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I wonder if we will ever read a report like this one in SW Virginia – my guess is, we might someday. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/05/AR2007060502558.html?hpid=topnews “From an emergency department with faulty monitors, IV pumps and broken stretchers to an operating room running part time for lack of staff, patient care is increasingly limited and uncertain at Greater…

According to this article, a woman in Charleston, West Virginia has filed suit against Sunbridge Care and Rehabilitation Center in Dunbar, West Virginia. Tammy Rae Combs filed the suit alleging the nursing home was negligent and that as a result her father, Ray Combs, suffered from pneumonia, dehydration, pressure sores, multiple fractures, malnutrition, contractures and…

My friends at the Washington Post must have had access to the whole study on elderly patients with dementia, and psychotropic drugs – their very detailed article can be found: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/05/AR2007060500572.html

At today’s annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), researchers announced the results of a clinical trial of Nexavar. The drug, made by Bayer, was used in a clinical trial which was stopped early due to the overwhelmingly good response. The liver cancer patients who took Nexavar had 44% more time to…

That is the title of an article on MSNBC. Dr. Robin Herbert is the co-director of a program that monitors the health of ground zero workers. The World Trade Center Medical Monitoring Program is based at Mount Sinai Medical Center and monitors people who worked at ground zero for health problems. Mount Sinai released reports…

HealthGrades has released their “Fourth Annual Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study.” HealthGrades researches and reports information on patient safety in hospitals throughout the United States. They use the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) Patient Safety Indicators to “identify the patient safety incident rates for every non-federal hospital in the country using three…

Anyone with experience knows that dementia is a sad and scary disease. Typically physicians treat symptoms of dementia with antipsychotic medications to reduce some of the manifestations of the disease, like aggressiveness etc. A recent study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine this month, followed older adults with dementia between 1 April 1997 and…

A Superior Court (San Diego, California) jury awarded $5.7 million in damages to a bedridden man who claimed a doctor failed to diagnose his skin cancer. The verdict is the largest medical-malpractice award in California this year, but will be cut to $1.9 million under a state statute limiting damages in malpractice suits. Regis M.…

Health Management Associates, Naples, Fla., has agreed to sell 133-bed Mountain View Regional Medical Center, Norton, Va., and 50-bed Lee Regional Medical Center, Pennington Gap, Va., to Wellmont Health System, of Kingsport, Tenn. Although the terms were not disclosed, I imagine there is a pretty big pricetag. Read more – modernhealthcare.com. The purpose? President of…