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	<title>Access To Justice &#187; Medical Malpractice</title>
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		<title>Study Suggests Some Patients May Get Too Much Acetaminophen</title>
		<link>http://www.sokolovelaw.com/blog/2010/07/27/study-suggests-some-patients-may-get-too-much-acetaminophen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
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California Medicaid patients may be taking dangerous amounts of acetaminophen, according to a new UC Davis study. Acetaminophen is safe at four grams a day or less but it is prescribed to some patients in much greater quantities, according to the study published in Annals of Pharmacotherapy.
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		<title>Hospital Settles in Elderly Patient’s Rooftop Death</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokolove Staff</dc:creator>
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An Allegheny County judge approved a $900,000 settlement for the heirs of an elderly patient with dementia who froze to death atop the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Montefiore after she wandered through a door to the roof that was supposed to be alarmed and locked.
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		<title>Hepatitis Outbreak Linked to Anesthesia Contamination</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokolove Staff</dc:creator>
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Anesthesia given intravenously to patients could potentially lead to infection with hepatitis B and hepatitis C, according to researchers at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). The CDC researchers traced an outbreak of the disease to an anesthesiologist who did not follow procedure and used a single-use vial of the anesthesia drug propofol to dose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nursing Home Slapped With $671 Million In Damages</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 02:23:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokolove Staff</dc:creator>
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Skilled Healthcare Group, one of the nation’s largest nursing home chains, has been ordered by a California jury to pay more than $671 million in damages over alleged health code and other violations at 22 of its nursing facilities, according to The Times-Standard.
The class-action case alleged that the company violated a California statute that requires [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vets Face Possible HIV Infection After Visit to Missouri VA Hospital</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokolove Staff</dc:creator>
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HIV and hepatitis are among the serious diseases that more than 1,800 veterans may have been exposed to after having dental work done at a Missouri VA hospital, reports CNN.com.
Hospital officials at the John Cochran VA Medical Center in St. Louis told CNN the exposures resulted when dental technicians ignored safety protocols by handwashing tools [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pilot Program Seeks to Reduce Medical Errors and Malpractice Costs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 02:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokolove Staff</dc:creator>
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In an effort to blunt medical malpractice costs, New York State will test a pilot program in which hospitals will quickly acknowledge medical errors and offer to compensate patients who have been harmed, reports The Albany-Times Union.  The program is expected to cut millions of dollars in legal costs associated with medical malpractice.
Settlements will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alarm Sounded About Lax Infection Control at Outpatient Surgical Centers</title>
		<link>http://www.sokolovelaw.com/blog/2010/06/10/alarm-sounded-about-lax-infection-control-at-outpatient-surgical-centers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 01:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokolove Staff</dc:creator>
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File this under things that make you go “eew”: Lax infection-control procedures at the nation’s outpatient surgical centers–where procedures from colonoscopy to plastic surgery take place–may be putting millions of patients at risk for illness, according to a newly released federal study.
Bloomberg Business News reports that the study found infection-control lapses such as a lack [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unread Heart Test Investigation Grows</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokolove Staff</dc:creator>
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An investigation into unread heart function tests at a New York City hospital has now grown to include 5,000 echocardiograms – 1,000 more than originally thought, reports The New York Times.
New York City hospital officials now say the unread tests at the Harlem Hospital Center date back to 2005. The Times originally reported that nearly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jury Awards $23.3 Million in Birth Injury Verdict</title>
		<link>http://www.sokolovelaw.com/blog/2010/06/02/jury-awards-23-3-million-in-birth-injury-verdict/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokolove Staff</dc:creator>
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A Milwaukee mother and her young son, who suffered brain injury during his delivery, were awarded $23.3 million in damages by a jury in a recent medical malpractice case, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
The jury ruled against Dr. Donald Baccus and the Injury Patients and Families Compensation Fund but cleared the hospital, St. Joseph [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sokolove Daily Roundup</title>
		<link>http://www.sokolovelaw.com/blog/2010/05/25/sokolove-daily-roundup-47/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 03:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokolove Staff</dc:creator>
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News developments that we’re watching at Sokolove Law:
Cancer-causing sunscreens: Planning on sunning yourself on the beach during Memorial Day? Think again: many sunscreens made with Vitamin A or its derivatives may actually increase your risk of skin cancer, according to a study conducted by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a nonprofit advocacy organization. EWG researchers [...]]]></description>
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