Two women charged with caring for elderly patients faced a Long Island judge Tuesday, accused of beating an 88 year old man in his nursing home bed because he didn't want to shower. According to the victim's daughter, Patty Izzo, the two women "put a pillow on his...
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IOH team: too many accepted medical practices harmful, unproven
The lead researcher of a team from the National Institutes of Health (IOH) states that the most dire problem existing in the medical industry today owes most prevalently to "when medical practices are instituted in error." Dr. Vinay Prasad says that the way to combat...
Focus: fine tuning training hours for resident MDs
It wasn't all that long ago that many voices within the medical industry were lamenting what was construed as the unduly long hours spent by beginning surgical resident on duty. The specific complaint was that sleep-lacking doctors were roaming hospitals across the...
Researchers: Scans for pulmonary embolisms a double-edged sword
"Why are you ordering that CT scan?"That is a question that literally millions of Americans might want to be rehearsing when the recommendation is made in a New Jersey medical office or elsewhere across the country, especially when the recommendationrelates to a...
Growing pains for electronic health records’ implementation
The advent of electronic health record (EHR) systems to supplant paper records for patients in New Jersey and elsewhere across the country began in earnest several years ago with the federal government's initiative to reward hospitals upgrading their charts and...
School Bus Safety
A Camden County Superior Court jury this week awarded $5 million to a teenage girl who was struck by a drunk driver after her school bus let her off at a dangerous and unapproved stop. According to court documents, plaintiff's attorneys argued that the school bus...
Government study spotlights prescribing habits of problem MDs
Drug-related mistakes committed by a New Jersey doctor or a physician in some other state can encompass a number of diverse factors and situations. Doctors sometimes prescribe the wrong drug to a patient. Occasionally, the wrong dose of a medication is...
Study: Future cancers tied to high rate of CT scans in kids today
A central point that prominently emerges in research that was published recently in the journal JAMA Pediatrics is that X-ray errors and other types of scanning problems can derive from many sources, which makes cancer risks -- especially for young patients --...
Doctor’s view on medical mistakes: greater transparency needed
An experienced infectious-disease physician who often writes articles on medical topics recently addressed the subject of surgical mistakes and other medical errors, noting both a culture of nondisclosure surrounding the admission of error and the need for doctors and...
NJ company false claims settlement highlights MD conflict risks
A New Jersey-based medical technology company has just been slapped hard in a settlement reached with the U.S. Department of Justice. C.R. Bard Inc. -- headquartered in Murray Hill -- will pay out more than $50 million to settle charges that it violated the federal...
