Big business in medical care often means sacrificing patient safety for bigger profits, and counting monetary fines for dangerous equipment as the cost of doing business.
A recent study suggests that a new high-sensitivity test for heart attacks will allow for results in only one hour.
Approximately 700,000 – 1,000,000 patients fall in hospitals in the United States each year.
Researchers are working on a simple blood test, requiring no more than a drop of blood, which could lead to a quick diagnosis of stroke.
New research on diabetic wound healing hold promise.
The patient harm resulting from dirty duodenoscopes could have been less if hospitals had been more forthright in disclosing the possible problems.
Proponents of tort reform in medical negligence cases sometimes argue that one big problem that is caused by the threat to doctors of a lawsuit is defensive medicine. One reason this is largely a myth is because it would be Medicare fraud.
Patient deaths and injuries can be reduced by using standardized communication systems when patients are handed off from one provider to another.