Posts by Crandall & Pera Law, LLC

The Kentucky Court of Appeals has unfortunately given guardians of nursing home residents the power to bind the resident to arbitration and deprive them of their constitutional right to a jury trial. An overview of the related case, LP Pikeville LLC, v. Wright, is as follows: The Defendant Ginger Wright was appointed legal guardian for…

Primary care physicians and specialists worried about changes in the health care market are streaming into salaried jobs with hospitals, almost certainly causing more expensive heathcare in the short run, according to The New York Times. While health economists agree the U.S. should move away from the traditional system of fee-for-service payments, where private positions are…

Eight million people signed up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act’s six-month enrollment period, but many Americans remain voluntarily uninsured, according to a recent article in The New York Times. Cost is a major factor for people who have decided to stay uninsured despite the law’s requirement that most Americans get coverage this…

America’s prescription drug epidemic reaches deep into the medical community, producing enormous risks not only for the individuals, but the patients who trust in their care, according to a recent USA Today article. More than 100,000 doctors, nurses, and other health professionals nationwide currently struggle with abuse or addiction, mostly involving narcotics such as oxycodone and…

Stroke survivors often resume driving without being formally evaluated, even after their ability to speak, think, see and control the body has been affected, according to new research presented at the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference. Fewer than 6 percent of stroke survivors said they received a formal driving evaluation in the new survey, yet more than…

General Motors has recalled about 4.8 million vehicles in the U.S. during the first three months of the year, already about six times the number of vehicles it recalled in all of 2013.  This year’s recalls involve many of G.M.’s most popular and best-known models due to a loose fitting for the transmission’s oil cooler line…

A once promising treatment for severe high blood pressure has proven ineffective in a recent study published in The New England Journal of Medicine.  In the United States, 67 million people have high blood pressure. The treatment, called renal denervation, involves threading a tube through blood vessels into the renal arteries and zapping them with radio-frequency…

Women may be at a higher risk for blood clots for at least 12 weeks after they give birth, doubling the amount of time that was previously thought, according to CBS News. Blood clots can cause life-threatening conditions, including strokes and heart attacks, due to blocking blood flow to the brain and heart. The blood…

The U.S. and 26 other countries have begun a new effort to prevent and fight outbreaks of dangerous infectious diseases before they spread around the globe, according to NBC News.  The Global Health Security Agenda will bolster local disease monitoring, develop tests for different pathogens and help regions create and strengthen systems to report and…

Prescription drug abuse is not only a continuing plague nationwide, but could also be a gateway for increased heroin use, according to a recent NBC News article. There has been a roughly 20 percent increase in overdose deaths involving prescription painkillers since 2006, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “The pathway appears to…