The Wall Street Journal: “Errors made by doctors, nurses and other medical caregivers cause 44,000 to 98,000 deaths a year. Hospital infections, many considered preventable, take another 100,000 lives. …
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“Gov. Brian Schweitzer [D-Mont.] said Thursday that he is seeking federal permission to import cheaper drugs from Canada for use in state insurance programs,” The Associated Press/The New York Times reports…
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, leader of the court’s liberal wing, on March 8 told the New Yorker that he will decide in early April whether he will serve for another term, the Bloomberg/Boston Globe reports. Stevens, the court’s longest-serving justice and its oldest member at age 89, was appointed by President Ford […]
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USA Today: “In a backlash against President Obama’s health care legislation that stretches from Virginia to California, lawmakers in more than two-thirds of the states are scrambling to undercut the bill before it even passes Congress.” Legal scholars say that state legislation isn’t the final word, however…
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“The sour economy is producing a bumper crop of cash-strapped consumers, business owners and shady agents who’re fueling a wave of insurance fraud that’s keeping regulators and law enforcement officials busy from coast to coast,” McClatchy reports…
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Mind today presents new evidence to illustrate the barriers people face when trying to make a complaint about counsellors and psychotherapists and urgently calls for independent statutory regulation to help protect clients from malpractice (1)…
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An analysis of clinical negligence claims costs made against doctors has shown an exceptionally sharp rise in the size of claims in England and Wales. The Medical Protection Society (MPS) - which handles medical negligence claims brought against GPs and private doctors - said the total value of reported claims which have not yet […]
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An independent panel convened this week by the National Institutes of Health confronted a troubling fact that pregnant women currently have limited access to clinicians and facilities able and willing to offer a trial of labor after previous cesarean delivery because of so-called VBAC bans. Many, even those at low risk for complications in a […]
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Experiences from the Holocaust led to the international community coming together and agreeing on the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Despite this, more cases of genocide occurred during the 20th century than during any other century…
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The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday voted 12-7 along party lines to approve the nomination of Dawn Johnsen to be assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, CQ Today reports. The committee had already approved Johnsen nearly one year ago, but her nomination was never brought to the full Senate…
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