Recent Posts in the Medical Malpractice Category

• New Jersey Hospital Pays Family of 5-Year-old $12.5 Million for Botched Surgery

  Jul 7, 2020
  A routine tonsillectomy resulted in a 5-year-old losing his leg in April 2015. The child underwent surgery at St. Barnabas Medical Center in ...
  Posted By Thomas P. Giuffra
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• Warnings and Precautions for Invokana (Canagliflozin)

  Aug 23, 2017
  Invokana has now been associated with several amputations. As of May 2017, the FDA has sounded the alarm by adding warnings for this severe side ...
  Posted By Rheingold, Giuffra, Ruffo & Plotkin, LLP,
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• Republican Bill Slashes Rights of Medical Malpractice Victims

  Jul 11, 2017
  The severe consequences of medical errors have come with an enormous cost. The British Medical Journal reported that medical error is the third ...
  Posted By Giselle Conejo
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• Neonatal Herpes and Circumcision

  Mar 15, 2017
  By: Rheingold, Giuffra, Ruffo & Plotkin LLP Male circumcision is an ancient practice. It involves removing the foreskin from a human penis. While some ...
  Posted By Rheingold, Valet, Rheingold, Ruffo & Giuffra LLP
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• Study Shows Outpatient Surgical Centers Pose Health Risk

  Dec 23, 2016
  A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) showed that 68% of 68 ambulatory surgical centers studied exhibited at ...
  Posted By Rheingold, Giuffra, Ruffo & Plotkin LLP
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• Study finds birth injuries are the most common cause of autism

  Dec 20, 2016
  Birth injuries are a terrifying experience. You go through this incredible experience only to have it marred by a medical error. In fact, many birth ...
  Posted By Rheingold, Valet, Rheingold, Ruffo & Giuffra LLP
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• Social media abuse of nursing home residents

  Dec 19, 2016
  There are many types of abuse, and not all of them involve neglect or outright physical harm. And now there are reports of nursing home residents ...
  Posted By Rheingold, Valet, Rheingold, Ruffo & Giuffra LLP
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• Putting medical error deaths in context

  Dec 15, 2016
  There have been a number of highly popularized studies that variously put the number of fatalities due to medical errors at 250,000 and more. Some of ...
  Posted By Rheingold, Valet, Rheingold, Ruffo & Giuffra LLP
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