U.K. newspaper Daily Mail reports that Britain’s Medical Research Council is funding a study into the use of the gas xenon to reduce incidence of brain damage in newborns.
According to the article, more than 1,000 otherwise healthy infants are born deprived of oxygen every year. Common reasons include infection, the umbilical cord getting wrapped around the baby’s neck and the placenta – which provides the ...
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An article in the Kenyan newspaper Daily Nation addresses a reader’s question about the causes and nature of cerebral palsy.
According to the article, the term “cerebral palsy” is a term used to describe a group of disorders that involve brain and nervous system functions, such as movement, learning, hearing, seeing, and thinking. Those disorders usually show up before the child afflicted with them had reached the age of three.
The condition ...
continue reading...CBS News out of Detroit reports on an $8 million settlement in the case of a woman who alleges she was denied proper care when she gave birth in jail, and her daughter suffered brain damage as a result.
According to the report, Chantrienes Barker went into labor while she was jailed in Wayne County, Mich., in1998. Although she was taken to a hospital, she was ...
continue reading...A Baltimore jury awarded a couple $55 million damages, over their claims that Johns Hopkins Hospital’s negligence resulted in their son being born with severe mental and physical disabilities.
A story in the Baltimore Sun says it was one of the largest malpractice judgments in Maryland history.
The mother, Rebecca Fielding, had wanted to deliver her baby at home with the assistance of a midwife, the story ...
continue reading...An article from Pacific News Center concerns a lawsuit that parents of a baby born with severe brain damage filed in District Court of Guam. The parents claim that negligence on the part of the doctor overseeing the birth cause their baby’s disabilities.
The baby’s mother, Shamaralynn Terlaje, alleges in the lawsuit that she experienced prolonged bradycardia – or slowing of the heart rate – three times during her labor.
The lawsuit claims that condition indicated her ...
continue reading...A story in the Baltimore Sun concerns a family awarded $21 million over claims that negligent care by Baltimore’s Harbor Hospital caused their child to be born with cerebral palsy.
Jaylan Norfleet, who was 9 years old as of July, has a fully functioning mind but severe disabilities including very limited use of his legs and hands. An attorney representing the family described him as “literally trapped inside his body.”
The family ...
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