Medical errors still harm too many people—but there are glimpses of real change
In late November 1999, a TV producer called me about an alarming report that 44,000 to 98,000 Americans were being killed each year by preventable […]
Read moreIn late November 1999, a TV producer called me about an alarming report that 44,000 to 98,000 Americans were being killed each year by preventable […]
Read moreIt is a feeling that many who receive a cancer diagnosis can identify with: heartbreak and fear, followed by hopes that chemotherapy will save the […]
Read moreSmallpox is one of the only diseases to have been eradicated by sustained human effort. But before it was eradicated in 1977, it claimed an […]
Read moreIn a paper published in today’s online issue of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, TauRx has reported unexpected results of a pharmacokinetic analysis of the […]
Read moreResearchers from the University of Michigan found significant pupillary changes in high-school football athletes after they had sustained a high-acceleration head impact. The changes were […]
Read more1.7 million. That’s how many people are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) each year worldwide. 1.7 million people who are condemned to lifelong […]
Read moreNew findings from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston show that patients qualifying for Medicare because of a disability have the highest rates […]
Read moreLike many providers nationwide, Integris – the largest non-profit health system in Oklahoma – realized that its billing processes were not attuned to the economic […]
Read moreSqueaky clean! Tori Roloff gave her newborn daughter, Lilah, her first bath on Monday, November 25. “She liked it so much she blew out her […]
Read moreHope for triple negative breast cancer sufferers: Scientists STOP the aggressive disease from spreading in animal tests Triple negative breast cancer doesn’t respond to targeted […]
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