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3 Companies Issued Warnings by FDA | Portland Trial Attorneys

It was recently discovered that duodenoscope may cause disease and infections that can prove fatal. The device is used during endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ECRP)...

Posted on April 23, 2013 in

When fruit isn’t good for you

There’s been a rash of norovirus outbreaks lately. Last month there was a norovirus outbreak at a meeting for the Oregon Department of Forestry...

Posted on October 19, 2012 in

Compounding problems

So that compounding pharmacy that has been linked to the tainted steroids that have sickened more than 250 people and killed some 20 with...

Posted on October 8, 2012 in

Back Pain and Meningitis Don’t Mix

When you get prescription medication, whether it is from your pharmacy or administered by your doctor, you trust that it is safe and will...

Posted on September 17, 2012 in

More kidney failures

So here’s a bit more on the story of the hospital personnel throwing away a viable kidney. The incident took place at the University...

Posted on September 4, 2012 in

No, the other kidney

Did you know that the most commonly transplanted organ is the kidney? In the United States alone last year, nearly 17,000 kidney transplants were...

Posted on August 29, 2012 in

Bracing for braces

Can you imagine having to wear braces for nearly a dozen years? Well, that is what happened to Devin Bost, formerly of Eugene, who...

Posted on August 15, 2012 in

Medical errors on the rise … slightly

The Oregon Patient Safety Commission announced that reported hospital errors, also known as adverse events or never events, rose slightly in 2011 to 142...

Posted on June 25, 2012 in

Hospitals and hepatitis

Who knows how something like this could happen, but some 44 people have filed a lawsuit against Exeter Hospital in New Hampshire for causing...

Posted on May 17, 2012 in

Not a crutch

It’s never pleasant when medical equipment fails, but if the failure directly affects your livelihood, it just adds insult to injury (no pun intended)....

Posted on May 8, 2012 in

One pill doesn’t cure all

The makers of an epilepsy drug that was later marketed as a treatment for schizophrenia as well as dementia-related agitation must pay $1.5 billion...

Posted on March 9, 2012 in

Getting Down with It

There is no real happy ending for anyone involved in this case. Deborah and Ariel Levy sued Legacy Health System for “wrongful birth,” and...

Posted on February 27, 2012 in

Medical records theft = no lawsuit

I don’t think anyone would disagree that it is never a good idea to leave anything in an unattended vehicle, especially not anything of...

Posted on August 4, 2011 in

Having a field day

Anesthesiologist Frederick George Field was arrested late July on suspicion of sexually abusing two female patients who were under his care at the Mid-Columbia...

Posted on July 6, 2011 in

How to avoid medical mistakes

The “July effect” is not sunburn or dehydration but instead refers to the increase in fatalities and medical mishaps at teaching hospitals.Why? Well, a...

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