Because health care in the US is provided to its citizens in a business model, sometimes the motivations of hospitals and surgeons is not entirely on patient care and safety.
One sobering statistic related to America’s Abysmal Maternal Mortality Rates: 60% of those deaths were preventable.
After years of litigation, and over a hundred thousand injured people, the FDA has finally halted the sales of surgical pelvic mesh.
A recent study published by the New England Journal of Medicine found that approximately 1% of all physicians accounted for 32% of paid claims.
Recent developments in curing hepatitis C have allowed for a significant number of organs infected with the disease to be successfully transplanted.
The New England Journal of Medicine recently published results of a study which found that many more patients with aortic heart valve problems can avoid
The FDA recently issued a safety communication warning against the use of robotically assisted surgical devices in cancer treatments.
In spite of our apparent prosperity, mothers die in childbirth at greater rates in the United States than in any other developed nation.
The practice of overlapping surgeries is generally as safe as surgeries that do not overlap. However, there are some important caveats.
Electronic Health Records can help attorneys for an injured patient figure out what went wrong.