Was it because the doctor received an all-expenses paid trip to the Bahamas for a "medical conference", funded by the pharmaceutical company, or does the doctor truly believe the medication will assist the medical condition?

It's called the Justice Department's Opioid Fraud and Abuse Detection Unit. The unit provides authorities in 12 regions with information on which doctors are prescribing the most, how far patients will travel to see them and whether any have died within 60 days of receiving a prescription.

Insulin test results for Caliel Smith Kwami were not known when he was sent home with his mother Sabreena Smith on August 2 last year.

Sarah and Jack Hawkins always believed that mistakes by staff at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust had led to their daughter's death, but it has taken almost two years for an independent report to reach the same conclusion.

With liability for errors leading to the injury accepted, it is thought the settlement is the biggest of its kind in Northern Ireland. The claim was brought over delays in her birth when her condition began to deteriorate in 2008.

Malak Thawley, a teacher and US citizen (34), was expecting her first baby at the time of her death on May 8th 2016.

Kevin Greenfield has been left unable to walk and has to use a wheelchair after doctors performed emergency surgery to drain the abscess - more than 24-hours after he was admitted to hospital.

The HHS is, unsurprisingly, trying to frame this change as a win for religious freedom — as opposed to what many others would argue as a slash in the health and human rights of women and trans people.

Lilian Hugill, 84, was admitted with a urine infection but died while attempting to eat the sandwich after staff failed to notice she was not wearing her false teeth.

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, paid out £39,010,238.56 in damages and legal costs between 2012 and 2017.

The unfortunate incident occurred at about 8:30 p.m. around Exclusive Stores in Wuse 2 when Mr. Kalu went in company of his newly wedded wife and brother-in-law went out.

She saw her doctors in Basildon a number of times and after she had a baby her symptoms of bleeding and stomach aches got worse.

Five medical staff -- two doctors and three nurses -- at Ewha Women's University Hospital will be charged with involuntary manslaughter due to negligence over the deaths, officials said.

According to a federal lawsuit he filed last week, Turner was halfway through an examination when a wave of severe abdominal pain hit him. The procedure was stopped, and doctors took a closer look.

The child was starved of oxygen to the brain during delivery at the hospital in Dundonald, in east Belfast, in 2008 and developed severe cerebral palsy.

Her attorney, Michel Chebat, told us her complaint was against Dr. Gilberto Landero, a medical practioner who is still working at the Western Regional Hospital.