Poor Medical Treatment Kills Thousands Each Year
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Requiring doctors and hospitals to report publicly on their performance and tying their pay to the results would dramatically reduce avoidable deaths and costs attributable to poor medical care, says a new report from an organization that works to improve health care quality.    Wild variations in medical care led to 79,000 avoidable deaths and $1.8 billion in additional medical costs last year, the private National Committee for Quality Assurance said in its annual report released Wednesday...
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About half of all US patients receive inadequate health care, the private National Committee for Quality Assurance said in its annual report released Wednesday.
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AIDS. It killed roughly 3 million people last year, most of them poor, and most of them in Africa. Between 34 and 42 million people are living with HIV.
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Requiring doctors and hospitals to report publicly on their performance and tying their pay to the results would dramatically reduce avoidable deaths and costs attributable to poor medical care, says a new report from an organization
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WASHINGTON -- The World Health Organization says one in 10 hospital patients are victims of sometimes fatal medical mistakes that could have been prevented.
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Global health leaders meeting in Mexico this week want nations of the world to spend more on medical research, not only to develop new cures but to make those now on the market available to the poor.
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MEXICO CITY - Many countries can&#39;t say how many of their citizens die every year or what kills them, undermining efforts to combat disease and deliver necessary medications to the sickest and poorest corners of the globe, a top health official said
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Geneva - Children with HIV and Aids are dying needlessly because of a lack of suitable drugs and the high cost of medicines adapted to their needs, the humanitarian organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Tuesday.
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Some of the world's best minds explore cures for the most difficult problems in providing quality medical care for all.
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Safety lapses in the NHS caused the deaths of more than 2,000 patients and led to the harm of another 160,000 people over the last year.
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More than 17,000 deaths a year are unnecessary and down to poor NHS performance, a study says.
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Modern medicine can keep people alive into their 9th and 10th decades, but a growing number of these people are asking why.
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A lack of drugs adapted to the needs of children with HIV/AIDS means that many of them are dying needlessly, says the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders.
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Giving birth in poor countries proves fatal for more than half a million women every year, or one every minute, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday, warning preventable deaths have reached epidemic levels.
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Anti-inflammatory drugs routinely given to patients with serious head injuries may have killed 10,000 people over the past few decades, according to research.
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Cancer is killing millions in Europe - and more must be done to prevent its most common forms, experts warn.
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Some 1.6 million people, mainly small children, die each year from a "kitchen killer" -- disease brought on by inhaling smoke from cooking stoves and indoor fires, the World Health Organization said on Friday.