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Your pregnancy should be a time of joy and celebration, and while you are looking forward to the birth of your child, you also want to ensure that you and your baby are healthy. Your doctor should be performing certain tests to monitor your baby’s growth and health,...
Cerebral palsy, the most common childhood disability, damages the neurological and musculoskeletal functions of your child’s developing brain. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, such impaired physical functions have four categories: stiff...
Losing a child is devastating and can cause trauma to surviving parents. Unfortunately, before some parents can even hold their children, they lose them at the hands of a negligent medical practitioner. This event causes economic and noneconomic damages, and it is...
When you go to the doctor for a wellness check, surgical intervention, proper diagnosis or other form of treatment, you do so with the assumption that you will receive quality care. You only get one body, and you place a lot of trust in the doctors and other...
A Cesarean section or C-section is a procedure where an obstetrician or family physician delivers a baby by slicing the bottom of a mother’s abdomen and cutting through the uterus. C-sections are an emergency response to fetal distress and other unforeseen crises that...
Lupus is an autoimmune disease that targets your immune system and affects many parts of your body. Its symptoms can vary from person to person and can mimic those of other conditions, leading to a high rate of misdiagnosis. A staggering 46.5% of people with lupus...
We rely on physicians to provide a standard of care that begins with the initial hospital visit and the resulting diagnosis. However, physicians are only human, and humans make mistakes, including misdiagnoses. Once the misdiagnosis results in no treatment, delayed...
Ever since cellphones became affordable and popular, distracted driving has been a major safety hazard in the United States. In response, Oregon and almost every other state have passed anti-distracted driving laws to try to force motorists to put down their phones...
When you learned you were pregnant, this was a moment of joy for you and your entire family. The addition of a new life is something to look forward to, and it is natural to have concerns about your health and the health of your child during the approximate nine or 10...
Many types of cancer are treatable, but you need a timely and accurate diagnosis by your doctor to get appropriate treatment. The earlier the diagnosis, the less harm cancer can do to your body and the better your chances of managing and overcoming it. Different...