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A former Boston pediatrician has been accused in a lawsuit of performing “medically unnecessary genital examinations” during a 20-year-span in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. The malpractice and sexual abuse suit claims the doctor “inappropriately touched the children” and that Children’s Hospital Boston officials failed to properly supervise him. The suit is seeking unspecified damages. |
| A medical malpractice lawsuit has been filed against Catholic Healthcare West, Methodist Hospital in south Sacramento and various emergency room workers for delayed treatment of a young child. The suit, filed by the girl’s parents, claims they waited five hours in the emergency room with their daughter, who was infected with Streptococcus A. When medical care finally came, the suit says, the toddler had to have parts of all four of her limbs amputated. The suit is seeking unspecified damages. |
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A California man has filed a lawsuit against Valley Surgical Center after his wife died following a Lap-Band weight-loss surgery. The lawsuit claims the woman’s liver was lacerated multiple times during the procedure, but she was not informed afterward. The Los Angeles Times reports the death was the fourth related to the procedure conducted at the center. The lawsuit is seeking unspecified damages. |
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An Alabama jury has awarded $2.4 million to a local mother whose 2-year-old child died in 2007 after ingesting methadone. The child was taken to the emergency room of Medical Center East in May 2007 after accidentally ingesting a methadone tablet. The suit claims the doctors negligently discharged the child after only a few hours of monitoring, and he died a few hours later. The emergency room doctor “failed to take the proper steps” to ensure the boy was healthy, the suit alleged. |
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American Regent has initiated a recall of 10mL single-dose vials of Sodium Thiosulfate injections. The company issued the recall after it was discovered that some of the vials contained “visible particles consistent with glass delamination.” If used, the doses can cause damage to blood vessels in the lungs. |
A $2.5 million settlement has been reached in a medical malpractice lawsuit against a psychiatrist at Tufts Medical Center in Boston. The suit was filed against Dr. Kayoko Kifuji and claimed she was responsible for prescribing psychiatric drugs to a 4-year-old girl that resulted in her death. The girl’s parents were both convicted of murdering their daughter through “reckless dispensing of the drugs.” Kifuji was not charged criminally in the case.
A Virginia woman has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against a plastic surgeon who allegedly gave her the wrong-sized breast implants. The lawsuit claims a doctor at a Nevada hospital “shorted her by 50 cubic centimeters” during her 2009 breast augmentation. The plaintiff is seeking $150,000 in damages.
A $2.3 million settlement has been reached in a medical malpractice lawsuit filed against the federal government over a child born with neurological disorders at a military hospital. The suit claimed staff at Portsmouth Naval Medical Center left a pregnant woman with fetal abnormalities unattended for over an hour. When doctors finally performed an emergency cesarean section, the child had already suffered permanent damage, according to the lawsuit.
A Puerto Rico jury has ruled that Pfizer Inc. must pay $1.5 million in damages to a pharmacist who allegedly developed breast cancer from the company’s menopause drug. The jury found that Pfizer did not “properly warn the woman and her doctors about the health risks of its Prempro menopause medicine.” This is the eighth case Pfizer has lost since 2006 regarding Prempro.
A class-action lawsuit has been filed in San Antonio, Texas, against the Texas Health Department, claiming the agency illegally sold newborn blood samples. According to the lawsuit, the department “sold, traded, bartered, and distributed blood samples” in exchange for “fees, lab equipment and other purposes.” The sale was an unlawful search and seizure, the suit states. This is the second lawsuit this decade filed against the department involving the use of children’s blood.
