Hurricane Sandy smashed through the Caribbean and into the East Coast of the United States Oct. 28 through 30, killing several hundred people in its path and causing widespread destruction of homes, businesses and public facilities that is expected to total more than $50 billion. Our neighbors in New Jersey and New York were particularly…

Each year, some 4,000 surgical patients in the United States are seriously injured when items used during their procedures, from sponges to medical instruments, are accidentally left inside their bodies when their medical teams sew them back up. The problem of retained surgical items has been an issue for years and has led surgeons and…

After getting routine steroid shots to treat various aches and pains, 21 patients from across the United States have died from fungal meningitis connected to contaminated steroid medications provided by a Boston-area pharmacy. So far, 268 cases of the fungal meningitis from the contaminated injectable medications have been reported with more continuing to come in,…

When you rent a car, truck or SUV for a vacation, business trip or other need, you expect that the vehicle is well-maintained and safe to drive. It’s just a common sense expectation. But until recently, that expectation could have been very, very wrong. In the United States, there are presently no laws that forbid…

The family of a 53-year-old woman who died after surgery won a $6 million jury verdict in York County in a recent wrongful death case against the medical team that treated her. In what is believed to be the largest York County jury award in several years, the jury ruled in favor of the family…

Serious infections after liposuction surgery have caused the death of one patient and sickened two others, forcing the closing of a Timonium, Md., medical facility while authorities work to determine how the death and illnesses could have occurred. Officials at the Monarch Medspa surgery center “are cooperating as Maryland and Baltimore County health officials investigate…