True or false? A trip to the doctor’s is guaranteed to make you feel better. The answer is false, unfortunately, as all-too-common issues like medical errors can send patients home feeling worse than ...

If medical error were considered a disease, a new study has found, it would be the third leading cause of death in the United States, behind only heart disease and ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. Medical errors are gaining recognition as a serious ...

Doctors’ sloppy handwriting kills more than 7,000 people annually. It’s a shocking statistic, and, according to a July 2006 report from the National Academies of Science’s Institute of Medicine (IOM), ...

There's an estimated $195 billion of medical debt in America. But just because a medical bill comes in the mail doesn't mean you have to pay that exact price.

Between mysterious abbreviations, chemical names, and hurried handwriting, understanding prescriptions can feel impossible.

Richard Simmons' cause of death was officially determined to be an accident in a new report from the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office. The beloved fitness icon (real name Milton Simmons) ...

IPOH: Diabetic retinopathy, an eye complication caused by diabetes, has emerged as a major cause of blindness in Malaysia.