A 13 year old girl died Tuesday when a tractor-trailer crashed into her school bus. Frances M. Schee, was an 8th grader at North Marion Middle School in Florida. There were 21 students on the bus. Eight others were injured in the crash. The tractor-trailer rear-ended the bus while it was dropping students off on […]
Regulator Calls for Strict Heparin Measures
Heparin, a blood thinner produced by Baxter Healthcare and others, has been the subject of a number of high-profile drug recalls. First, questions were raised about the labeling of the drug after the high-profile medical error in which Dennis Quaid’s twelve-day-old twins were administered a dose from an adult strength vial. The labeling of […]
Los Angeles Transit Trains Have Second Accident in One Week
Last week, the driver of a Metrolink train was texting and distracted and allowed the train he was driving to collide with a freight train in the San Fernando Valley. The accident killed 25 people and injured over 130, making it the worst railroad accident in 15 years. This morning, a light rail train collided […]
Study Shows Private Equity Owners Do Not Sacrifice Care for Profit
A recent study of nursing homes revealed that levels of nursing home neglect and abuse did not increase when the nursing home was purchased by private equity groups. In a study published in the September/October issue of the journal Health Affairs, researchers from Harvard University looked at the quality of care both before and after […]
Insurer Asks Doctors to Reconsider C-Sections
Although insurers generally rig the game so they make a profit no matter what the outcome, they have learned that preventing undesirable outcomes gives them a much more predictable return. This is part of the reason why they’re moving more toward increasing preventive care (often slandered with the name “defensive medicine,” although the two are […]
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