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Gerry Oginski's New York Legal Blog

This blog is designed to educate and inform you about recent news and how it may impact your legal case in New York. I have provided commentary and opinion and welcome your comments to keep the conversation going.

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4/28/2016
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Can Mammograms Be Misconstrued & Misinterpreted | NY Lawyer

Brest cancer is one of the most common ailments in American women today. New York Medical Malpractice Attorney shares information about the subject.

Category: Misdiagnosis and Failure to Diagnose

Labels: breast cancer cancer dense breasts mammogram mammogram results
4/19/2016
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Should Women be Getting Mammograms Earlier | NY Cancer Law

Research shows that the pros of early mammograms outweigh the cons. New York Medical Malpractice Attorney shares the data in this resourceful article.

Category: Misdiagnosis and Failure to Diagnose

Labels: breast cancer failure to diagnose heart disease mammogram mastectomies mastectomy recurrence rate
4/13/2016
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Link Between Cancer and Autism | NY Med Mal Lawyer

Research shows patients diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder have higher burden of mutations in oncogenesis shared by New York Medical Malpractice Attorney

Category: Misdiagnosis and Failure to Diagnose

Labels: autism cancer failure to diagnose
4/13/2016
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Cartilage Protein Found in Breast Cancer | NY Med Mal Lawyer

Research shows that the protein COMP can be found in tumors in patients with a poor prognosis as shared by New York Medical Malpractice Attorney Gerry Oginski

Category: Misdiagnosis and Failure to Diagnose

Labels: breast cancer failure to diagnose heart disease mammogram mastectomies mastectomy recurrence rate
4/13/2016
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Can Vitamin D Mend a Broken Heart | NY Injury Lawyer

Researchers were concerned with a measure known as ejection fraction. New York Medical Malpractice Attorney Gerry Oginski shares this BBC news report.

Category: Misdiagnosis and Failure to Diagnose

Labels: atherosclerosis cardiac heart heart attack heart disease myocardial infarction vitamin d
4/11/2016
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Woman suffers vision loss after surgery | NY Med Mal Lawyer

She had recently underwent weight-loss surgery and started to experience vitamin deficiency soon after. New York Medical Malpractice Attorney shares article

Category: Medical Malpractice

Labels: bariatric blind blindness surgery vision vitamin A weight loss
4/11/2016
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Is Diabetes Now the most Common Disease | NY Med Mal Lawyer

Health officials are saying that the world's waistlines have ballooned with 1 in 3 people now overweight as shared by New York Medical Malpractice Attorney

Category: Medical Malpractice

Labels: blood sugar brain diabetes diabetic insulin dependent ketoacidosis type 1
4/10/2016
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Cancer Research Conducted Using Social Media | NY Injury Law

Even patients with the same diagnosis have different genetic makeups as shared by New York Medical Malpractice Attorney Gerry Oginski

Category: Misdiagnosis and Failure to Diagnose

Labels: brain cancer breast cancer cancer cervical cancer failure to diagnose Lung cancer medical malpractice ovarian prostate uterine
4/10/2016
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Vitamin D Correlates with Cancer Risk | NY Med Mal Lawyer

Gerry Oginski a New York Medical Malpractice Attorney shares an interesting article on the research being conducted with clinical trials in patients.

Category: Misdiagnosis and Failure to Diagnose

Labels: brain cancer breast cancer cancer cervical cancer failure to diagnose Lung cancer medical malpractice ovarian prostate uterine
4/10/2016
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Liquid Biopsy Makes Picking Drugs Easier | NY Med Mal Lawyer

Lung cancer patient had a mutation that makes the disease treatable with certain pills as shared by New York Medical Malpractice Attorney Gerry Oginski

Category: Misdiagnosis and Failure to Diagnose

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4/10/2016
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Cancer literally steals blood vessels | NY Med Mal Lawyer

Study shows that tumors can become resistant to drugs over time as shared by New York Medical Malpractice Attorney Gerry Oginski.

Category: Misdiagnosis and Failure to Diagnose

Labels: brain cancer breast cancer cancer cervical cancer failure to diagnose Lung cancer medical malpractice ovarian prostate uterine
4/10/2016
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Chinese Plant Cure for Cancer | NY City Med Mal Lawyer

Research has revealed how traditional medicine from China produces compounds which may help to treat diseases as shared by New York Medical Malpractice Attorney

Category: Misdiagnosis and Failure to Diagnose

Labels: brain cancer breast cancer cancer cervical cancer failure to diagnose Lung cancer medical malpractice ovarian prostate uterine
4/10/2016
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Prostate Cancer Treatments May Promote Relapse | NY Med Law

International research found that medical androgen deprivation therapies may suppress patients immune responses, New York Medical Malpractice Lawyer reveals.

