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| Thu, 03 May 2012 09:00:00 PDT Prescribing Pitfalls, Doctors Told To Be Careful, UK According to a study conducted by the General Medical Council (GMC), approximately 1 in 20 prescriptions GPs in the UK write contain an error. The researchers found that although doctors take prescribing seriously, improvements need to be made in order to lower the rate of prescription errors... Click here to read this news article. |
| Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:00:00 PDT Debt Collectors Visiting Sick Patients In Hospital Imagine a debt collector visiting sick people who owe money, coming up to their bedsides in hospital, and you might think that this was a description of a new movie - it is not; it really does happen. Debt collectors, according to the Minnesota Attorney General, Lori Swanson, have been confronting debtors in emergency rooms and hospital wards... Click here to read this news article. |
| Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:00:00 PDT Fake Cancer Drug Altuzan (Bevacizumab) Warning By FDA The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning doctors and other health care professionals that fake cancer drug, injectable Altuzan (bevacizumab), has entered the country. Bevacizumab is approved in the USA as Avastin, and sold by Genentech. Injectable Altuzan (400 mg/16 ml) is approved in Turkey, but not the United States, the FDA informs. The fake product has no active ingredient... Click here to read this news article. |
| Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:00:00 PDT Sexual Misconduct Among Most Commonly Reported Online Violations Of Professionalism By Doctors Results of a survey published in a research letter in JAMA this week, reveal that sexual misconduct and prescribing without an established clinical relationship are among the most common ever reported online violations of professionalism by doctors in the US. For their survey, Dr S... Click here to read this news article. |
| Sat, 03 Mar 2012 00:00:00 PDT 84% Of Anesthesiologists Involved In Surgical Catastrophes According to results from a survey published in the March issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, the official journal of the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS), over 80% of anesthesiologists have been involved in a fatal or serious incident to a patient during a surgical procedure... Click here to read this news article. |
| Tue, 28 Feb 2012 03:00:00 PDT Physicians Mistakenly Believe That Poor People Sue More Often Contrary to the common perception among physicians that poor people sue doctors more frequently, Ramon L. Jimenez from the Monterey Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Institute and his team demonstrate that socioeconomically disadvantaged patients, in fact, tend to sue physicians less often... Click here to read this news article. |
| Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:00:00 PDT Older Anesthesiologists Face More Litigation A study in the March issue of Anesthesiology, revealed that anesthesiologists over the age of 65 years had more frequent litigations and were linked to a higher severity of patient injury. Lead researcher, Michael J. Tessler, M.D. said: "We observed a modest but significant increase in the rate of litigation against older anesthesiologists... Click here to read this news article. |
| Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:00:00 PDT Some Doctors Do Not Tell Their Patients The Truth A significant minority of practicing doctors do not agree that patients should always be told the whole truth, even though The Charter on Medical Professionalism insists on openness and honesty, researchers from Harvard Medical School and other institutions in Massachusetts reported in the journal Health Affairs... Click here to read this news article. |
| Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PDT Some Physicians Do Not Agree With, Uphold Standards On Communication With Patients A significant minority of physicians responding to a national survey disagreed with or admitted not upholding accepted standards of professionalism for open and honest communication with patients... Click here to read this news article. |
| Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:00:00 PDT Most GP Complaints Resolved Locally, UK According to an analysis of complaints in the latest edition of inpractice, the Medical Defense Union's journal that appears twice a year and is aimed at GP practice manager members covering topics like complaints, RCN indemnity changes and dealing with estranged parents, over 90% of 2,410 complaints made by GP members in the year April 2009/2010 seem to have been resolved locally... Click here to read this news article. |
| Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:00:00 PDT Paper Clips For Root Canals Lands Dentist In Jail When dentists do a root canal they are supposed to use steel posts, and definitely not paper clips. A dentist from Massachusetts has just received a 1-year prison sentence at the Bristol County House of Correction, for using paper clips for just such procedures - he had faced charges of assault and battery, as well as defrauding Medicaid to the tune of $130,000, and intimidating a witness. Dr... Click here to read this news article. |
| Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:00:00 PDT Breast Implant Boss Arrested The scandal of the faulty, badly made breast implants from French company Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) continues with the arrest of Jean-Claude Mas, 72, who according to police has been held at his home in Six-Fours-les-Plages in the South of France... Click here to read this news article. |
| Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:00:00 PDT Research Misconduct Revealed in UK A BMJ survey revealed that over one in ten (13%) UK based scientists or doctors have witnessed that colleagues intentionally changed or fabricated data during their research in order to get published, whilst 6% of respondents reported they are aware of possible research misconduct at their institution, that has not been accurately investigated... Click here to read this news article. |
| Thu, 12 Jan 2012 02:00:00 PDT Researcher Who Studied Benefits Of Red Wine Falsified Data Says University An extensive misconduct investigation that took three years to complete and produced a 60,000-page report, concludes that a researcher who has come to prominence in recent years for his investigations into the beneficial properties of resveratrol, a compound found in red wine, "is guilty of 145 counts of fabrication and falsification of data"... Click here to read this news article. |
| Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:00:00 PDT Point-Of-Care Testing, Avoiding Medical Errors Given that many medical tests are nowadays rapidly performed at the patient's bedside compared with tests that required sending samples to a laboratory and waiting for results, last month's special issue of Point of Care: The Journal of Near-Patient Testing & Technology reveals that as more of these point-of-care testing (POCT) technologies are integrated into patient care, car... Click here to read this news article. |
| Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:00:00 PDT Special Issue Of Point Of Care Highlights Patient Safety And Avoiding Medical Errors Many medical tests that once required sending samples to a laboratory and waiting for results can now be rapidly performed at the patient's bedside... Click here to read this news article. |
| Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 PDT Special Issue Of Point Of Care Highlights Patient Safety And Avoiding Medical Errors Many medical tests that once required sending samples to a laboratory and waiting for results can now be rapidly performed at the patient's bedside... Click here to read this news article. |
| Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:00:00 PDT Royal Society Cautions Against Premature Legal Applications Of Neuroscience A report of the Royal Society, the UK's national academy of science, warns that using neuroscientific findings as evidence in a court of law at the present moment of time should be approached with great caution, even though scientists growing knowledge of the brain certainly will impact the law in the future... Click here to read this news article. |
| Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:00:00 PDT HCG Diet Products Illegal, FDA Warns Seven Companies It is illegal to sell unapproved diet products that make unsupported claims, the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) has warned seven companies which are selling "homeopathic HCG weight-loss drugs. The marketers of these products tell users to follow an extremely restricted and potentially dangerous diet... Click here to read this news article. |
| Wed, 07 Dec 2011 05:00:00 PDT Have A Healthy Merry Christmas As we enter the festive season of celebration, partying, eating and drinking, for many of us, mixed in with that Yuletide spirit is an uneasy sense that all this overdoing it can be damaging to health, which is tempting to dismiss with the excuse that it only happens once a year, so where's the harm? But perhaps, there are some things we should consider, such as how... Click here to read this news article. |
| Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:00:00 PDT Anthrax Attack, US Government Agrees $2.5 Million Payout, But Does Not Admit Fault The family of Florida photo editor, Robert Stevens, who died following an anthrax attack, is to receive a payout of $2.5 million from the US government. According to court filings, Maureen Stevens will no longer pursue other claims. The lawsuit, which was filed in 2003, claimed government negligence because it did not stop somebody at U.S... Click here to read this news article. |
| Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:00:00 PDT FDA Takes Legal Action Against Dietary Supplement Maker In Pennsylvania The FDA has for the first time taken legal action against a dietary supplement manufacturer and owner, which has substituted ingredients and products and failed to note the changes on the final product labels. The U.S... Click here to read this news article. |
| Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:00:00 PDT Illegal Human Study Left Three Patients Dead - Four Defendants Get Prison Sentences Four former executives of Synthes Inc. have been sentenced to prison for carrying out human medical trials illegally in which three participants lost their lives. US prosecutors had been seeking 1-year prison sentences for "human experimentation"... Click here to read this news article. |
| Mon, 21 Nov 2011 06:00:00 PDT Patient Has Buttocks Injected With Flat-tire Sealant, Cement And Mineral Oil By Fake Doctor In a "cosmetic surgery" procedure, a woman's buttocks were filled with flat-tire sealant, mineral oil and cement, and then sealed with super-glue by an apparently transgender woman, Oneal Ron Morris, claiming to be a doctor - Morris had never studied medicine. The victim had sought a curvier body and a larger bottom in her quest to find employment at a nightclub... Click here to read this news article. |
| Wed, 16 Nov 2011 01:00:00 PDT Malpractice Suits Cause Psychological Distress And Career Burnout Among US Surgeons According to the results of a new study published in the November 2011 Journal of the American College of Surgeons, malpractice lawsuits against U.S. surgeons occur often and can take a profound personal toll on the surgeon, resulting in emotional exhaustion, stress, and professional dissatisfaction... Click here to read this news article. |
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