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Source: The Legal Intelligencer, June 2010 Drug maker GlaxoSmith Kline has agreed to begin settling cases where plaintiffs allege the use of antidepressant Paxil caused birth defects. Only one case in Philadelphia’s mass tort Paxil program has gone to trial. Children born with birth defects where a mother is taking the Paxil drug during pregnancy is such [...] You MAY have a medical malpractice case if: _ You or a loved one were significantly injured from a surgical error or complication of surgery _ You or a loved one were significantly injured from improper medical care or treatment _ You or a loved one were diagnosed with breast, ovarian, prostate or other cancer after a year [...] Source: ACOG (The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists) July 2009 ACOG has now published a revised version of it’s guidelines for Fetal Heart Rate (FHR) monitoring. In practice Bulletin #106, ACOG has sought to improve consistency of common terms and to reduce variability (bad word choice) in FHR interpretation. FHR was used in less than [...] A little too close to home here, but results of a recent British cohort study suggest that infants who required resuscitation are at increased risk for low IQ scores by 8 years of age. Significantly, the results were said to be similar for those infants with and without encephalopathy. The theory advanced to explain this is [...] |
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