Five years after a landmark study, patient safety remains in ...
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When Dr. Robert Wachter&#39;s wife underwent surgery in October to donate a kidney to a friend, her chief anxiety, he said, was &quot;the possibility that she might be killed by a medical mistake.
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Last December, medical school researchers came to a professional meeting in Puerto Rico with a sense of urgency. Federal drug regulators were reviewing unpublished data from their studies on
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Despite exploding costs, most Americans got sizable life-extending bang for their medical bucks over recent decades, says one of the most sweeping studies ever of health-care value.
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The Massachusetts Hospital Association is expected to unveil an ambitious program today to improve patient safety in the state's 105 hospitals, including public posting of nurses' workloads at individual hospitals and the number of hours each day they spend directly caring for patients.
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The pharmaceutical industry made a commitment Thursday to publish more data about clinical drug trials, amid growing questions about the safety of many leading companies' medicines.
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Citing statistics that one in 10 hospital patients are victims of preventable medical mistakes, the World Health Organization on Wednesday launched an initiative to create a &quot;culture of safety&quot; in health care.
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(December 29, 2004) - Six clinical studies at the University of Rochester Medical Center have ended because of findings that question the safety of the drugs under investigation.
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Almost one-fifth of the Food and Drug Administration scientists surveyed two years ago as part of an official review said they had been pressured to recommend approval of a new drug despite
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Nearly 5 million hospital admissions  might have been prevented in 2000 if patients had received high  quality primary and preventive care, according to a government  report issued on Thursday.
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The risk of treatment-related or toxic death for US cancer patients enrolled in phase 1 clinical drug trials has decreased during the past 12 years.
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The study is unlikely to end the increasingly charged debate about vaccine safety.
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Kaiser Permanente, one of the biggest   U.S. health and hospital systems, has begun to study the safety   of drug-coated stents amid new signals that the widely used   heart devices might lead to fatal blood clots.
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Medication mistakes injure well over 1.5 million Americans every year, a toll too often unrecognized and unfought, says a sobering call to action.
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Stephen L. Johnson said that the annual standard would remain at its current level while research continued.
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A survey of hospital review boards that watchdog experiments on patients shows that one in three members takes money from companies that make drugs and medical devices that come under study. What's more, many of those with conflicts rarely or never disclose their financial ties, researchers found.
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Nearly a quarter of follow-up studies required by the Food and Drug Administration for medical devices in recent years were never completed, according to a senior
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U.S. lawmakers and health officials  are moving to give more independence to an office that reviews  drug safety, but some experts say ensuring medicines are  studied after they hit the market is more important than the  bureaucratic pecking order.