cerebral-palsy

The year isn’t quite over, and already court records are filling up with incidents of medical malpractice. From Rhode Island to Florida and everywhere in between, our colleagues around the country have compiled quite a roster of medical malpractice cases. Despite the high level of education it takes to gain a medical degree, some doctors seem … Read more

Dennis is a research coordinator at Duke Integrative Medicine. He’s working on a National Institutes of Health-funded study regarding the effect of mindfulness training impacts a cluster of biobehavioral factors implicated in cardiovascular disease risk. A strong advocate of complementary medicine, he regularly practices medication as part of his mindful stress-reduction regimen, in addition to … Read more

We want to bring you some recent news that should be alarming to expecting mothers and women trying to become pregnant. Researchers have found a link between pre-eclampsia, a medical condition that affects 3% to 5% of pregnant women, and having a child born with cerebral palsy. A decade-long study of Norwegian women found that the … Read more

Cerebral palsy (CP) is often caused by one act of medical malpractice, the effects of which may last a lifetime. However, those stricken with CP and their families know that cerebral palsy is not something a person is, but something a person has. Parents of children with CP, especially, see the potential their child has despite … Read more

Healthcare has become a hot topic on Capitol Hill, and reform policy an issue of much debate. Central to the debate, certainly, are the ways in which healthcare costs may be cut without sacrificing quality. Lobbyists, specifically those on behalf of the medical insurance industry, have long argued that the price of healthcare is largely … Read more

Studies have shown that women who are pregnant may be more vulnerable to H1N1 due to body changes that occur during pregnancy. Results from three new studies, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, on critically ill patients who contracted H1N1 showed that for some people H1N1 was only a mild case of … Read more