Injuries send nearly 46 million Americans to hospital emergency rooms every year. Falls and car crashes are the cause for nearly 36 million of those visits, judging from the most recent year of numbers available. Injuries are as varied and unique as the people who...
A Chicago-area mother and child have won a medical malpractice suit claiming the errors of hospital staff left the boy severely brain-damaged. The final award will amount to $50 million. Award of $101 million halved by agreement The Cook County jury awarded the family...
While heart disease and cancer cause the most deaths each year in the United States, medical mistakes, including surgical errors and misdiagnoses, are the third leading cause of death, claiming 250,000 lives each year, according to a study by Johns Hopkins University...
