UPDATES & INSIGHTS

Whenever the Food and Drug Administration believes that a product is contaminated with a dangerous ingredient or bacteria, it typically issues a recall for that product. Recently, the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention together issued such a recall on peanut butter and other nut butter products, popular grocery items in New […]

A New Jersey family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against an assisted living facility in Morris County. The wrongful death lawsuit claims that the woman, 85 years old, was treated negligently, including being choked by a male patient and left on the floor for hours without receiving care. She died five days following the […]

New Jersey parents should be aware of a toy known as a Water Balz that has recently become the center of scrutiny by some doctors and the media. Reports of injury from the toy are becoming more prevalent. Water Balz are said to be targeted for older children, ages 4 years and older. Unfortunately, children […]

As the gap between available healthcare and needed healthcare continues to widen, physician assistants and nurse practitioners are seeing more and more patients in place of doctors. While some experts are confident that these mid-level providers are capable of filling about 80 percent of a doctor’s role, others are more skeptical. Many people do not […]

There are many products that may be deemed dangerous, but products claiming to be “all natural” should be the least of a consumer’s worries. Recently, however, two products sold as being “natural” dietary supplements have come under the scrutiny of the Food and Drug Administration and have been declared a dangerous product due to certain […]

Children and teenagers involved in sports may sustain cuts and scrapes that go along with such playtime. Unfortunately, in some cases, there are extenuating circumstances involved in athletics that can cause more extreme injuries, including brain injuries. Such is the case for one New Jersey teenager who sustained a brain injury while playing in a […]

Woodland Park parents may feel that they are doing the best thing for their kids by providing healthy snacks such as apple slices. For the most part, they’d be right. Even fast food and grocery locations now have packaged apple slices as regular items that are popular with parents and kids. Recently, a large quantity […]

“Let’s get an x-ray of that.” Millions of patients have gone under the beam to help their physician diagnose an illness or injury. But most of the time these days, the doctor isn’t ordering a plain old x-ray, but a more sophisticated and accurate CT scan. Accuracy comes with a price. A single CT scan […]

San Diego Chargers team physician David Chao, M.D. faces the suspension or revocation of his license to practice medicine for what California regulators call “acts of gross negligence” against three patients in 2007 and 2010. The California medical board’s action is the latest blow to Chao, who recently lost a malpractice suit by a patient who […]

When the terms medical malpractice or medical negligence are heard, people most often think of surgical errors, incorrect records, or birth injuries. One area of medicine that may be overlooked is in the area of prescription management. Doctors must be equally as ethical in their handling of prescription drugs as they are with any other […]