New Mexico residents are likely aware that many medical conditions can become extremely serious and even life-threatening when they are not diagnosed in a timely manner. Potentially serious ailments often go undiagnosed because sufferers delay seeking medical...
New Mexico residents may be surprised to learn that medication errors occurred in almost half of the surgeries studied by a group of Harvard researchers. The results are even more concerning because the errors were made during surgical procedures performed at...
When New Mexico patients who have been harmed in a health care setting want to sue for malpractice, they must first prove that the facility or provider owed them a duty of care. A patient's medical records typically provide this information by showing that the person...
According to the results of a study done by a leading medical malpractice insurance company, 46 percent of orthopedic surgery medical malpractice claims are related to improper surgical performance, and 16 percent of claims are for improper patient management...
Male and female physicians in New Mexico may find the results of a BMC Medicine study startling. The researchers analyzed 32 reports about medical malpractice, and they discovered that legal complaints and lawsuits named male physicians as defendants 2.5 times more...
According to a study involving almost 174,000 women in the Netherlands, the stage at which breast cancer is detected significantly affects how long the women will survive following diagnosis and treatment. Women in New Mexico might be surprised that these results are...
When New Mexico patients go in for surgery, they often do not expect that there may be complications. One complication that can occur is a surgical site infection which, while relatively uncommon, can be harmful. Although surgical site infections can be serious, they...
According to a new University of Arizona study, bicycle riders in New Mexico and across the U.S. reduce their odds of a severe traumatic brain injury by 58 percent when they wear a helmet. The research was presented at the 2015 Clinical Congress of the American...
Accident victims in New Mexico may be affected by recent research conducted on the nature of brain injuries. Biomedical engineers from Columbia University are now attempting to change many of the common misconceptions held about the brain. Rather than describing the...
New Mexico patients who have been the victims of medical malpractice may be interested to know that in September 2015, the New Jersey Supreme Court made a ruling that could establish an important precedent. The court decided that doctors who aren't covered by...
