Category Archives: Headline of the Day
Analysis: Is A New Federal Patient Safety Effort Doing Enough To Curb Medical Errors?
February 23, 2012By Michael L. Millenson – Feb 22, 2012 The Medicare program is betting on a new course of action to curb what one medical journal has dubbed an “epidemic” of uncontrolled patient
TODAY Investigates: Dirty surgical instruments a problem in the OR
February 22, 2012By Stacey Naggiar and Kerri Zimmer NBC News A new report suggests doctors across the country are using surgical tools contaminated with blood and other debris and because the FDA doesn’t
C-HIT Story Sparks US Senators’ Request For Probe of State Medical Boards Physician Oversight
February 21, 2012New Haven Independent by Lisa Chedekel | Feb 20, 2012 8:00 pm. Three U.S. senators are asking the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to investigate
Doctors Admit Lying to Patients
February 13, 2012by Pat Anson on February 11, 2012 – Two national surveys of doctors in the U.S. have uncovered shocking admissions that many physicians lie to their patients, withhold information about
Hospital Infection Rates Now on Medicare Website
February 2, 2012NationalJournal by Margot Sanger-Katz Updated: February 1, 2012 | 2:48 p.m – Hospital-acquired infections are a leading cause of death in this country, with estimates of the death toll nearing 100,000 lives
Safe To Be Sick
January 31, 2012National Journal By Maggie Fox Updated: January 26, 2012 | 10:25 a.m. – Thousands of people die every year from infections they get at a hospital. With prodding from the
Hospital Errors Persist, State Probes Rare
January 30, 2012by Lisa Chedekel – Jan 29, 2012 9:00 pm – Incidents of pressure ulcers, wrong-site surgeries and other surgical errors reported by Connecticut hospitals have increased in the last five
Dangerous infections are more likely in pediatric intensive-care units
January 27, 2012But hospitals and parents can take steps to prevent them, our investigation found. Having a child in intensive care is scary enough without the added worry of deadly hospital-acquired infections.
Danger in delivery: Despite technology, U.S. trails entire western world in saving mothers
January 25, 2012Women in the United States are more likely to die during or shortly after childbirth than women in nearly all countries in Europe and many in Asia and the Middle
Blumenthal Sponsors Bill To Protect Patients From Unsafe Medical Devices
January 19, 2012U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal has joined two other senators introducing legislation designed to protect patients from unsafe medical devices without derailing the current fast-tracking system of medical device approvals. Read