Year: 2013

A spinal surgeon with offices in Kentucky and Ohio has been arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigations on charges of making false statements in health care matters and for health care fraud. The FBI says the surgeon performed unnecessary surgeries on patients...

Neglect and abuse in nursing homes is more common than many people want to consider. These care facilities are tasked with providing our loved ones with exceptional care and comfort in the senior years. However, a case out of Cold Springs, Minnesota, highlights the...

A medical malpractice suit has been filed in the death of a 60-year-old man who received the wrong medication while undergoing surgery to repair a gastric perforation. The suit was filed against North Carolina Baptist Hospital and Wake Forest University Health...

When a loved one is put in the care of a Kentucky nursing home, you expect the care he or she receives to be above reproach. Unfortunately, in the neighboring state of Tennessee, that was not the case for several residents of a nursing home.On Tuesday, July 15, four...

A medical malpractice lawsuit filed in Kentucky's neighboring state of Ohio against Ohio University has been settled for $250,000. The lawsuit was filed by a student who claimed she was misdiagnosed in 2007 by the university's Hudson Health Center and that led to the...

When doctors perform fake or unnecessary surgeries, the toll it takes on the patients is high. However, the financial toll on the state could be high as well. A $55 million medical malpractice settlement has been approved by a judge in Indiana in a case that involved...

For many years, lawsuits against doctors, medical facilities and any other entity associated with the medical field for malpractice have been attacked. The attacks have come from just about everywhere, including Kentucky insurance companies, politicians and medical...

United Healthcare Foundation issued its first report on the health outcomes of people age 65 and over. Kentucky ranked just 45th out of the 50 states. The study used various statistics which were then separated into four categories or "determinants," which are...

A 66-year-old man has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against a Mercy Clinic in Missouri, alleging emergency room negligence after he says two doctors at Mercy Hospital failed to provide proper treatment for a flesh-eating bacteria infection he had in 2010. The...

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has issued a new recommendation statement regarding gestational diabetes screening. The panel of national experts believes all expectant mothers should be tested after 24 weeks of pregnancy to see if they have the...