Posts by Crandall & Pera Law, LLC

Crandall & Pera Law Attorney Marc Pera recently won a significant victory for his client, Victoria Stamper and her husband Steve, in a medical malpractice case against Michael Draznik, M.D. Dr. Draznik performed two surgeries on Victoria to remove her uterus, fallopian tubes and ovaries. A portion of her fallopian tube was inadvertently left in…

As the rate of painkiller abuse continues to steadily rise nationwide, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has placed stricter controls on prescription drugs containing hydrocodone. Drugs such as Vicodin, Lortab and their generic equivalents will now be in the same regulatory class as painkillers such as Oxycontin, Percocet and codeine. Patients will only have access…

Two strategies proven to be effective in preventing premature infant deaths are largely underused globally, contributing to the deaths of nearly 1 million children each year, according to a recent study published in The Lancet. Injections of coricosteroids help fetal lungs to mature before delivery, reducing respiratory distress, mortality and infections in the 48 hours…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned consumers to beware of dietary supplements that falsely claim to prevent or cure concussions or other traumatic brain injuries, according to a recent CBS News article. Supplements with labels that make these claims are not backed up by scientific evidence, according to the FDA, who has taken…

Picking a nursing home for a loved one should not be trial and error, especially with nearly half of these facilities’ residents suffering from dementia, according to a recent article in The New York Times. The decision to place a loved one in a nursing home is often a difficult but necessary one as falls, fires,…

Parents may be making frequent dosing errors with their children’s prescriptions and over the counter medications when estimating the amounts, according to a recent study.  More than 40 percent of the parents interviewed for the study did not measure the medication correctly; one out of six of those parents used spoons out of their kitchen…

The federal government’s new tobacco regulations could be vulnerable to legal challenges from the tobacco industry due to an included “happiness quotient,” according to a recent article in The New York Times. The cost-benefit calculation of the new regulations assume that the benefits from reducing smoking – fewer early deaths and diseases of the lungs and…

A recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine concluded there is another gene that can greatly raise the risk for breast cancer.  The PALB2 gene is probably the most dangerous in terms of breast cancer after the BRCA genes, according to the study’s authors, with mutations in the gene making breast cancer up…

Doubts remain about whether the benefit of prostate cancer screening is large enough to offset the harms caused by unnecessary biopsies and treatments that can render men incontinent and impotent, according to a recent article in The New York Times. A recent study published in The Lancet found that routine screening would lower the lifetime cancer…

Mrs. Stamper had her bowel perforated by Dr. Draznik during open abdominal surgery to remove scar tissue and a portion of her fallopian tube that was inadvertently left in during a previous surgery performed by Dr. Draznik. By the time the perforation was diagnosed after a four day delay, Mrs. Stamper was septic and had…