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Albuquerque Medical Malpractice Law Blog
Symptoms and causes of cerebral palsy
A child develops cerebral palsy because of damage to the brain late in fetal development or during delivery. When a child in New Mexico is born with cerebral palsy, the cause may not always be clear. However, there are situations in which incidents that happened...
Tips medical staff can use to prevent medication errors
Annually, there are an estimated seven million patients who are victims of medication errors. Medication errors cost healthcare providers in New Mexico and throughout the country $21 billion per year. However, it is believed that up to 25% of those mistakes could be...
Cluster headaches and why they are so misdiagnosed
Residents of New Mexico who experience frequent headaches may have a neurological condition known as cluster headache. Cluster headache attacks can last between 15 minutes and three hours, can occur several times a day and are so excruciating that many have compared...
Medical updates in predicting Parkinson disease
Although Parkinson's disease can have major impacts on a person's life in New Mexico or elsewhere, diagnosing the disease and predicting the progression of the disease is difficult. According to polls, approximately 25 percent of those with Parkinson disease are...
NFL players too often misdiagnosed with CTE
Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health believe that many football players are being misdiagnosed with a brain condition called chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. New Mexico residents should know that CTE, which is caused by continual trauma to the...
What are brachial plexus injuries?
During the labor and delivery process, some children in New Mexico might suffer brachial plexus injuries. These injuries may cause ongoing problems and require surgical repairs and nerve transfers, depending on the type. The brachial plexus is a group of nerves that...
Vascular events, infections, cancers all prone to misdiagnosis
New Mexico residents know that there's always the risk of having a medical condition misdiagnosed. However, this risk is especially high among cancers, vascular events and infections. Investigators at Johns Hopkins University led a recent study analyzing the rate of...
Failure to diagnose throat cancer may be actionable
As with most medical treatments, the treatment of cancer is more likely to be successful if the disease is identified early. For people in New Mexico with some rare types of cancer, though, misdiagnosis or failure to diagnose can cause delays in treatment and allow...
Common cancers that affect the feet
Foot cancer is not unheard of. Residents of New Mexico should know that cancer of the foot can develop for a variety of reasons: sun exposure, chemical exposure, genetics and viruses, to name a few. Below are the three most common types of cancer that affect the feet...
Penicillin allergy may actually be quite rare
New Mexico residents might now know that about one in 10 people in New Mexico and around the country think they are allergic to penicillin, but the results of a health care study suggest that very few of them actually are. Between September 2018 and June 2019, doctors...
