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It’s a cliché to say that American health care is broken. Ilana Yurkiewicz, M.D., a Stanford University oncologist and internal…
For decades, same-day procedures such as joint replacements and colonoscopies have outnumbered inpatient surgeries, yet only recently have consumers had…
Many studies in the U.S. have looked at gender, race and ethnic disparities in patient safety, a leading cause of…
Health care providers must do more to address the problem of diagnostic errors, according to leading researchers in the field…
A new Texas law reforming the state’s medical board is a dramatic case of journalists holding health care licensing bodies…
Reuters reporter Michael Berens explains how he researched his news story, “How doctors buy their way out of trouble.”
What journalists should know about Patients for Patient Safety US, a patient advocacy group founded in 2021.
Medication errors hurt more hospitalized patients than any other mishap, including botched surgeries and health care-acquired infections. In long-term care,…
A new study shows third-party tracking occurs on nearly all hospital websites, buttressing recent news coverage about consumers’ loss of…
Just as gag orders conceal the activities of sexual predators, they are routinely used to bury instances of poor patient…