Doctors can now better assess a woman’s potential for a difficult childbirth through the use of a newly developed software and magnetic resonance imaging.
Because a woman’s birth canal is curved and only a little wider than a fetus’s head, a baby must proceed through the canal in a specific sequence of moves. A failure during [...]
A new study reviewing more than 50,000 narcotic-containing precriptions for children found that about 4 percent of them received an overdose amount.
Of more concern was the finding that the youngest children had the greatest chance of receiving an overdose, according to lead researcher Dr. William T. Basco Jr., associate professor and director of the Division [...]
Despite recent advances using checklists and other safety protocols, doctors and hospitals are still committing too many preventable errors according to a recent study. The study found medical mistakes ranging from undergoing the wrong operation at the wrong operating table to undergoing surgery on the wrong side of your body.
A recent Archives of Surgery report [...]
If a baby is not babbling by at least 12 months, that child most likely is encountering problems preventing the normal development of speech. Perhaps not enough language is being used in the presence of the child. Maybe something is preventing the baby from hearing the words that are spoken to her or from processing [...]
If your child is receiving Botox treatments for his or her cerebral palsy and has experienced poor health recently, the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) new warning says your child’s decline in health may be caused by the very Botox treatments that are meant to help.
New studies show that cerebral palsy Botox treatments have serious [...]
Welcome to my blog. My name is Art Zimmet. I am a lawyer in Daytona Beach, FL at the law firm of Zimmet & Quarles. A little about my background so you know where I’m coming from in my blog comments: I graduated with honors from Florida State College of Law in 2008. I also [...]
