Attorneys for his family say Jeffrey Hightower had been complaining of rectal bleeding and pain, and requesting medical attention both verbally and in writing, for two months before his death.

An 80-year-old man presented with progressive lower left-quadrant abdominal pain. Imaging studies identified a mass adjacent to the sigmoid colon, with features suggestive of an abscess, although no ...

A woman whose bowel was perforated during spinal surgery received payment of a $1.1 million settlement in her Essex County medical malpractice suit, Franco… A woman whose bowel was perforated during ...

Background. Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi (Salmonella Typhi) causes an estimated 22 million typhoid fever cases and 216 000 deaths annually worldwide. In Africa, the lack of laboratory diagnostic ...