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Dr. William Thompson is a man largely ignored by media outlets. He is a senior scientist for the CDC and in his career, he has published some of the most widely cited vaccine studies. Two, in fact, were the most commonly cited during the controversy over the MMR vaccine and autism. Those articles were written…

A Houston doctor is being sued by three families who are accusing the doctor and the hospital the doctor works for of mishandling their babies’ deliveries. One baby died and the other two have lifelong injuries to deal with. Dr. June Williams Colman and the East Houston Regional Medical Center, where each woman gave birth.…

Last week, a woman who was forced to have her leg amputated as a result of medical malpractice was awarded $25 million by a Connecticut jury. Court documents tell a heartbreaking story. In 2009, Virginia Schneider, then 18, saw Dr. Marsel Huribal, complaining of pain in her left leg. The doctor failed to diagnose Schneider…

A man who lost the lower parts of both of his legs has been awarded nearly $9 million in what an attorney has called the largest malpractice verdict in the history of Butler County, Pennsylvania. According to court documents, Todd Wogan suffered from a colovesical fistula. He went to Butler Memorial Hospital in January 2012…

A doctor in Chicago has been found guilty of medical malpractice after authorities discovered that he had been using homemade vaccines for children with allergies for more than 10 years. Dr. Ming Te Lin was found guilty of administering unapproved vaccines to children as young as seven days old. The oral vaccines were made with…

As residents of the coastal states work to clean up the damage that Hurricane Matthew left in its wake, people in New York and other states will begin to offer their assistance. If you plan on counting yourself among those who will donate to the relief efforts, it is important that you do so wisely.…

Jason Simcakoski was prescribed approximately 14 different drugs when he visited the Wisconsin Veterans Affairs facility. He later died despite his family’s concerns that he was too sedate when they visited him. The family is now suing the facility, alleging medical malpractice. According to documents, Simcakoski was diagnosed, among other drugs, Suboxone. the drug is…

It is unusual for a supreme court to go ahead with a case that has been settled, but that’s what is happening in Florida right now. According to documents, the original case began when a patient escaped from a psychiatric hospital, ran onto Interstate 75, and was struck and killed by a truck. The case…

Three Lake County, Indiana cardiologists are facing three wrongful death allegations and over 24 medical malpractice lawsuits. The three stand accused of performing unnecessary procedures at Community Hospital in Munster. Dr. Wail Asfour, Dr. Arving Gandhi, and Dr. Satyaprakash Makam, all associates of Munster Medical Research Foundation, Inc. and Northwest Indiana, PC, are named in…

A graduate student customized graphene nanoribbons for medical use, and the technology is now being researched as a way to help victims of spinal cord injury. William Sikkema, a grad student at Rice University, is credited with the customization and is a co-lead author of the paper published by Surgical Neurology International. The Experiment Many…