News results: "medical errors"

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Health

Google Health Expands Partnership with CVS Caremark

Google Health Expands Partnership with CVS Caremark

Rhode Island Company CVS Caremark Corp. said it has expanded its partnership with Google Health by...
» read full story April 07th, 2009 - 14:51
Obama’s Budget Outline

Obama’s Budget Outline

President Obama promised more money for conservation and renewable energy in his budget outline...
» read full story February 26th, 2009 - 23:49
Stimulus Bill, Health Care Reform, Crucial Issues on Obama’s Agenda

Stimulus Bill, Health Care Reform, Crucial Issues on Obama’s Agenda

Health care reform and the controversial stimulus bill continue to be crucial issues on...
» read full story February 16th, 2009 - 16:03
Economic Stimulus Bill Raises Concern over Rationed Health Care

Economic Stimulus Bill Raises Concern over Rationed Health Care

Opponents to the new economic stimulus bill are concerned that the plan could result in the...
» read full story February 11th, 2009 - 17:28
Surgeon’s Checklist May Reduce Surgical Errors

Surgeon’s Checklist May Reduce Surgical Errors

A new study shows that surgeons who used a verbal checklist before, during and after the...
» read full story January 15th, 2009 - 12:20
Medical Residents To Get More Sleeping Hours

Medical Residents To Get More Sleeping Hours

A national report has shown that the lack of sleep between shifts can disturb a doctor's work and,...
» read full story December 04th, 2008 - 10:56
Panel: Medical Residents Should Sleep More to Prevent Deadly Errors

Panel: Medical Residents Should Sleep More to Prevent Deadly Errors

A series of reports done on the medical field have revealed serious medical errors....
» read full story December 03rd, 2008 - 14:20
Chronically Ill Americans Experience More Medical Errors

Chronically Ill Americans Experience More Medical Errors

Chronically ill U.S. residents are more likely to forgo medical care on account of high costs or...
» read full story November 13th, 2008 - 21:53
U.S. Chronically Ill Patients More Likely to Be Subjected to Medical Errors

U.S. Chronically Ill Patients More Likely to Be Subjected to Medical Errors

A recently carried out survey reached the conclusion that the United States patients are the...
» read full story November 13th, 2008 - 20:21

Michigan Physicians Expand Electronic Records To Save Money

The Michigan State Medical Society is working to create a new Web-based system for its...
» read full story October 19th, 2008 - 19:44
Pediatricians More Likely to Admit Error When Obvious

Pediatricians More Likely to Admit Error When Obvious

A report in the October Issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the...
» read full story October 07th, 2008 - 14:40

Medicare Won’t Pay For Certain Hospital Errors Anymore

Medicare, the government insurance program for the elderly and disabled, will stop paying hospitals...
» read full story October 06th, 2008 - 14:50
Medicare to Halt Hospital Payments for Medical Errors

Medicare to Halt Hospital Payments for Medical Errors

On Wednesday, a Medicare resolution that entails stopping hospital payments for costs of medical...
» read full story October 01st, 2008 - 19:46
Study Finds Anthrax Vaccine Works In Fewer Doses

Study Finds Anthrax Vaccine Works In Fewer Doses

Giving fewer doses of the anthrax vaccine could be just as effective, offering protection from the...
» read full story October 01st, 2008 - 14:39
Joint Commission Issues Alert on Blood Thinners Use

Joint Commission Issues Alert on Blood Thinners Use

Trying to prevent more deaths due to anticoagulant medication errors, the Joint Commission, an...
» read full story September 25th, 2008 - 17:15
US Medical Errors Cost Nearly $1.5 Billion a Year

US Medical Errors Cost Nearly $1.5 Billion a Year

According to a new US government report released on Monday medical errors during or after the...
» read full story July 29th, 2008 - 14:08
Rx Drugs, Street Drugs & Alcohol Misuse Leads To More Deaths Than Ever

Rx Drugs, Street Drugs & Alcohol Misuse Leads To More Deaths Than Ever

Over the past two decades the number of Americans who died at home after combining street drugs...
» read full story July 29th, 2008 - 12:46
The Joint Commission: Hospitals Must Stop Tolerating Bad Behaviors!

The Joint Commission: Hospitals Must Stop Tolerating Bad Behaviors!

The Joint Commission, a national hospital-accrediting agency, warned Wednesday hospitals, clinics...
» read full story July 10th, 2008 - 13:50
CDPH Finds High Occurrence Of Patient Errors In Calif. Hospitals

CDPH Finds High Occurrence Of Patient Errors In Calif. Hospitals

The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) released a troubling report on the California...
» read full story June 30th, 2008 - 15:13
Few Doctors Adopt Electronic Health Records

Few Doctors Adopt Electronic Health Records

In a world of technology, the computer seems to be the answer to all our problems saving us a lot...
» read full story June 19th, 2008 - 13:33
California: Thirteen Hospitals Fined over Risking People’s Lives

California: Thirteen Hospitals Fined over Risking People’s Lives

California Department of Public Health fined or sent citations to thirteen hospitals for...
» read full story May 22nd, 2008 - 15:35
1,200 People Rinstated With Medical Insurance

1,200 People Rinstated With Medical Insurance

Kaiser Permanente and Health Net agreed to return the medical coverage to nearly 1,200 Californians...
» read full story May 16th, 2008 - 19:22
Survey Warns on Hospitals’ Disability to Handle Terrorist Strike

Survey Warns on Hospitals’ Disability to Handle Terrorist Strike

A new report released by the U.S. House of Representative on Monday clearly states that emergency...
» read full story May 08th, 2008 - 11:24
Online Storage of Medical Records Raises Privacy Issues

