Today my article will focus on medical negligence following a number of recent high profile cases and inquests. Medical negligence is essentially an act or omission by a health care professional which is below the accepted standard of care and which results in injury...
Professional negligence arises when professionals deal with their services negligently resulting in a loss by the client/patient. Professionals, such as solicitors, accountants, architects, engineers, doctors and so on, have a duty of care towards their clients who...
At the start of the year the Irish Medicines Board announced that a reported 32 women in Ireland have experienced unintentional pregnancies while implanted with the implanon contraceptive device. The defects in these devices came to light in Britain where 1,607 women...
UK experts, Mr. David J. Langton, MRCS at University Hospital of North Tees and Dr. Thomas Joyce, Mechanical Engineer at Newcastle University, spoke to DePuy patients at an International DePuy Hip Implant Recall Conference in the Horse and Jockey Hotel Conference...
At the end of 2010 it was estimated that the likely failure rate for the DePuy ASR hip implant stood at 13% after five years. However, at the British Hip Society Annual Conference in early March the UK experts produced new research which indicates a much higher than...
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