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Archive: June 2013

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It shouldn’t take twenty surgeries to fix a slight nose disfigurement. A 35-year-old man who approached a plastic surgeon for mild cosmetic work on his nose in 2006 has undergone more than 20 surgeries since then and now has a…

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Heart disease is one of the biggest killers in the United States, but a new study indicates that hospitals rarely use a treatment that could potentially save the lives of heart attack patients. This treatment involves cooling the body to…

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Doctors in Germany are reporting substantial success in using stem cell therapy to treat a child with cerebral palsy. According to the doctors, the boy had been left in a vegetative state after suffering a heart attack, but improved to…

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Amniotic fluid infections, medically known as chorioamnionitis, are among the major causes of premature births in the United States. These infections affect the amniotic fluid, fetal membrane, and placental tissues. New data suggest that these infections have increased at a staggering…

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Blood thinners account for approximately 7 percent of all medication-related errors involving hospitalized patients, according to a new analysis published in the Annals of Pharmacotherapy. Hospitals often use blood thinners to reduce the risk of heart attack or stroke by…

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Hospitals that are transitioning to electronic medical records systems but still use some paper records may be at risk of committing errors in the care of patients. A new analysis of data by the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority found a…

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Every year, thousands of people are seriously injured or killed by surgical errors and other medical mistakes, which can lead to malpractice lawsuits. Writing recently in the New York Times, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles,…

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A number of patients and their families across the United States have filed lawsuits, alleging serious surgical injuries from robotic surgical instruments. However, Intuitive Surgical, the medical technology company that manufactures the da Vinci Surgical System used in many surgeries,…

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