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Men get migraines, too. As with women and migraines, the risk may involve more than head pain. Migraine headache is a complex condition with a cause that remains elusive to researchers. In both genders, migraines have numerous triggers. Diet, exercise, stress, genetics, hormones, and underlying physiology are all implicated when it comes to headaches and … Continued
Schochor, Staton, Goldberg, and Cardea, P.A., PA recently ranked in the top three in five categories of the annual Reader Rankings of The Daily Record. Established in 1888, The Daily Record is Maryland’s premier source for regional business, legal, and government news. Each year, the news outlet gives readers and business leaders the opportunity to … Continued
No headache is pleasant. While most headaches will pass in a few hours, some do not. How do you know when to get help with a pain in the head? More than 90 percent of the population experiences tension headaches at some point during their life. These types of headaches are not medical emergencies and … Continued
Most people suffer a headache at some point in their life, from the” brain freeze” of an ice cream headache, to the chronic head pain caused by a concussion. While head pain is the common factor of these conditions, these types of head pain are unrelated. Headaches are generally referred to as primary or secondary … Continued
Your child has a terrible stomach ache. You have a busy day and since you are near a retail medical care office, you drop in instead of going to your doctor or even the Emergency Department. Your child gets some antibiotics and seems to feel better. Everything seems fine until their appendix ruptures two days … Continued
Schochor, Staton, Goldberg, and Cardea, P.A., P.A achieved a settlement of $14.5 million for a boy who was irreversibly injured due to the negligence of a hospital and treating radiologist. This was the case: On January 12, 2016, the Minor Plaintiff was admitted to the Defendant Hospital for a sickle cell crisis. The Minor Plaintiff … Continued
A new device may speed the diagnosis of sepsis and save lives. According to research from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), sepsis affects over one million people per year in the US, and about a quarter of those patients will die. Sepsis is not a disease, but a reaction by the immune system to an infectious … Continued
The joy of a British couple over a new pregnancy turned to sorrow and then tragedy when a series of medical mistakes left the mom-to-be in devastated condition. In 2014, Magdalena Malec, a 31-year old mother of a two children, learned she was pregnant. She and her partner were thrilled. Just weeks later, bleeding heavily, … Continued
Can feeding the fire of an overcharged immune system save the lives of patients in septic shock? Sepsis is a condition where a violent attack, called a “cytokine storm,” is released by the immune system on an infection. Unfortunately, the immune attack often kills the patient, too. In recent years, the Centers for Disease Control … Continued
It is something no one wants to think about—but it happens more frequently than you think. When your surgeon sews you up, he or she may leave something besides a scar behind. Items left in the body are called “retained surgical items (RSIs),“ “retained surgical bodies (RSBs)” or “unintended retention of foreign objects (URFOs).” The … Continued
