You’ve been caring for an elderly mother for the last few years, and you’ve been happy to do so. After all, you think to yourself, she took care of you until you were able to go out on your own; taking care of her now…
As a parent, you have no doubt been terrified by news stories involving children and prescription medication mistakes. These tales are often in the headlines and usually involve a pharmacist dispensing the wrong medication or calculating an improper dosage—but there are other ways children can…
You receive the phone call from your mother: Your favorite uncle just died while undergoing a common surgical procedure, and the surgeons are not sure why he died. “They just don’t know,” your mother says. “Dr. Markus said it may have been malignant hyperthermia.” What?…
You may have read about cerebral palsy while you were pregnant, but you never thought it could happen to your baby. After all, it’s caused by prolonged labor or delivery problems, and you didn’t suffer either one. So how did your baby come to suffer…
You woke up in the emergency room after an accident—scared, hurting, but lucky to be alive. You were told that you suffered a mild traumatic brain injury, which sounds worse than it really is. When you went home a few hours later with nothing more…
Cerebral palsy (CP) tends to affect one side of the body more than the other. With one strong and one weak foot and leg, children may have difficulty walking because of their condition. Now, as described in The Puyallup Herald, a device that sends electrical…