Sometimes during pregnancy or labor, a fetus may appear to receive an insufficient amount of oxygen. This, parents in New Mexico should know, is called fetal distress. It should not be confused with birth asphyxia, where a baby is deprived of oxygen for a definite...
Doctor or hospital errors of one sort or another claim the lives of more than 250,000 people each year in New Mexico and around the country according to a 2016 study from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. This figure would make medical mistakes the third...
When you have a surgical procedure done by a New Mexico doctor, you expect that it will be conducted in a professional manner. While it is impossible to guarantee that a mistake won't happen, steps should be taken to minimize the chances that they occur. If they are...
People in New Mexico with Graves' disease are dealing with a debilitating medical condition that can be frustrating and difficult to manage. Graves' disease is an autoimmune disease that causes the body to produce too much of the thyroid hormone, causing an overactive...
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...
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...
