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Jury Agrees Girl’s Cerebral Palsy Caused By Doctor Negligence
According to the Law Firm Newswire, an Atlanta jury recently agreed with a family that their daughter’s cerebral palsy was a direct result of negligence on part of the doctor and awarded them a multi-million dollar injury award. The birth injury lawyer representing the family called it a disturbing case with clear signs that could have avoided the results, if the medical professionals had acted promptly on symptoms of a baby in distress. At trial, the jury heard the story of how an expectant mother-to-be went for her regular checkups and the results of her non-stress test showed herb baby had a low heart rate. The doctor suggested that labor be induced and the parents agreed to go ahead with an emergency c-section. However, when the doctor induced labor, she decided against the c-section, causing the baby to not get enough oxygen needed to her brain. Cerebral palsy is caused…
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European Study Shows Birth Defects Risks Increase With Depakote
According to Seedol, an European study conducted at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands has shown that Depakote increases the risks of several types of birth injuries such as spina bifida, heart defects and craniosynostosis by up to twelve times. The European researchers concluded that women who used Abbott Laboratories anti-seizure drug during their first trimester may have unknowingly increased the risk of birth defects in their infants. Depakote’s birth defects have caused the U.S. Food & Drug Administration to issue a Depakote black box warning in 2006 and have lead to numerous birth injury lawsuits. Birth injury lawyers have argued that Abbott Laboratories failed to warn mothers about the increased risk of Depakote-related brain injury and may be liable for economic damages, non-economic damages and possibly punitive damages in cases where an infant has suffered permanent birth defects. The European study examined nearly 100,000 pregnancies and found that…
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Brain Injury In Infants May Increase Risk of Psychiatric Disorders
According to Health Imaging, an infant born prematurely with a brain injury viewable on a neonatal ultrasound may be at higher risk for developing various psychiatric disorders, depression and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. A study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry found that preterm infants face higher risks of brain injury due to increased vascular and cellular vulnerabilities of the laminar and fetal brain. The researchers studied associations between perinatal brain injury and motor and cognitive deficits. The study followed 1.105 preterm participants who underwent multiple neonatal ultrasounds. The low-birth-weight participants were also followed as part of the Neonatal Brain Hemorrhage Study, with follow-up lasting 16 years and including 458 eligible participants who were evaluated according to the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for children-IV. The DISC-IVP found that many participants showed a threshold of greater than 3 percent within oppositional defiant disorder, specific phobias, ADHD and social phobias. Relative to…
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