Category Archives: Headline of the Day
Hospital infections cost U.S. $10 billion a year
September 23, 2013By Anne Harding | Reuters – Thu, Sep 12, 2013 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Infections acquired in the hospital cost the U.S. health care system $10 billion a year, new findings
Cancer patients overtreated in final days, study finds
September 23, 2013Philly.Com By Stacey Burling, Inquirer Staff Writer Posted: September 19, 2013 While most older people say they don’t want aggressive care at the end of life, many get it anyway.
How Many Die From Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals?
September 23, 2013by Marshall Allen ProPublica, Sep. 19, 2013, 10:03 a.m. It seems that every time researchers estimate how often a medical mistake contributes to a hospital patient’s death, the numbers come out
Improper use of antibiotics kills thousands and harms millions every year, CDC says
September 18, 2013ConsumerReports.Org Published: September 16, 2013 12:00 PM – Misuse of antibiotics harms million of people each year and kills thousands, according to a report out today from the Centers for Disease
New Concerns on Robotic Surgeries
September 11, 2013NY Times September 9, 2013, By RONI CARYN RABIN In early March 2009, Erin Izumi, a woman in her 30s from Tacoma, Wash., underwent robotically assisted surgery to treat endometriosis.
Westport Surgical Center Placed On Two-Year Probation, Fined
September 10, 2013By KATE FARRISH, Conn. Health I-Team Writer The Hartford Courant, August 29, 2013 – A Westport surgery center where rusty equipment and a broken fire alarm system were found by inspectors
How a Cabal Keeps Generics Scarce
September 10, 2013NY Times By MARGARET CLAPP, MICHAEL A. RIE and PHILLIP L. ZWEIG September 2, 2013 – ABOUT a year ago, President Obama signed a law that was supposed to end chronic shortages of lifesaving drugs. But the
Faster Assistance for Medicare Patients
August 27, 2013The NY Times The New Old Age Caring and Coping August 23, 2013, By JUDITH GRAHAM Just over a year ago, Medicare quality improvement organizations (Q.I.O.’s) across the country began
Heart Stents Still Overused, Experts Say
August 16, 2013NY Times August 15, 2013, By ANAHAD O’CONNOR Every year, more than half a million Americans undergo procedures to have a narrowed coronary artery propped open with a small metal
Is The FDA Being Compromised By Pharma Payments?
August 11, 2013Forbes John LaMattina, 8/07/2013 In touting an upcoming special issue of the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics (JLME), Donald W. Light of the School of Public Health, University of Medicine