News tagged with 'Surgery'

A Georgia Supreme Court decision will allow those catastrophically injured by medical malpractice to take their case before a jury and have the jury decide what the case is worth, without imposed caps.

Increasingly hospitals are turning to risk calculators, based on thousands of procedures nationally, to inform consumers the risk of their procedure and complications.

California has collected over $2 million in fines from hospitals that have made medical errors which kill up to 200,000 patients every year nationally. The latest fines have been issued to 13 hospitals.

Stryker Biotech LLC and its executives were indicted by a grand jury Wednesday, accused of fraudulently marketing its bone-growth products and covering-up the misconduct. They face prison time and fines.

A 37-year-old mother goes to a tanning medspa to have liposuction and has a seizure and is now brain dead. The clinic was not licensed to do medical procedures using general anesthesia, and the doctor was an occupational physician, not a plastic surgeon.

Nearly one in four households have someone afflicted by the debilitating pain of migraines. Now there may be new hope, from a common plastic surgery procedure, according to new research published in the journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.

Dr. Tim Kuklo made $800,000 from medical device maker, Medtronic, for work as a consultant and during the time he shopped a professional article on a Medtronic product for publishing. The Army says the article was "falsified" by Kuklo, who is no longer an Army surgeon. 

Botox and similar anti-wrinkle drugs will be required to carry stringent warning labels, prompted by reports of serious adverse events. Botulinum toxins may spread from the injection area to other areas of the body causing symptoms similar to those of botulism, including trouble of breathing and swallowing.

The death of Donda West following her plastic surgery in November 2007, resulted in attempts to change the law about outpatient surgical clinics in California. Now the surgeon, Dr. Jan Adams, has surrendered his medical license. The Harvard educated doctor is facing numerous complaints including two DUI convictions. 

Children who have repeated anesthesia before the age of four, may develop learning disabilities, this published study from Mayo Clinic Rochester finds. 

When it comes to using a stent or a scalpel to treat coronary heart disease, this large study finds that they are roughly similar in outcome with stents offering less risk of stroke but more likelihood of additional treatment.

A simple surgical safety checklist reduced patient-mortality and complications by more than a third. If all hospitals were to use the same checklist, they could save tens of thousands of lives and $20 billion in medical costs annually

A new study suggests Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery may reverse type 2 diabetes in extremely obese adolescents. Previous studies on adults with Type 2 diabetes have shown that gastric bypass weight-loss surgery can result in better disease control and disease remission.

This Beverly Hills plastic surgeon admits he turned body fat into fuel for his SUV. That revelation comes as a result of several lawsuits from patients dissatisfied with extensive lipo-suction, they say was performed by assistants. The doctor has since left the country.

Women seeking post-breast cancer reconstructive surgery many not be made fully aware of options available to them, reports the New York Times. For many breast cancer patients undergoing mastectomies, reconstructive breast surgery is more about feeling whole again and less about restoring their appearance.