Malpractice Juries Favor Doctors, Researcher Concludes
Doctors get a fair shake from malpractice juries, a Missouri law professor has found. In fact, physicians often win cases experts expected they’d lose.
All articles by Myra Dembrow
Transplant Outpatients Often Subject to Drug Errors
Medication mistakes are common among patients who have received liver, kidney or pancreas transplants, researchers at the Yale University School of Medicine reported recently.
New PCa Test More Accurate Than PSA
An experimental blood test has detected prostate cancer so accurately that it could supplant PSA levels as a screening mechanism for the disease, according to researchers.
Fragmented Surgical System Causes Medication Mistakes
Dangerous medication errors are most likely to occur in surgical settings, according to a pharmaceutical watchdog.
Better Hand-Offs Needed At Hospital Discharge
Hospital-based physicians are doing a poor job of communicating with their primary-care providers (PCPs) when patients are discharged, according to a recent meta-analysis.
Eating Soy May Cut PCa Risk
Men who consume large quantities of isoflavone-rich soy food have a decreased risk of localized prostate cancer.
Damages Cap Faces Constitutional Challenge
The constitutionality of Illinois’ limit on certain damage awards is being challenged by a plaintiff’s attorney in a Cook County circuit court.
Surgeon Mistakes Kidney for Gallbladder
A Massachusetts surgeon will be operating under supervision for the next five years because he removed the wrong organ.
Briefings Boost Teamwork, Cut Chance of Surgical Error
A two-minute time-out before an operation significantly reduces risk of surgical mistakes while creating a more collaborative atmosphere in the OR, according to surgeons at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes in Baltimore.
Green Tea Adds to Anti-PCa Effect, Tests Show
Taking green tea together with low doses of a cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitor slows prostate cancer growth, laboratory tests show.
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