After the deadly meningitis outbreak that has spanned several states, The Massachusetts Department of Public Health has closed another compounding pharmacy over sterility concerns. The surprise inspection of the Infusion Resource premises revealed “significant issues with the environment in which drugs were being mixed.” Infusion Resource primarily mixes sterile injectable…
Tomorrow evening, Anthony Purcell and his mother, Micki, who have co-founding the non-profit Walking With Anthony, are hosting a fund raiser for spinal cord victims. Anthony, 24, became paralyzed in February 2010 while vacating in Florida with his family. Anthony dove into the water off South Beach and crashed head…
A tainted steroid medication has led to at least three deaths in Florida and almost twenty across the nation. Dr. John Armstrong, Florida’s Surgeon General and Secretary of Health, said that the tainted steroid has led to the onset of meningitis symptoms in at least thirteen Floridians. Over 240 people…
Imagine taking your child to the emergency room to treat a cut and leaving days later with your child suffering from brain damage. One family’s nightmare came true when they took their twelve-year-old son, Jonathan, to Dyersburg Regional Medical Center to treat a cut he received when he fell on…
A Colorado jury awarded $15 million to Jason Walters, a thirty-six year old man who became paralyzed within hours of being discharged from Memorial Hospital. Walters sued Memorial Hospital, Memorial Health System and a local doctor after he was mistreated at Memorial Hospital. Walters went to the hospital complaining of…
Lazaro Rodriquez went to Delray Medical Center complaining of chest pain. Less than three days later, he died of a heart attack. His wife attempted CPR and called 911, but to no avail. He was pronounced dead at the hospital. Rodriquez’s wife, Joanne has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against…
Eighty-one year old Florence Fiedler was admitted into Yale-New Haven Hospital in February of 2010 to have a pacemaker implanted. After the surgery, while she was on the operating table, she fell off of the table and suffered severe injuries, including “fractures of the hip and collarbone, a traumatic head…
When she was just a baby, Shaniah Rolle was given a vaccine that caused her to lose all four of her limbs. Following the removal of her spleen as a newborn, Rolle was given a special vaccination that was intended to protect people without spleens from infection but the vaccine…
A little over three years ago, at thirty-eight weeks pregnant, Melissa Guettler walked into the Indian River Medical Center intending to have her labor induced so that she could naturally deliver her baby boy. According to Guettler’s attorney, after admission to the hospital, Guettler began to display warning signs that…
A medical mistake cost Nadine Raphael’s husband his life. In 2003, Raphael’s husband, a patient at Palms West Hospital, suffered irrevocable heart damage when he was not given the anti-clotting drug Retavase while suffering a heart attack. He later died from the heart attack. Raphael filed a medical malpractice suit…