UPDATE On Fertility Clinic That Enabled Mother of Octuplets
The Medical Board of California is investigating the fertility clinic that is said to have helped Nadya Suleman conceive all 14 of her children, according to whittierdailynews.com, of Whittier, California. The Board disclosed that it wants to determine whether the act of implanting such a high volume of embryos violated the standard of care.
News to Begin the Week
Did the fertility docs who impregnated the California woman who just birthed octuplets commit medical malpractice? In light of the mother’s reproductive history, that is a question that merits serious consideration, according to Washington State’s News Tribune. Head of Illinois Trial Lawyers speaks out against tort reform that unfairly penalizes those plaintiffs who are most in [...]
U.S. Court of Appeals for D.C. Thwarts Access to Morbidity/Mortality Findings
The consumerist group, Consumers’ Checkbook/Center for the Study of Services won its lawsuit in 2007 forcing the Dept. of Health and Human Services to release Medicare claims data which would have allowed researchers to determine the frequency with which physicians in several states performed certain procedures, and what results were achieved, according to today’s Medical [...]