Nearly 3 percent of patients in the nation's hospitals risk experiencing hospital errors, a new study finds. And the numbers could be on the rise. The report further suggests that those patients who experience an error in treatment or care at a hospital have a...
Many Oklahoma nursing homes are under the operation of shell companies without assets or insurance, said the executive director of the Oklahoma Center for Consumer & Patient Safety in a news conference today. With the growing number of cases of nursing home abuse and...
A study that looked at medication use and the cognitive test scores of 870 elderly individuals at the Rush University Medical Center found that commonly used incontinence drugs may lead to memory problems in some older people. According to the Associated Press Story, those...
8-28-2007 More and more possibly unnecessary drugs are prescribed, but ironically much needed medications, such as Herceptin for breast cancer, have been denied to patients because of costs. Health experts say the rise in prescription numbers is due in part to medical advances, and that...
Purdue Pharma LP, a private US drug firm, agreed to over 600 million dollars after pleading guilty Thursday to minimizing the risks of its OxyContin pain tablets, government prosecutors said. The Justice Department said Purdue and some of its top executives pleaded guilty to "misbranding"...
An autopsy will be performed on a newborn to determine whether an overdose of heparin may have played a part in its death. So far, two members of the staff at Christus Spohn Hospital South have taken leave. It's unclear whether heparin played a...
From 2004 through 2006, 270,491 deaths occurred among U.S. Medicare patients who experienced one or more patient safety incidents while under medical care. The annual Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study found that 238,337 of those deaths were potentially preventable. The overall number of...
While awareness of drug-related medical mistakes in children grew as a result of the major story involving actor Dennis Quaid - whose newborn twins were administered potentially lethal doses of heparin - a new study presents frightening results regarding the number of such mistakes....
In a disturbing story out of El Paso, at least 15 military service members or their families were allegedly infected with hepatitis by an ex- William Beaumont Army Medical Center nurse who is suspected of having stolen their painkillers during surgery back in 2004. While...
According to the National Institutes of Health, about 5 million Americans receive blood transfusions each year. In a study reported today in the New England Journal of Medicine, those who received blood older than two weeks were 30 percent more likely to die than...
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