Inova Fair Oaks Hospital has applied to the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) for the prestigious designation of Magnet. The Magnet designation recognizes excellence in nursing services.Patients, family members, staff and interested parties may provide comments and are encouraged to do so. As many clients of Herdon Reston area injury and disability law firm ABRAMS…
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Shown here are the x-ray machinery from one of our state-of-the-art local hospitals. These machines can show fractures and de-mineralized bone. The radiographic films can show such things as loss of disc height and the lordotic curve in cases involving injury to the back, neck and spine. However, they cannot “spot” all traumatic injuries from…
Continue readingNew York state officials filed a lawsuit against CVS Caremark Corp. over the sale of expired products at its stores. An investigation last year revealed that CVS, the nation’s second-largest drug store chain, had sold expired products in 60 percent of its New York stores. Bloomberg also reported that the state announced that Rite Aid…
Continue readingThe family of a California woman who died following neck surgery filed a lawsuit Tuesday against medical device maker Medtronic Inc. According to the lawsuit, the woman’s death was caused by use of the Infuse spinal graft in her neck and a Medtronic representative encouraged the surgeon to use the implant for off-label uses prior…
Continue readingAn ABRAMS LANDAU, Ltd., client was a guest at one of the hotels in the Colonial Williamsburg area. He went into bathroom in his hotel room and turned on the heatlamp. This was the original unit that was installed in the hotel in 1983. He sat down on the toilet. The hotel heat lamp heated…
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