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Consumer Concerns and Advice Recent UpdatesMay 05, 2008 April 30, 2008 April 22, 2008 April 14, 2008 April 04, 2008 Archives
May, 2008 Web ResourcesChalat Hatten Law Offices
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When you think of the legal issues arising from health care, the obvious association is medical malpractice by a doctor. Yet, as our modern health care system has become increasingly complex so to has the range of malpractice occurrences. And malpractice is not the only legal concern - your legal rights are often defined by medical insurance coverage and subrogation, HIPPA requirements, state and federal benefits, living wills and quality of life issues. For those with a legal question arising from medical care, the postings under this topic provide some answers.
FDA Again Comes to Our Rescue Officials from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration say they have dramatically boosted inspections of companies that harvest cadaver body parts for transplant, acknowledging weaknesses in government oversight of the multibillion-dollar human tissue industry that last year was rocked by scandal. The FDA claims the inspections turned up no serious problems. But an internal task force report urges the agency to establish a method for tracking body parts from cadaver to transplant patient as well as other problems, but operators of accredited tissue banks and others familiar with the industry say the report doesn't go far enough to clean up the problem. |
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