Health care providers must follow up on potentially serious lab and radiology results, even if they are "incidental" findings that the tests weren’t intending or expecting to find.
The findings of two new studies show that migraine sufferers are often treated with narcotic painkillers or barbiturates, which goes against guidelines for the safe treatment of such patients.
A new study suggests that, for some cases of appendicitis, the best course of action may not be surgery at all. Instead, antibiotics may be enough.
Delaying diagnosis and treatment of kidney stones results in increased risk for both complications and necessary additional care
New research confirms that Endovascular Therapy (ET) is a new and improved way to treat stroke victims.
The "Standard of Care" is something a jury decides, including not only evidence of how doctors in Washington state actually practice, but also what experts for both sides say is the standard.
A new stroke treatment recently studied in the Netherlands is giving the medical community hope that it will soon have another treatment for patients who suffer from ischemic strokes. The treatment involves threading a stent with a snare at the end up through an artery in the groin to grab and pull out the clot in the brain.
Hand-offs – patient information communicated from one provider to another – are a source of many errors that lead to patient injury. A new study and associated solution is hoping to cut those errors and increase patient safety.
There are real and obvious hazards to patients of electronic health records (EHR).
The New England Journal of Medicine concludes that medical malpractice lawsuits do not result in the practice of "defensive medicine." What they do result in is making it more difficult, and sometimes impossible, for patient victims to recover anything for their harms and losses.