Over the past decade, there have been nearly 50,000 reports of women suffering injuries from using Mirena’s intrauterine device (IUD) as their form of birth control. The devices, which are…
The FDA has issued a Class 1 Recall for a wide range of GemStar Infusion intravenous machine models, as reported by beckersasc.com. The recalled models, according to the American Society of…
Our firm has discussed several troubling episodes recently involving railroad companies that have used wrongfully retaliated against or terminated employees for raising safety concerns….
The FDA issued a class I recall for two types of infant incubators manufactured by GE Healthcare due to a product error than can cease delivery of oxygen and heat. According to MedPage…
A North Carolina case from earlier this year involving the effectiveness of nursing home arbitration agreements put nursing home operators on notice that some agreements can be deemed…
The medical technology company CareFusion, based in San Diego, has issued a recall of nearly 10,000 units of an infusion pump it distributed in 2012 and 2013, according to Medscape.com. The…
Hospitals across the country decided to purchase and utilize a surgical robot called the “da Vinci robot.” Hospitals purchased these robots despite the lack of peer-reviewed evidence…
As a legislative bill that proposes raising some North Carolina highway speed limits from 70 to 75 races through the Senate, you may wonder if that's such a good idea. It isn't…
In the nation-wide wake of complications due to contaminated medications distributed by compounding pharmacies, state public health officials in New Hampshire are investigating whether any…
The Toyota acceleration debacle that cost the company so much in terms of its previously sterling reputation is a curious one given how quickly it exploded onto the front page and how…
By Mark Favaloro, Virginia (VA) Nursing Home Abuse Lawyer What Happened In Virginia Beach, Virginia (VA) a judge sentenced an in-home care provider for more than a year in jail for the…
In a very interesting case study, one nursing home in Connecticut reported back on what happened when they made a conscious effort to remove all alarms from patients for two years. Not only…