Online Storage of Medical Records Raises Privacy Issues

Following Microsoft and Google’s intentions to enter the medical field with programs designed to...
» read full story April 18th, 2008 - 11:23

Huge Number of Medical Errors Involving Kids Prompts Safety Alert

A hospital group in the United States has issued a safety alert aimed at preventing hospital...
» read full story April 12th, 2008 - 19:52
Medicals Errors Cost the US Lives and Billions of Dollars

Medicals Errors Cost the US Lives and Billions of Dollars

Hospitalization usually gives people a chance to get better, but there are also cases when...
» read full story April 10th, 2008 - 14:27
Online Hospital by Hospital Survey Gives Tips to Patients

Online Hospital by Hospital Survey Gives Tips to Patients

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and hospital quality experts released Friday the...
» read full story March 29th, 2008 - 10:19
Depressed Medical Residents Make More Mistakes

Depressed Medical Residents Make More Mistakes

Medical residents who suffer from depression are likely to make up to six times as many medication...
» read full story February 11th, 2008 - 16:47
Sinai Responsible for Quaid Babies' Overdose, Say Officials

Sinai Responsible for Quaid Babies' Overdose, Say Officials

California authorities have investigated the November incident in which Dennis Quaid’s...
» read full story January 10th, 2008 - 16:43
Electronic Records for Doctors Beginning with 2008

Electronic Records for Doctors Beginning with 2008

On Monday, the Bush administration set a pay cut for physicians who have not yet adopted electronic...
» read full story December 06th, 2007 - 14:53
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Technology

Hoax Story About Steve Jobs’ Death Hits Wired

Hoax Story About Steve Jobs’ Death Hits Wired

Wired.com has become the victim of a prankster who published a hoax story saying that Apple CEO...
» read full story January 24th, 2009 - 12:50
Doctors Are Not Ready For Electronic Medical Records

Doctors Are Not Ready For Electronic Medical Records

According to a national survey conducted by the U.S. government, doctors have a hard time switching...
» read full story June 20th, 2008 - 00:12
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Specials

Surgeon’s Checklist Could Reduce Surgical Errors

Surgeon’s Checklist Could Reduce Surgical Errors

A new study shows that surgeons who used a verbal checklist before, during and after the...
» read full story January 17th, 2009 - 14:13
Simple Checklist Reduces Risk of Accidental Deaths in Surgery

Simple Checklist Reduces Risk of Accidental Deaths in Surgery

Wednesday, doctors reported that a simple checklist made out to confirm a patient’s name, the...
» read full story January 15th, 2009 - 16:21
Everybody Is Expecting Obama’s Health Care Reform

Everybody Is Expecting Obama’s Health Care Reform

It’s not a secret to anyone that healthcare in the U.S. is currently flawed. Healthcare...
» read full story December 28th, 2008 - 23:05
Medical Residents Should Sleep More to Prevent Deadly Errors

Medical Residents Should Sleep More to Prevent Deadly Errors

A series of reports done on the medical field have revealed serious medical errors....
» read full story December 05th, 2008 - 22:14
Medical Residents Need a Sleep-Break after 16 Hours of Work

Medical Residents Need a Sleep-Break after 16 Hours of Work

Medical residents should work no longer than 16 hours in a row without a five-hour break for sleep...
» read full story December 04th, 2008 - 14:10
US Chronically Ill Patients Complain More about Health Care

US Chronically Ill Patients Complain More about Health Care

US chronically ill patients often skip medical care due to high costs or medical errors compared...
» read full story November 14th, 2008 - 15:33
Many U.S. Patients Dissatisfied with Their Pain Care

Many U.S. Patients Dissatisfied with Their Pain Care

According to a national survey of patients’ experiences, patients in many U.S. hospitals are not...
» read full story October 31st, 2008 - 13:30
Dennis Quaid Tells Congress About Twins Overdose

Dennis Quaid Tells Congress About Twins Overdose

Appearing before Congress on Wednesday, American actor Dennis Quaid testified about the nightmare...
» read full story May 15th, 2008 - 01:31
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Science

US Loses Lives and Money over Medical Errors

US Loses Lives and Money over Medical Errors

Hospitalization usually gives people a chance to get better, but there are also cases when...
» read full story April 09th, 2008 - 16:55
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Movies

Dennis Quaid Gets $750,000 Settlement From Cedars-Sinai Hospital

Dennis Quaid Gets $750,000 Settlement From Cedars-Sinai Hospital

Actor Dennis Quaid and his wife agreed to a $750,000 settlement with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in...
» read full story December 16th, 2008 - 18:10
Dennis Quaid Recalls 'Bloody' Baby Nightmare

Dennis Quaid Recalls 'Bloody' Baby Nightmare

It's been several months since Dennis Quaid's newborn twins almost died in a Los Angeles hospital...
» read full story March 16th, 2008 - 16:26
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World

Agreement to Triple AIDS Funding For PEPFAR

Agreement to Triple AIDS Funding For PEPFAR

The Bush administration recorded one of the most successful achievements yesterday when a major...
» read full story February 28th, 2008 - 16:31
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People

Dennis Quaid Reaches Settlement in Heparin Overdose Incident

Dennis Quaid Reaches Settlement in Heparin Overdose Incident

Actor Dennis Quaid and wife Kimberly have reached a $750,000 settlement with Cedars-Sinai ...
» read full story December 17th, 2008 - 16:52
Dennis Quaid Sues Baxter Corporation

Dennis Quaid Sues Baxter Corporation

Actor Dennis Quaid and his wife Kimberly Buffington decided to file a lawsuit against the...
» read full story December 05th, 2007 - 01:52
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