Over the course of an eight-hour deposition, Florida surgeon Thomas Shaknovsky faced the same question again and again: Why did he remove a man’s liver instead of his spleen? Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The disastrous August 2024 surgical error and death of Shaknovsky’s patient, … Read more
FDA expanding access to pancreatic cancer drug to some patients – CBS News Watch CBS News The FDA this week announced it would be expanding access to a promising pancreatic cancer drug that nearly doubled survival time for patients with advanced pancreatic cancer in a large clinical trial. Source link
The Food and Drug Administration said it will allow some pancreatic cancer patients to receive access to a promising drug, even before it is officially approved for use. The medication, daraxonrasib, is a pill taken three times a day. The drug blocks a signal that causes cancer cells to grow non-stop. Drugmaker Revolution Medicine reported … Read more
Complaints about hospital food are certainly not new, and Jell-O and fruit juice are often the butt of related jokes. But the Trump administration has recently upped the ante. It is urging the public to report hospitals and nursing homes that serve sugary drinks, nutrition shakes or meals that it says don’t meet dietary guidelines … Read more
Hospital CEOs came under fire at a House hearing Tuesday, with Republicans accusing them of overcharging patients and exploiting the system. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Executives from HCA Healthcare, CommonSpirit Health, New York-Presbyterian and ECU Health testified before the House Ways and Means Committee, … Read more
The idea is straightforward: Take a blood test now, even without symptoms, and learn if you could some day develop Alzheimer’s disease. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Whether you should get this test is a more complicated matter. Most Alzheimer’s blood tests work by measuring … Read more
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A Florida doctor is facing charges of second-degree manslaughter following a fatal surgery where he allegedly removed a patient’s liver instead of the spleen. Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky, 44, was arrested Monday after a two-year investigation into the August 2024 death of a 70-year-old Alabama man conducted by local and state law enforcement in collaboration with … Read more
A Florida doctor has been indicted in connection with the death of a 70-year-old man after allegedly removing the wrong organ during surgery. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky, 44, was indicted by a grand jury with second-degree manslaughter in the August 2024 … Read more
WASHINGTON — Three former employees of a privately operated psychiatric hospital in the nation’s capital have been charged with criminal negligence in the death of a patient, the city’s top federal prosecutor said Wednesday. The three former employees of the Psychiatric Institute of Washington failed to provide adequate medical care to the patient before he … Read more