Medical Malpractice Articles

A botched knockoff of the drug Tri-Moxi (which is often injected into a patient’s eye during cataract surgery) has caused at least 68 people in the Dallas area to suffer partial blindness or worse within days or weeks of being injected in the eye during routine cataract surgery. The original inventors of Tri-Moxi, Imprimis, have…

In late July, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned consumers that several pharmaceutical companies have initiated recalls of the popular blood pressure drug valsartan after discovering that the medication is contaminated with a potentially carcinogenic chemical. Valsartan is the generic name for Diovan, a drug used to treat hypertension (high blood pressure) and to…

Stewart Dolin, a 57-year-old Chicago lawyer, committed suicide by throwing himself in front of an oncoming train. He had started paroxetine, the generic form of Paxil, five days before his death. His wife, Wendy Dolin, sued the original manufacturer of Paxil, GlaxoSmithKline, claiming the company failed to sufficiently warn of the risks associated with the…

Amidst the disaster and destruction brought about by Hurricane Irma, Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills, a nursing home in Hollywood, Florida, lost power leaving more than 150 of its residents without air conditioning. Eight of the Center’s residents died from respiratory distress, dehydration, and heat-related issues, with some patients feeling temperatures up to 106 degrees…

Recently, an Oregon woman filed a lawsuit against Portland Adventist Medical Center and one of the hospital’s nurses after the woman’s newborn son suffocated in a hospital bed. According to the lawsuit, a hospital nurse brought the newborn to the mother’s hospital room to breastfeed in the middle of the night. The nurse placed the…

Recently, the FDA posted a voluntary recall from Raritan Pharmaceuticals of homeopathic children’s remedies containing belladonna extract. Belladonna, also known as “deadly nightshade,” is a plant traditionally used in herbal remedies that can be poisonous, and even fatal, if consumed in a sufficiently large dose. The recall affects the following Raritan products: Kids Relief Homeopathic…

Well over half a million people die every year as a result of drug resistant antimicrobials, with as many as 2 million being infected in the United States alone. Last week, a group of normally competing pharmaceutical companies came together to put together a plan for reducing drug resistance in the coming years. Some of…

Every year, an estimated 700,000 deaths are attributed to superbugs, microbials that are resistant to antibiotics due to overuse. These numbers are expected to only grow – towards 10 million a year, or 1 every 3 seconds, with comparisons of medicine being sent back to the Dark Ages by 2050. The Review on Antimicrobial Resistance…