Category: Misdiagnosis and Failure to Diagnose

Labels: brain cancer breast cancer cancer cervical cancer failure to diagnose Lung cancer medical malpractice ovarian prostate uterine
4/5/2016
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Heart Failure - Drugs or Surgery | NY Med Mal Lawyer

Study reveals patients with clogged arteries have a chance of surviving 10 years with bypass surgery plus medicine by New York Medical Malpractice Attorney

Category: Misdiagnosis and Failure to Diagnose

Labels: bypass bypass surgery cabg cardiac medication heart disease heart failure
4/5/2016
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New Way to Tackle Childrens Brain Tumors | NY Med Mal Lawyer

Researchers have discovered why a curable type of cancer is so responsive to chemotherapy as shared by New York Medical Malpractice Attorney

Category: Misdiagnosis and Failure to Diagnose

Labels: blastoma brain cancer brain tumor cancer medulla blastoma tumor
4/5/2016
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Does Cancer Prefer Fat or Sugar | NY Med Mal Lawyer

Gerry Oginski a New York Medical Malpractice Attorney shares how cells are defined by their ability for uncontrolled growth through environment.

Category: Misdiagnosis and Failure to Diagnose

Labels: brain cancer breast cancer cancer cervical cancer failure to diagnose Lung cancer medical malpractice ovarian prostate uterine
3/31/2016
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Your Doctor's Past History | NY Med Mal Law Firm

This OBGYN who was placed on probation for 40 cases of negligence and incompetence read the CBS report as shared by New York Medical Malpractice Attorney

Category: Medical Malpractice

Labels: lawsuit medical malpractice national practitioner database
3/31/2016
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Cancer fighting nanoparticles deliver results | NY Lawyer

Researchers have developed tiny biochemical bundles to carry chemotherapy drugs into tumors shared by New York Medical Malpractice Attorney Gerald Oginski

Category: Misdiagnosis and Failure to Diagnose

Labels: brain cancer breast cancer cancer cervical cancer failure to diagnose Lung cancer medical malpractice ovarian prostate uterine
3/28/2016
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Is Cannabis the Cure for Cancer | NY Med Mal Lawyer

Numerous scientific studies on cannabinoid receptors and endocannabinoids may help tumors as shared by New York Medical Malpractice Attorney

Category: Misdiagnosis and Failure to Diagnose

Labels: cancer cancer research cannabis pot
3/27/2016
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Skin Patch Could Treat Melanoma | NY Med Mal Lawyer

Researchers have developed a treatment that delivers cancer immunotherapy drugs to the site of the melanoma as shared by New York Medical Malpractice Attorney

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3/27/2016
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Mammograms Could Detect More Than Breast Cancer | NY Lawyer

Radiologists look for signs of calcium deposits that have built up in the arteries that supply blood as shared by New York Medical Malpractice Attorney

Category: Misdiagnosis and Failure to Diagnose

Labels: breast cancer failure to diagnose heart disease mammogram mastectomies mastectomy recurrence rate
3/25/2016
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People are getting heart disease at younger age | NY Lawyer

When the coronary artery is completely blocked and a large part of the heart muscle is unable to get blood as shared by New York Medical Malpractice Attorney

Category: Misdiagnosis and Failure to Diagnose

Labels: cardiovascular disease ekg failure to diagnose heart attack misdiagnosis misread myocardial infarction
3/24/2016
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Scanning May Help Identify Cancers | NY Injury Lawyer

Utilizing a scanner rather than a scalpel could spare hundreds of thousands of patients from dangerous surgeries shared by New York Medical Malpractice Attorney

Category: Misdiagnosis and Failure to Diagnose

Labels: brain cancer breast cancer cancer cervical cancer failure to diagnose Lung cancer medical malpractice ovarian prostate uterine
3/23/2016
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Prescription Pain Killers | NY Trial Lawyer

The FDA announced that they plan to add a boxed warning to all immediate-release opioids as shared by New York Medical Malpractice Attorney Gerald Oginski

Category: Medical Malpractice

Labels: opioid oxycodone oxycontin painkiller percoset vicodin
3/22/2016
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Double Mastectomies In Breast Cancer | NY Med Mal Lawyer

Studies show that patients who don’t have a genetic mutation do not benefit from removing the healthy breast as shared by New York Medical Malpractice Attorney

Category: Misdiagnosis and Failure to Diagnose

Labels: breast cancer failure to diagnose mastectomies mastectomy recurrence rate
Gerry practices law exclusively in the State of New York. Within New York he practices primarily in the following counties: New York, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, Staten Island, Nassau and Suffolk. Technically, Brooklyn is known as "Kings County," and Manhattan and New York City are known as "New York County." Staten Island is known as "Richmond County." These counties make up the New York metropolitan area.