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A new study says most elderly residents of assisted-living or residential care facilities are not receiving all of the medications they need for four potentially life-threatening conditions.

Medical malpractice has become a political football, one that's been kicked around in the presidential campaigns and debates. For the Republicans, curbing medical malpractice and other "frivolous" suits is a key theme of the campaign. Four states will vote Nov. 2 on whether to enact legislation limiting such lawsuits.

A jury in Harris County, Texas rejected a woman's claim that a vaginal delivery caused nerve damage to her newborn daughter.

A Rockland County, New York couple received a settlement of $2.5 million on the ninth day of a medical malpractice trial.

Do caps on medical malpractice damage awards hold down doctors' liability insurance premiums? The nation's largest medical malpractice insurer says they don't.

The family of a Fort Worth, Texas, woman who died after she was given a drug against doctor's orders reached a pre-trial financial settlement with Harris Methodist HEB Hospital.

The New Jersey Appellate Division has upheld tighter state regulations governing the use of anesthesia during procedures performed in a doctor's office.

Addressing the rising cost of health care should be one of the top items on the domestic agenda for the new Congress, according to a national poll from the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association (BCBSA).

An investigation conducted by the Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU) has resulted in the arrests of several employees and the director of the G.B. Cooley Intermediate Care Facility for the Mentally Retarded in West Monroe, Louisiana.

A University of Pennsylvania researcher says patients taking Pfizer's Bextra may double their risk of suffering a heart attack or stroke. The company called the claim "unsubstantiated" and said a recent analysis found no cardiovascular problems among arthritis patients taking Bextra.

Congress has taken up the probe of how an FDA-approved drug like Vioxx could turn out to be harmful to the people who take it. The trail appears to be leading to the FDA's door.

New studies indicate Bayer AG was too slow to pull Baycol from the market in 2001, when some patients taking the drug developed a severe and sometimes fatal muscle disorder. In a related development, a prestigious medical journal is calling for a new independent agency to monitor drug safety.

New England Patriots offensive coordinator Charlie Weis has filed a malpractice suit against five Massachusetts General surgeons who performed a gastric bypass operation that went awry in 2002.

A new report finds no link between doctors' rising insurance premiums and medical malpractice lawsuits filed by injured patients.

State officials are responding sharply to a study that suggests doctors are victims of price-gouging by insurance companies who continue to raise malpractice insurance premiums even as claims decline.

It?s hard enough battling cancer, but a new report in the medical journal Cancer maintains that doctors make diagnosis errors in more than one in ten cases of the disease. The report says in many of these cases, the error resulted in patient harm.

In official documents filed with state regulators and in statements to public officials, medical malpractice insurance companies consistently inflated the amount they estimated they would pay out in claims, according to a study released by the nonprofit Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR).

The D.C. Medical Society (MSDC) has grossly understated the number of obstetricians practicing in the District, according to a survey released by Public Citizen.

Each year as many as 1.5 million Americans suffer illness, injury or death because of mistakes made in prescribing, dispensing and taking prescription drugs, according to a report by the Institute of Medicine.

Ten years after a 14-year-old took ill at sea, her lawsuit against Carnival has reached the Supreme Court.