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Doctors have begun using botox injections—normally used for easing wrinkles—to treat the symptoms of some patients with cerebral palsy. By injecting the treatment into muscles that are affected by cerebral palsy symptoms, doctors hope that they can give patients greater mobility and allow them to increase their control of muscles that are affected by the condition.
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A California jury has awarded an estimated $96 million to the family of a four-year-old child in its birth injury lawsuit against the hospital where he was born. The verdict Aidan Leung’s birth injury lawsuit is one of the largest ever recorded in California history for a medical malpractice case.
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An Erb’s palsy lawsuit has been filed in Illinois by the mother and father of a girl born with a brachial plexus injury. Christy and Dennis Hartmann contend that Dr. Diana Peterson, who performed the delivery, was negligent in that she failed to use proper delivery methods for their daughter, Chrisden. Thus the girl, who is now three years old, suffered a brachial plexus injury.
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A Virginia jury has awarded a mother and her child $1.8 million in a birth injury lawsuit against the doctor who delivered the baby. The award was the maximum allowable under state law.
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Eight-year-old Madelyn Instone suffered a permanently paralyzed right arm at birth. Her parents filed suit against the doctor who delivered her and won $1.1 million in a jury award in Wood County, Ohio. Madelyn’s mother and father sued the late Dr. Raymond Hoag, his obstetrics practice and his estate.
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