A young man whose legs were partially amputated as the result of a necrotizing fasciitis infection, which involves a flesh-eating bacteria, has filed medical malpractice lawsuits against a number of…
A new study indicates that antibiotic-resistant hospital infections can cost hospitals $61,000 to treat and may increase the risk of death for patients seven-fold.
U.S. researchers indicate that there has been a 90% increase in antibiotic-resistant “superbug” infections since 1999, as strains circulating both in hospitals and the community continue relatively unabated.
New research suggests that many patients discharged from a hospital into home health care are sent home with a drug-resistant staph infection known as MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, and…
A confidential settlement has been reached in a Florida medical malpractice lawsuit involving allegations that a woman contracted a flesh-eating infection during the delivery of her child, resulting in the…
Since November 2008, dozens of mothers and newborn babies have developed hospital MRSA infections after being treated at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, which has been cited for…
A Florida medical malpractice lawsuit has been filed against doctors who failed to properly diagnose a man with a MRSA skin infection, which ultimately led to his death.
