Two weeks after health plans like Wellpoint announced they would follow Medicare's lead in refusing to pay for eight preventable medical problems in hospitals, Medicare has upped the ante by proposing ...

It's a chilling reality – one often overlooked in annual mortality statistics: Preventable medical errors persist as the No. 3 killer in the U.S. – third only to heart disease and cancer – claiming ...

John Wiederspan is well aware of how things can go wrong in the high-pressure, high-stakes environment of an operating room. “During situations such as trauma, or a patient doing poorly, there’s a ...

Fox 32's Dawn Hasbrouck takes a look at how a Chicago university is helping future medical professionals prepare not to make ...

Each year, a staggering 400,000 people are estimated to have died due to medical errors. What's more, each day there's also 10,000 serious complications resulting from medical mistakes. Part of the ...

Randomized, controlled clinical trials are crucial for telling whether a new treatment is safe and effective. But often ...

A doctor explains 11 common mistakes people make when measuring blood pressure, revealing how small errors can lead to ...

WASHINGTON (ABC7) — When you want to know about your doctor, Maryland, D.C. and Virginia offer public websites to let you dig up dirt. But the 7 ON YOUR SIDE I-Team discovered those pages can hide a ...

Objective: To determine the prevalence of medical errors related to the discontinuity of care from an inpatient to an outpatient setting, and to determine if there is an association between these ...

Stopping Medical Mistakes, a law firm led by attorney Chris Kuhlman, has launched a dedicated initiative aimed at supporting families in Oregon affected by alleged medical malpractice. The new program ...