News & Blogs

According to Forbes Magazine , HealthGrades has ranked American hospitals based on quality of care and lack of complications.  Here in New York, New York Presbyterian was the only hospital to make the... Read More

According to today’s Business Wire , Physicians’ Reciprocal Insurers, the “ second-largest medical malpractice writer in New York State and one of the leaders in the nation,” has published a book entitled, PRACTICING MEDICINE IN... Read More

In a case decided on January 22, 2009, the Appellate Division, Third Department, affirmed the trial court’s granting of plaintiff’s motion to set aside a defense verdict, based on defense... Read More

MEDICAL MALPRACTICE PREMIUMS DOWN NATIONWIDE- Renal and Urology News  reports that premiums have stabilized for most physicians, and that over 40% actually paid lower premiums over the last year.  The report was based on... Read More

In one of the saddest, and most infuriating pieces of bad news to emerge from Iraq to date, it turns out that a highly decorated, 24-year-old Green Beret died after... Read More

According to today’s U.S. News & World Report , the FDA has approved the first human trial using embryonic stem cells .  A California company, Geron Corp., will implant the stem cells in paraplegics.  The hope is... Read More

In the January 22, 2009 online issue of the  New England Journal of Medicine , Dr. Robert Steinbrook discusses how physicians and medical institutions can profitably use the internet to disclose information concerning relationships... Read More

The good news is that VA health centers around the country have begun implementing the use of electronic medical records for their patients.  The bad news is that since a... Read More