On behalf of Crandall & Pera Law, LLC | Apr 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
A potential decision made by the US Supreme Court on a current case regarding patenting human genes could affect the health and lives of every American. Myriad Genetics currently controls the patents on variations of two human genes – BRCA1 and BRCA2 –...
On behalf of Crandall & Pera Law, LLC | Apr 29, 2013 | Uncategorized
Hospitals may have little incentive to improve upon preventable surgical complications and mistakes because of the revenue they receive for longer stays and extra care from insurers, according to a new study published in The Journal of the American Medical...
On behalf of Crandall & Pera Law, LLC | Apr 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
While health officials advise abstinence, an occasional, small amount of alcohol during pregnancy may have zero effect on a child’s development, according to a recent study published in BJOG, an international obstetrics and gynecology journal. One in five...
On behalf of Crandall & Pera Law, LLC | Apr 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
With hospital re-admissions costing the health care system more than $15 billion a year, a health coaching experiment in southern Ohio is aiming to lower the rate of returns by visiting patients at home. The Care Transitions program, managed by the Council on Aging of...
On behalf of Crandall & Pera Law, LLC | Apr 24, 2013 | Uncategorized
Antibiotic-resistant superbugs dubbed “nightmare bacteria” by federal health officials have been found present in about 40 patients since July at a transitional-care hospital in Louisville, Kentucky. Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, or CRE...
On behalf of Crandall & Pera Law, LLC | Apr 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
Medical mistakes that affect hundreds of thousands of patients in the U.S. every year are typically kept quiet by hospitals, but Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston is instead airing its mistakes in a monthly newsletter for its 16,000 employees. Many...
On behalf of Crandall & Pera Law, LLC | Apr 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
In order to make the most of your annual physical exam, you should be spending more time having a conversation with your doctor in order to build a relationship rather than just having your body examined. Dr. Richard Besser, M.D., who spent 18 years at the Centers for...
On behalf of Crandall & Pera Law, LLC | Apr 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
Two Atlanta-based trucking companies have been shut down by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration for failing to cooperate with safety investigators in the past month. General Transportation, Inc. was deemed an imminent safety hazard while Southern...
On behalf of Crandall & Pera Law, LLC | Apr 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
Tort reform measures to reduce “defensive medicine” that will, in turn, increase the risk of birth injuries nationwide persist even after a recent report by the non-partisan Commonwealth Fund ranks the costly U.S. health system dead last on patient safety....
On behalf of Crandall & Pera Law, LLC | Apr 17, 2013 | Uncategorized
Emergency rooms have largely been blamed for excessive health care costs, but popular cost-cutting measures may be doing more harm than good for patient care, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Reducing ER visits for...
