Ilinois State Police are investingating five deaths at a Woodstock nursing home.A former employee at the Woodstock Residence, 309 McHenry Ave., has spoken to state police about the investigation, according to the source.No arrests have been made and none is expected soon, because the investigation c
On November 9, 2006, the FDA recalled acetominophen 500 mg tablets produced by Perrigo Company. It is believed that some of these tablets contain metal fragments. The recall includes approximately 11 million bottles. This is an over the counter medication and not a prescription drug.
The Illinois Department of Public Health recently reported two nursing homes that were fined for not properly monitoring patients. The violations were both Type A violations under the Nursing Home Care Act.At Sterling Pavilion a woman died from a head injury she sustained after a fall at the nursing
The family of a former New York City police officer who died three years ago has filed a nursing home neglect lawsuit against Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Jewish Geriatric Center.Abraham Ticknor lived at the nursing home from the time he suffered a stroke in the mid 1990s until his death in 2003.His daug
Judges in several statets are attending a new kind of Medical School, not to become doctors, but to become better judges in complex litigation. A non-profit school in Washington uses doctors and scientists to educate judges so that they can become more familiar with the underlying issues involved in
Seemingly, the medical profession has lost all sense of reason and ethics in their obsession to blame victims for unreasonably high malpractice premiums. A new website encourages doctors to blacklist patients and plaintiff attorneys who have filed medical malpractice suits. Ironically, plaintiffs wh
Scientific Fraud by industry is not limited to the motive of increased sales; it is also designed to defend lawsuits. I am currently prosecuting a Sanctions Motion against a Product Liability Defendant for secretly creating a “peer reviewed study” to promote its litigation strategy. The Scientific F
If you’ve been reading the newspapers lately, you can’t miss articles and editorials concerning the proliferation of Conflicts of Interest in Medical Studies. As recently reported in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Chicago Tribune; several stories are surfacing about researchers who dec
Doctors from Cardiff University in Wales have revealed that previous studies concerning antidepressants had inflated their safety statistics. Referring to the SSRI drugs (Selective Serotonim Reuptake Inhibitors), the Cardiff Study found that the risks of suicides have been routinely understated whil
The Institute of Medicine has reported that 1.5 Million patients each year are injured in hospitals as a result of medication errors. The study revealed the alarming statistic that at least one medical error occurs to each patient every day. The cost for additional medical treatment necessary to add
A 15-month Congressional inquiry into FDA enforcement of the nation’s food and drug laws has found a frighteningly sharp decline over the last five years. The number of warning letters to drug companies, medical device makers and others is down 54% from 2000 to 2005. Enforcement actions was down 65%
Do you bellieve Fast Food Restaurants should warn customers that their menu items are fatty? How about the Trans-Fat amounts? The recent lawsuit by the Center for Science in the Public Interest against KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) raises the question of whether the Courts are appropriate places to e