Taking medication to recover from an injury or treat a long-term illness is serious business. According to The Washington Post, almost 60 percent of Americans take prescription drugs each year. These medications can be immensely helpful, but they can also be potentially dangerous. If you forget to take pills at a certain time, mix them

Before a student can become a surgeon, they typically spend months conducting mock surgeries on human cadavers. Unfortunately, surgical students aren’t guaranteed to see specific conditions or diseases during the course of their cadaver studies. Rather, it’s the luck of the draw. Medical cadavers are also in relatively short supply. In some cases, students have

Over the next four years, the New York City Health and Hospitals public system could face a deficit of $6.1 billion according to recent projections from the New York City Independent Budget Office. This shortfall is expected in spite of the fact that the system – which runs 11 hospitals in the area – is

Medical malpractice cases typically involve a patient suing a physician or healthcare provider for negligence or improper treatment that resulted in unnecessary pain and suffering. Third parties rarely enter into the equation. But what if it was a third party, and not the patient, that suffered as a result of a doctor’s negligence? Could that