Twenty-year-old Miranda Casanova understands first-hand the challenges of being physically disabled. Diagnosed with cerebral palsy at a young age, the self-proclaimed “wheelchair-bound sass queen” has been chronicling her struggles and triumphs in life as a motivational speaker, blogger and aspiring writer. In a recent op-ed... Read More

Maryland’s MedStar Harbor Hospital and Johns Hopkins Hospital were both named as defendants in recent medical malpractice lawsuits involving birth injuries. Jurors involved in each birth injury lawsuit rendered multimillion-dollar verdicts, which remain under appeal. Many critics of today’s legal system argue that medical malpractice... Read More

A court in Gwinnet County, Georgia rendered a verdict in favor of plaintiff Melissa Dempsey, both individually and as the guardian of her daughter in a birth injury lawsuit. The case centered around allegations that attending nurses at Gwinnett Medical Center misinterpreted vital information from... Read More

On November 25, Bloomberg News reported that HCA Holdings, which is one of the country’s largest hospital networks with 280 hospitals and clinics both here and England, will halt the use of power morcellators in hysterectomy or fibroid tumor removals. The power morcellation ban came... Read More

A family from Calgary, Canada has filed a cerebral palsy lawsuit that demands $12 million in compensatory damages for their young daughter’s medical complications. The birth injury complaint claims that doctors were negligent during the labor and delivery of the now two-year-old toddler. The plaintiffs... Read More

A New York couple who had filed a Botox cerebral palsy lawsuit claimed that the treatment resulted in their son’s development of life-threatening complications. A jury agreed with their allegations and recently awarded the family $6.75 million. The verdict was announced in the U.S. District... Read More

Federal jurors in Charleston, West Virginia delivered another landmark transvaginal mesh trial verdict on November 20 – marking Boston Scientific’s second trial loss in just a few weeks. The vaginal mesh manufacturer was ordered to pay $18.5 million in compensation to four women who claimed they... Read More

In a series of open letters to the FDA, cardiac surgeon Hooman Noorchashm blatantly asks why health regulators have yet to enforce a mandatory power morcellator recall, in light of overwhelming evidence that the devices can spread undetected cancer. The Brigham and Women’s Hospital surgeon,... Read More