Is Your Migraine Telling You Something?
No headache is pleasant. While most headaches will pass in a few hours, some do not. How do you know when to get help with a pain in the head? More than 90 percent of the population experiences...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Risks of Migraine and Men
Men get migraines, too. As with women and migraines, the risk may involve more than head pain. Migraine headache is a complex condition with a cause that remains elusive to researchers. In both...
View ArticleSchochor, Staton, Goldberg, and Cardea, P.A. Obtains $9,000,000 Settlement...
Schochor, Staton, Goldberg, and Cardea, P.A. Senior Partner Kerry Staton achieved a settlement of $9,000,000 from a hospital and emergency room group for a woman who was irreversibly injured due to a...
View ArticleInfection Control Failures at HealthPlus Surgery Center in Saddle Brook, New...
Patients who received treatment at HealthPlus Surgery Center, LLC (“HealthPlus”) are getting notices that they may have been exposed to dangerous blood borne diseases including human immunodeficiency...
View ArticleAvoiding Misdiagnosis—Blood Test May Provide Early Diagnostic Help
Early and accurate diagnosis of cancer gives physicians better odds at successfully treating patients. A new blood test uses machine learning to detect types and sites of cancer in the human body....
View ArticleNew Study Evaluates Misdiagnosis Rates of “Big Three”
Recent research suggests one in ten patients who experience symptoms of a dangerous condition like cancer, infection, or major vascular event will be misdiagnosed. Published in the open-access journal...
View ArticleTragedy at VA: Pathologist Makes 3000 Misdiagnoses
A report from the Veterans Administration Office of Inspector General offers a devastating inside look at errors made by a pathologist with the VA hospital in Arkansas. Robert Morris Levy began...
View ArticleDuring Transfer for Aortic Emergency, Misdiagnosis is Frequent
Aortic syndromes are dangerous and a new study examined how often these syndromes were misdiagnosed prior to transfer to other facilities. There are a host of aortic syndromes that demand rapid...
View ArticleResults in for New Tool May Used to Help Identify Undiagnosed COPD
A new screening tool for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) delivered mixed results in a recent research study. COPD impacts approximately 15 million people in the US each year. Although it...
View ArticleYour Doctor—the Chatbot
Artificial intelligence will likely replace some of your healthcare services in the future. How do you feel about that? Science fiction writers have long presaged a world where human services are...
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