Parents who filed a multiparty claim after their daughters’ genetic cancer test results were mistakenly mixed up will have their day in court, according to a report in the Detroit Free Press. In 1999, Michael and Susan Lonsway brought their…
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What Happens When You Let Your Wife Review Five of Your Papers?
The pantheon of husband-wife teams in science includes Marie and Pierre Curie, Gerty and Carl Cori, even Ugur Sahin and Özlem Türeci, the founders of BioNTech, which collaborated with Pfizer on a Covid-19 vaccine. To that list we hesitatingly add…
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Doctors motivated by both health, malpractice concerns when ordering additional tests
A UCLA-led study has found that dermatopathologists, who specialize in diagnosing skin diseases at the microscopic level, are motivated both by patient safety concerns and by malpractice fears—often simultaneously—when ordering multiple tests and obtaining second opinions, with a higher proportion…
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