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Pharmacist Malpractice Connected to Meningitis Outbreak The New England Compounding Center, a specialty pharmacy in Massachusetts, and its former supervisory pharmacist, Glenn Adam Chin, have been linked to the 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak that killed 64 people. About 750 people from 20 states developed meningitis or other infections because of tainted injections from the…

New Texas Sunset Advisory Commission Recommendation Would De-Regulate X-Ray Technicians The Texas Sunset Advisory Commission (TSAC) was established in 1977 to evaluate state agencies and make changes their missions or operations if necessary. TSAC has abolished seventy-nine agencies since 1977, saving Texas an estimated $945.6 million. Despite previous success, one of the newest recommendations…

Dallas/Fort Worth Area Veterans Complain of Long Waits, Insufficient Help at Dallas VA You may have seen any one of a stream of news stories recently that reveal alleged “waiting lists” at Veterans Administration Hospitals across the country. Veterans in Dallas/Fort Worth and the Metroplex are included in the thousands of veterans who have…

Medical Malpractice in Texas: Requirements for Experts and Expert Reports An injured person who files a medical malpractice or other healthcare liability claim in a Texas court is required to serve an expert report and the expert’s curriculum vital on each defendant no later than the 120th day after the date each defendant’s original…

Time Limits for a Texas Medical Malpractice Case A medical malpractice lawsuit is a serious case in which a patient alleges that a doctor made a mistake while treating the patient and harmed the patient by making that mistake. Texas has several laws that are specifically directed at medical malpractice claims filed in the…

Texas Cap on Medical Malpractice Case Damages In 2003, Texas passed legislation limiting the amount of compensation a plaintiff can receive in a medical malpractice case. This law is found at Chapter 74 of the Texas Civil Practice Remedies Code. The law caps how much a patient may receive in noneconomic damages from each…

Is Testosterone Therapy Really Necessary? You may have noticed a lot of commercials aimed at men suggesting that they may candidates for testosterone replacement therapy. Bloomberg News reports that the market for testosterone has passed the $1 billion mark—and may pose a host of risks to men who use it, including heart attacks and…

CBS 11 Reports: Pharmacy Mistakes-What You Can Do to Save your Life (Part 2 of 2) In a February 2014 report, Ginger Allen of CBS 11 News in Dallas says that she heard got hundreds of reports about pharmacy errors in the Dallas area after introducing the issue in January. One was the story…

CBS 11 Reports: Mistakes with your Medicine (Part 1 of 2) In a January 2014 report, Ginger Allen of CBS 11 News in Dallas alerts the public to the fact that the Texas Board of Pharmacy receives over 200 complaints involving dispensing errors on the part of pharmacists each year. Some examples of these…