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The FDA is issuing new warnings for the diabetes drug Actos, warning potential users of a higher risk of developing bladder cancer associated with prolonged use of this drug.  Bloomberg News is reporting that the manufacturer of the drug may face as many as 10,000 lawsuits in the United States over the increased cancer risk.  …

An Illinois federal judge affirmed an $8.2 million verdict in a wrongful death claim against the United States and a hospital in St. Louis over the failure to diagnose an abscess behind the plaintiff’s abdomen. The suit names the United States because the St. Louis hospital operation a program in conjunction with a Southern Illinois …

An Illinois plaintiff has filed suit in Madison County Illinois against a local hospital for wrongful death, claiming that the hospital’s negligence lead to her mother’s death. According to the suit, the victim was hospitalized and classified as a fall risk, which prompted staff to attach a close call clip to her gown that would …

A Chicago hospital faces a wrongful death suit, filed last month in an Illinois Circuit Court, which claims that the hospital doctors and staff failed to diagnose bacterial meningitis. According to the suit, the plaintiff went to the hospital seeking medical treatment for symptoms of headaches and vomiting. Doctors and nurses gave him pain and …

The family of a man killed in a botched lung transplant surgery last year has filed a wrongful death suit against the University of Maryland Medical Center and a subcontractor involved in the surgery. In the suit, the family alleges that a contracted staffer incorrectly removed a clamp at the end of the surgery which …

After 15 years of practice, a Michigan doctor made a mistake that cost one man his life. This week, a jury in Michigan found him guilty of negligence and awarded the man’s family $1.5 million in damages. The victim was only 43 years old when he was hospitalized with complaints of chest pains. According to …

A New York family recently settled a lawsuit for $2 million against a hospital in Brooklyn over the June 2008 death of a woman in the center’s emergency room. The suit alleges negligence on behalf of the city-owned hospital and emergency room staff who made the woman wait for nearly 24 hours for medical attention. …

For at least the second time this year, an Illinois hospital faces a wrongful death suit where the family cited hospital and staff negligence as the cause for victim death. A widow filed suit in February against the hospital, a doctor, and two nurses over the death of her husband due to respiratory failure. She …

A surgeon thought he was doing a good thing when he agreed to perform a risky brain stem operation on a teenage boy in October 2006. The much publicized procedure was the surgeon’s attempt to gain positive publicity after doctors in Moscow discovered a tumor in the teenage boy’s brain stem, which interfered with his …

The parents of an infant received a damages award of $4.4 million this week after a jury ruled that the Rock Hill, South Carolina hospital and its staff was negligent during their daughter’s November 2003 birth. The medical malpractice suit alleges that the baby suffered a permanent brain injury from a lack of oxygen because …