Surgeon&#39;s errors ignored / Hospital&#39;s failure to maintain skill ...
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Across the board, medical specialists are pointing out the shockingly low skill level of a 45-year-old surgeon at Tokyo Medical University Hospital, four of whose patients have died following heart valve operations since October 2002.
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Young children are the most likely victims of surgery-related medication mistakes, a new study has found, and poor communication is the most likely culprit.
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BERKELEY, Calif. A bad performance audit could lead one of the Bay Area&#39;s premier hospitals to lose its accreditation in three years, if the problems uncovered aren&#39;t fixed.
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The government announces proposals to improve patient safety as a study finds current safeguards are failing.
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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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Two patients given inaccurate test results have died after a hospital failed to diagnose cancer in three other patients.
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Eighty percent of U.S. doctors and  half of nurses surveyed said they had seen colleagues make  mistakes, but only 10 percent ever spoke up, according to a  study released on Wednesday.
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America's doctors-in-training are  committing serious errors as a result of being forced to work  over 80 hours a week, says new research which suggests the U.S.  medical community has been slow to tackle sleep deprivation in  its staff.
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as it does often in political circles these days -- there is an assumption that waits for surgery are caused by inadequate resources.
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Dentists who fail to be upfront with patients about their treatment options could face disciplinary action.
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There are big variations in the amount of time a patient remains in hospital following standard surgery in England, research suggests.
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Gaps in insurance arenât the only problem with the medical system. Hospitals should be required to report more information.
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From prescribing overdoses to sticking a tube in the wrong vein, doctors-in-training made one-third more serious mistakes during typically long shifts than they did during &quot;short&quot; 16-hour ones, a Harvard study found.
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NEW YORK  - How a hospital rates in terms of the quality of care it provides does not appear to be closely linked to patient outcomes, according to a study in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Â· Government failed to follow up patients at riskÂ· Danger of wider infection a 'serious problem'
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A hospital which gave 12 patients the wrong results after cancer checks, finds more 'discrepancies'.
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Â· Channel controller refuses to resign over editing error  Â· Staff are urged to look for any further 'incidents'