Posts tagged Medical Malpractice

• Stem Cell Research in Cardiology

  Steve Klearman | August 29, 2007 10:50 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Stem cell will create countless new legal issues in coming years. The following article from Reuters, taken from Yahoo News, describes recent developments in stem cell research in cardiology: By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A nutritious cocktail helped human embryonic stem cells thrive and repair the damaged hearts of rats, U.S. researchers reported on Sunday....

• A Nation in Pain or Addiction?

  Steve Klearman | August 20, 2007 8:59 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Injury attorneys have long been aware of America's increasing problem with prescription pain medicines and the article below, pulled off Yahoo News this morning, confirms that a new national dialogue on this subject is in order. Legal addiction has become a major problem for the United States:MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. - People in the United States are living in a world of pain and they are popping...

• More Fun with Allstate

  Steve Klearman | August 16, 2007 8:49 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Wrongful Death
  

  As you may have seen in earlier blogs, Allstate's Nevada Counsel has got himself into a lot of trouble with the Nevada Supreme Court and a number of District Courts and has incurred high sanctions. I received this email update from Peter Chase Neumann, one of the attorneys keeping the heat on Allstate:In the wrongful death case of Duncan Estate vs. Peri and Stratton, the Trial Court, Dept 4,...

• Melanoma Rates Continue to Rise

  Steve Klearman | August 13, 2007 8:36 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  This from D. Garth Sullivan, Esq. at Indox Consulting. Mr. Sullivan writes to attorneys every week with news from legal-medical frontiers:The incidence of melanoma has steadily increased in the United States, and from 1995 to 2004, the rate of melanoma rose by more than 1% per year. The rising increase in melanoma is not specific to 1 age group, but the incidence was particularly noted among...

• Relationship Between Low LDL and Cancer

  Steve Klearman | August 01, 2007 7:23 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  This from an email to me yesterday from Indox Consulting. More contradictions in medical research:Results from a new analysis, initially designed to determine whether there was a correlation between the extent to which statins lowered low-density lipoprotein (LDL)-cholesterol levels and liver and muscle toxicity, suggests that the cardiovascular benefits of achieved levels of LDL cholesterol...

• China Deserves the Scrutiny

  Steve Klearman | July 16, 2007 8:49 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  There's a headline on Yahoo News today: China is blaming the media for inflating concerns about product safety (rather ironic on the wake of the execution of the minister in charge of drug safety).I lived in Taiwan for several years and travelled extensively through China. It is, without doubt, one of the most polluted countries in the world.China deserves the blame. They endanger the entire...

• California Rates Cardiac Surgeons

  Steve Klearman | July 16, 2007 7:43 AM | 1 CommentReno, NV Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  This from Garth Sullivan, Esq. at Indox Consulting:For the first time, California consumers can find out how individual cardiac surgeons fare on coronary bypass procedures. In a new report, the state has listed bypass death rates for 121 hospitals and 302 heart surgeons. The data is drawn from adult bypasses performed between Jan. 1, 2003 and Dec. 31, 2004. Hospital fees paid for the $1.5...

• Cleaners and Justice Prevail

  Steve Klearman | June 27, 2007 12:25 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Alright: what was destined to happen happened: the greedy unrealistic judge (with an anger problem perhaps) lost. As well he should have. Here's the story as reported by the Reno Gazette Journal on June 25, 2007:WASHINGTON (AP) -- A judge ruled Monday that no pair of pants is worth $54 million, rejecting a lawsuit that took a dry cleaner's promise of "Satisfaction Guaranteed" to its most...

• Nevada Rural Hospitals Survive in Northern Nevada

  Steve Klearman | June 26, 2007 11:08 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Anyone who's spent anytime in Northern Nevada's rural communities knows that healthcare can be an issue. This article comes from John Wheeler, special to the Reno Gazette Journal, and was published on June 24, 2007. When it comes to economic development, rural communities readily see the benefit in attracting traditional businesses, such as warehouses or processing plants.But they might get...

• Northern Nevada Medical Center Hires COO

  Steve Klearman | June 25, 2007 11:04 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Per the Reno Gazette Journal, NNMA in Sparks has hired a new administrator in charge.Northern Nevada Medical Center and Universal Health Services, Inc. announced the promotion of Lisa Wilson to chief operating officer for Northern Nevada Medical Center in Sparks.Wilson was an associate administrator at Northwest Texas Healthcare System, a 489-bed hospital in Amarillo, Texas.Wilson's previous...