A $4.1 million medical malpractice judgment was awarded for negligence by a Tennessee nursing home.

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The Chicago Accident Law Blog takes up the argument that Internet prescription drug overdoses are a threat to public health in the United States.

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Laws in several states mandating disclosure of medical errors protect physicians to apologize and offer expressions of grief without their words being used against them in court.

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The Health Care Law Blog brings news of a new Kentucky case, reiterating the legal principle that medical expert testimony is not always necessary to show negligence (medical malpractice).

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Personalized medicine is also known as “pharmacogenomics,” and now is bringing together legal and ethical experts.

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An article in Neurology warns that class-action lawsuits unnecessarily impede important scientific discoveries.

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A jury awarded $1.5 million in a negligence and medical malpractice lawsuit against two physician assistants, a pediatrician and Southeastern Regional Medical Center.

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Negligent supervision of non-physician health care providers (such as nurses) can be a basis for a medical malpractice (negligence)lawsuit, whether the therapy involved is conventional or complementary (alternative).

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