. Dr. James Goydos, 58, a professor of […]
Megan Brooks January 29, 2019 A pathologist allegedly working while “impaired” in the Arkansas Veterans Health Care System of the Ozarks and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Fayetteville may now have caused the deaths of as many as 12 veterans, local media said January 28. The pathologist, Robert Morris Levy, MD, was fired by the Veterans […]
New York Post By Amanda Woods November 2, 2018 Surgeon Mistakenly Removes Woman’s Kidney During Back Operation Maureen Pacheco, then 51, checked into Wellington Regional Medical Center back in April 2016 to get the bones in her lower back fused in the wake of a car accident, The Palm Beach Post reported. During the operation, Dr. […]
– Closer look increases toll by 70,000 during 1999-2015 by Judy George, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today June 27, 2018 The number of fatal opioid overdoses may have been higher than previously reported, with some states greatly underestimating the effect of opioid-related deaths, an analysis of National Center for Health Statistics data suggests. Potentially 70,000 opioid-related overdose deaths from 1999 to […]
Reuters Health News | June 13, 2018 More than one-third of American adults take medications that have the potential to cause depression, a US study suggests. These include drugs for birth control, heartburn, allergies, pain, and hypertension. As of 2015, about 38% of adults took one medicine with depression as a known side effect, up […]
MARCH 09, 2018 Top News in Neurology Healthline/Medical News Today A new study—now published in the journal Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics—has found a link between a common class of stomach drugs called proton pump inhibitors and depression. The researchers suggest that the pills might lead to major depressive disorder by disrupting the gut’s bacteria. More and more […]
March 2, 2018 The surgery went fine. Her doctors left for the day. Four hours later, Paulina Tam started gasping for air. Internal bleeding was cutting off her windpipe, a well-known complication of the spine surgery she had undergone. But a Medicare inspection report describing the event says that nobody who remained on duty that […]
February 27, 2018 A San Antonio doctor faces a capital murder charge after authorities say he killed two of his neighbors while they helped his mother Sunday morning. Robert Edward Fadal II, 56, of Seguin was booked into the Guadalupe County jail and remains in custody, with bail set at $2 million. Anthony and Tiffany […]
February 21, 2018 at 6:10 pm NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A New York neurologist previously convicted of sexually assaulting patients has been arrested again. Dr. Ricardo Cruciani is accused of sexually abusing six female patients under his care at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital starting in 2013. He pleaded not guilty to multiple sex abuse […]