The Orlando Sentinel recently reported on a medical malpractice claim against the Veteran’s Administration clinic in Daytona Beach for missing a cancerous tumor on a veteran’s chest x-ray in 2005. When the veteran visited a non-VA doctor in 2006, a follow-up x-ray revealed the large cancerous tumor which was removed along with a large [...]

Medicare plans to hit error-prone hospitals where it hurts: in the pocketbook, according to the Associated Press. It’s going to be interesting to see how this plays out.
“Beginning on October 1, Medicare no longer will pay the added costs for eight preventable hospital errors, including catheter-caused urinary tract infections, injuries from falls, and leaving [...]

Unidentified damage from a past traumatic brain injury could be the unlikely source of problems ranging from poor memory and learning difficulties to behavioral changes such as homelessness and alcoholism, according to new research reported in The Wall Street Journal. New York’s Mt. Sinai School of Medicine has found that brain injury therapy often [...]