Unhappy with the slow pace of improvements at a Veterans Administration (VA) hospital in Miami, where thousands of veterans were exposed to unsterilized colonoscopy equipment in 2009, lawmakers are calling for the ouster of the center’s director. …
Although thousands of veterans were told in 2009 that they may have been exposed to infected blood and or treated by a “rogue” cancer unit that was using radiation treatment without knowing what it was doing, some researchers say that 2009 was a good year for U.S. veterans hospitals when it came to surgical errors. …
A Virginia doctor faces a medical malpractice lawsuit for perforating a woman’s large intestine and puncturing her bladder during a hysterectomy. …
Federal regulators are proposing new guidelines for cleaning reusable medical equipment, particularly endoscopes, which can be a source for acquiring hospital infections. …
Medical malpractice lawsuits have been filed against the Philadelphia VA Medical Center, Dr. Gary Kao and the University of Pennsylvania by veterans who say they were the victims of botched radiation therapy by a rogue cancer unit at the VA hospital. …
The Veterans Affairs Department has downgraded the complexity of surgeries that five VA hospitals are allowed to perform following an investigation stemming from the death of a number of patients at a southern Illinois facility. …
A 66-year old California man who is now confined to a wheelchair as a result of spinal surgery errors involving the use of Surgifoam at the Veterans Administration (VA) Medical Center in West Los Angeles, was awarded $4.34 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit.…
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has promised to compensate veterans who were mistakenly notified that they have Lou Gehrig’s disease due to a VA medical mistake acknowledged earlier this week.…
The U.S. government has reportedly settled a VA hospital malpractice lawsuit with the wife of a veteran who died from a blood infection following a biopsy at an Illinois Veterans Affairs facility, where all major surgeries were stopped two years ago after a string of medical mistakes were discovered.…
A Vietnam veteran and former Special Forces officer has presented a claim against the federal government in connection with botched cancer treatments performed by what has been referred to as a “rogue” cancer unit at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center.…
