Year: 2015

When patients in Connecticut receive the wrong medication from their health care providers, the consequences can be serious and even deadly. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, adverse events from the use of medications are...

When a Connecticut patient is diagnosed with cancer, the diagnosis typically includes a specific stage. The stage that a patient’s cancer is in represents how severe the cancer is and how much it has spread in the patient’s body. Staging...

Every year, many Connecticut residents undergo visual cancer screening by their doctors in order to determine if suspicious-looking moles and other apparent skin abnormalities are cancerous. While these types of screenings are quite common, a govern...

Connecticut doctors will sometimes prescribe morphine for pain relief to patients who are getting treatment. As an opiate, morphine is highly effective with relieving pain, but it can be deadly for certain groups of people. Doctors need to be especi...

Connecticut residents likely understand that medical tests are not foolproof and inaccurate results are a possibility, but they may be dismayed to find that many of the tests performed in labs across the country have not been reviewed or approved by...

Some individuals in Connecticut may have experienced one or more of the most common misdiagnoses that doctors make. Lung, breast and colorectal cancer are frequently misdiagnosed, and this often happens because doctors do not follow up with a biopsy...

When Connecticut residents are injured in an accident because of the negligence of someone else, they may be able to seek compensation for costs relating to the accident. Personal injury lawsuits might involve motor vehicle crashes, dog bites or sli...

Connecticut residents might be very surprised to learn that a recent study revealed a significant rate of medication errors during surgeries at a hospital known for excellent patient safety practices. The details for nearly 300 surgeries at a Massac...

Connecticut residents who may have colon or rectal cancer may wrongly believe that they only have a bad case of hemorrhoids. This is because they have many of the same symptoms including a change in bowel movements and pain or discomfort in the rect...

Connecticut residents who have suffered injury, loss or damage caused by the negligent actions of a physician or other medical professional may in many cases want to seek civil remedies by initiating a medical malpractice lawsuit. In order for this...

A study recently completed by a leading medical malpractice insurer found that the majority of orthopedic surgery medical malpractice claims are due to allegations of improper surgical procedures, and the researchers also discovered that there are m...