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Hospitals May Be the Worst Place to Stay When You’re Sick
March 7, 2012Plus, how to protect yourself from medical errors by: Katharine Greider | from: AARP Bulletin | March 1, 2012 Mistakes run the gamut. The surgeon nicks a healthy blood vessel;
Consumer Reports release ratings on NY hospitals
March 5, 2012Posted: 02 Mar 2012 06:57 AM PST – Consumer Reports released rating of NY hospitals performance on four key measures of patient safety: hospital-acquired infections, readmissions, and how well hospital
FDA adds warnings about memory loss and blood sugar to widely used class of cholesterol drugs
February 29, 2012By Associated Press, Published: February 28, WASHINGTON — Federal health officials are adding new safety warnings about risks of memory loss and elevated blood sugar to statins, the most widely prescribed
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
Substantially Unsafe – Medical Devices Pose Great Threat to Patients; safeguards Must be Strengthened, Not Weakened
February 20, 2012February 2012 www.citizen.org Regulation of medical devices—a $350 billion industry that includes such products as heart and brain stents, artificial hips and implantable defibrillators—is at a crossroads. With a major
FDA releases long-awaited plan to review first generic versions of pricey biotech drugs
February 13, 2012By Associated Press, Updated: Saturday, February 11, 11:24 PM – WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration is preparing to review the first lower-cost versions of biotech drugs, expensive medications
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
Project Puts Records in the Patients’ Hands
January 10, 2012“The medical record is information that really belongs to the patient, but it’s treated like a classified document,” said Susan B. Frampton, president of Planetree, a nonprofit organization based in