Inquest examines hospital deaths
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Inquests begin into the deaths of 11 elderly and psychiatric patients at a Derby hospital.
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Twenty patients died in Minnesota hospitals during a 15-month period because of medical errors or oversights including falls, faulty medical equipment and administering the wrong medication, the state Health Department said in a new report.
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Workers at an inner-city hospital where a woman died last month on the floor of an emergency room have received training on their responsibilities, officials said.
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An assembly committee has called for an urgent independent inquiry into hospital-acquired infections.
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An independent inquiry is ordered after an increase in the number of deaths after heart transplants.
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When patients in the hospital suddenly go into cardiac arrest, the staff often takes too long to respond, increasing the risk of brain damage and death, a new study finds.
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Move follows series of suspicious deaths.
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A coroner begins summing up at the inquest into the death of heroin addict Rachel Whitear.
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An independent inquiry recommends sweeping changes to investigations into sudden infant deaths.
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A post-mortem examination is expected to be carried out later following the sudden death of Phil O'Donnell.
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A midwife at Antrim Area Hospital is suspended amid a police investigation into the deaths of two babies.
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Police are expected to release more details of how a mother and her children, found dead at their home, died.
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The coroner's reports on the deaths of nine patients trapped in a sweltering hospital in the days following Hurricane Katrina should be made public, a judge ruled Friday.
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HONG KONG : The first inquests related to the outbreak of SARS in Hong Kong last year opened in the territory on Monday with a coroner probing the deaths of six medical workers, judicial sources said.
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Â· Work pressures 'reduced woman to despair' Â· Coroner urges rule makers to consider effects on staff
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The cause of a mystery illness which killed a bank worker after she cut her foot in India is under investigation.
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A mental patient who complained of stomach pains was not properly examined or monitored in the hours before his dead body was discovered at St. Elizabeths Hospital, according to an investigation by the city's mental health agency.