Family sues Park Ridge hospital in ‘superbug’ death
The family of an 82-year-old Mount Prospect woman who died after being infected with a deadly "superbug" during a 2013 outbreak at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital is suing the Park Ridge hospital for wrongful death.
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High risk medical devices backed by few studies
(Reuters Health) - Many high-risk therapeutic devices get Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval with only one study proving their safety and efficacy before going to market.
Studies of how the devices work once they are on the market are also few and far between, according to a new study that looked at all 28...
Cancer Doctor Farid Fata Faces Potential Life in Prison
DETROIT—Marietta Crabtree dabbed her teary eyes with tissue while she clutched a printout of the words her husband never had a chance to speak against Dr. Farid Fata.
The cancer doctor—who pleaded guilty to Medicare fraud in September after being accused of giving hundreds of patients unnecessary or inappropriate treatments, including chemotherapy—potentially faces life in...
Emails reveal: FDA was warned years ago about superbugs in medical scopes
State and federal health officials privately urged the Food and Drug Administration nearly six years ago to alert hospitals about contamination risks from specialized medical scopes that have been tied to a recent series of deadly superbug outbreaks.
The 2009 appeal came after duodenoscopes were linked to drug-resistant infections in dozens of Florida hospital patients,...
Dutch report details European superbug outbreak linked to faulty scopes
More than a year before a medical scope infected patients with a superbug at UCLA and Cedars-Sinai medical centers, a similar outbreak in the Netherlands prompted Dutch regulators to ask the manufacturer to prove the device was safe.
Olympus Corp. failed to demonstrate a safe cleaning procedure, according to a new report. As a result,...
The Healing Power of Your Own Medical Records
Steven Keating’s doctors and medical experts view him as a citizen of the future.
A scan of his brain eight years ago revealed a slight abnormality — nothing to worry about, he was told, but worth monitoring. And monitor he did, reading and studying about brain structure, function and wayward cells, and obtaining a follow-up...
Cuomo wants to pull plug on free website that reveals malpractice info about docs
Syracuse, N.Y. -- Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to pull the plug on a free state website that provides details about New York doctors' medical malpractice records, hospital affiliations and other background information.
A two-sentence item buried in Cuomo's proposed budget says the New York State Physician Profile website should be eliminated because much of the...
Melissa Rivers Files Malpractice Lawsuit Against Clinic That Caused Mom Joan’s Death
Melissa Rivers has filed a malpractice lawsuit against the clinic where her mom was being treated, stopped breathing and later died.
The “Fashion Police star” was at the clinic for a routine medical procedure when reportedly the doctors performed another medical procedure called a laryngoscopy on her vocal cords without consent. Among the shocking details...
Lead anesthesiologist during Joan Rivers’ procedure was target of 2005 malpractice suit
The lead anesthesiologist in Joan Rivers’ doomed clinic visit was also the target of a malpractice lawsuit in the Bronx where a mother died in childbirth while undergoing a C-section, the Daily News has learned.
Dr. Renuka Bankulla and Bronx Lebanon Hospital ultimately settled the lawsuit in 2005 for $4 million: $1 million to the...
Joan Rivers’s Daughter Files Malpractice Suit Against Manhattan Clinic
The anesthesiologist was getting nervous.
Joan Rivers, the comic known for her sassy wit and raspy voice, had been complaining of more than the usual hoarseness. Now Ms. Rivers was on the operating table at an Upper East Side clinic and her private doctor, Gwen Korovin, wanted to send a small instrument into her windpipe...
