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Philadelphia Birth Injury Lawyer Jim Beasley Jr., MD, JD used his medical and legal knowledge to successfully evaluate a birth injury case that left a child with Cerebral Palsy, spastic diplasia, seizures and developmental delays. It was di ...

According to a study published in the August Issue of the AORN Journal, a journal for operating room nurses, the objective of the study was to identify potential failures or causes during a surgery that led to retained sponges after elective abd ...

Premature infants or babies born with esophageal, stomach or intestinal problems may not be able to nurse to receive a mother’s nutritional breast milk. However, that does not mean that they cannot have the breast milk, it just means that it has to ...

A medical malpractice lawsuit may be the only way a parent of a newborn who has suffered from a childbirth injury or hypoxic brain injury can afford the lifelong medical care and physical therapies needed after their infant suffered brain d ...

Our experienced birth injury attorneys in Philadelphia know what can cause infant cerebral palsy (CP). Usually, it is not the cephalohematoma, but the difficult labor that caused the cephalohematoma and cerebral palsy. A cephalohematoma is ...

Is it the pregnant woman’s responsibility to know if her water broke and if her unborn child could be at risk for an infection? NO. Any pregnant woman who is in her third trimester of a pregnancy, whether it be her first pregnancy or her fifth preg ...

A recent research study, printed in the Annals of Family Medicine, indicated that hot tea or coffee may have antimicrobial (anti-germ) properties. It was also found that people who drank hot tea or hot coffee had a lower risk of carrying the MRSA bac ...

Certain blood vessels or arteries in your body are major arteries that supply blood and oxygen to your brain. The vertebral and carotid arteries are those main blood vessels. The vertebral arteries are located on each side of your neck. If there is a ...

A Family Just Received a $7 Million Verdict After a Loved One Died of a Bowel Perforation After Surgery Bowel perforations during abdominal procedures such as hysterectomies, appendectomies, laparoscopic surgeries or colonoscopies may or may not be a ...

An umbilical cord prolapse (UCP) is when a baby’s umbilical cord, or lifeline, gets squeezed and it cuts off the vital blood supply and oxygen to your baby. Imagine that you are sipping refreshing water through a straw. Now, pinch off that straw wi ...

Reports have shown that the rate of sepsis or blood poisoning has more than doubled in the last 10 years. A bacterial infection in a cut, wound, laceration, incision, or in the lungs, abdomen, bladder or other part of the body, that is not ...

All Myriam Gastard, a postdoctorate fellow, research scientist, and neurobiologist, wanted to do was spend her life researching the possible causes of Alzheimer’s disease, but that dream was shattered after she briefly became a patient in a Pennsyl ...