A CDC study was just released confirming what we already knew: healthcare workers are experiencing burnout. Healthcare workers have high rates of depression and anxiety, and many
Around 40 people were injected with a fluid that was not tested against harmful pathogens at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City.
A new study from the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute Center for Diagnostic Excellence estimates that possibly 795,000 people every year die or are seriously injured
A fecal transplant is when a doctor takes a sample of fecal matter from a donor and inserts it into the intestines of a patient,
We have written blogs recently that described how AI is being applied to medical issues, particularly with regard to radiology imaging. It seems now that
This summer a large study found “statistically significant decreases in the annual rates of in-hospital adverse events” for numerous indicators of patient safety. The study
Algorithms have long been used in medicine to evaluate whether targeted workups are needed for different conditions. They are computations that help providers determine the
The pandemic has caused us to make a major step backwards in controlling the spread of drug-resistant infections. Many of these drug-resistant infections have benefited
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected nearly every part of our lives for the last two-plus years. This includes the frequency with which we received our
Research shows that diagnostic errors occur in at least one in twenty medical encounters. Women and people are color are more likely to be misdiagnosed
