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 ...

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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), ...

Medical records of hundreds of patients at a Sydney hospital's cancer genetics service have been reviewed following irregularities related to care by a single specialist. According to St Vincent's ...

WASHINGTON — A short but fiery speech made on the floor of the House of Representatives has raised the hopes of patient safety advocates across the nation. Rep. Bruce Braley, a second-term Democrat ...

Tye is an author based on Cape Cod, Mass., and runs a health journalism fellowship based at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The first things I noticed when I woke up after my recent ...

Doctors and researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine, the UMD Institute for Health Computing and the VA Maryland Healthcare System are concerned that large language models ...

Kiss co-founder and guitarist Ace Frehley, 74, died from head injuries suffered during a recent fall in his recording studio.

Senators have launched an inquiry into companies paid billions in taxpayer dollars to build eligibility systems for Medicaid, ...