Medical Negligence In The News

SUBIC BAY FREEPORT, Philippines -- A worker died at the construction site of the shipyard of Korean-owned Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction Philippines Inc. on Redondo Peninsula at the Subic Bay Freeport in Zambales on Wednesday.

Six cancer sufferers who had their sperm frozen in case treatment made them infertile are appealing a court ruling that a hospital that destroyed the samples is not liable for damages.

DOCTORS battling to save a baby's life may have accidentally dislodged a breathing tube that was keeping him alive. But they have been cleared of negligence by a Health Ministry inquiry, which was launched after the infant's parents accused hospital staff of causing his death.

The series of accidents on national roads continues. In Constanta, yesterday morning, a driver hit two pedestrians walking after which he ran from the side of the accident, abandoning his victims in the street.

It was supposed to be a mother-son day for Georgette Alexander and her son, Timothy. Instead, she attended the funeral of her only child Wednesday.

Confidential patient information has been lost in scores of cases, according to a catalogue of NHS data losses released last night.

BUTTE - The mother of a Butte 3-year-old who died in 2006 has filed a lawsuit attributing the death to negligence by a Head Start bus driver and bus assistant.

Vienna - Austrian skier Matthias Lanzinger plans to take the sport's ruling body FIS, Norwegian organizers and an Oslo clinic to court as he seeks compensation over a crash at a World Cup race in Kvitfjell in which he lost his lower leg. The Austrian...

Carol Slade has been named director of women's and children's services at Trident Medical Center. Previously she was manager for the pediatric and Level II nursery units at Trident. She has an associate's degree in nursing from Craven Community College.

A DEATH trial judge has called for an inquiry after a 47-year-old man with a serious head injury was left abandoned outside the Royal Oldham Hospital because staff thought he was drunk.