A new book by a Johns Hopkins surgeon reveals alarming flaws in global healthcare, citing widespread unnecessary surgeries, ...

An average of 195,000 people in the USA died due to potentially preventable, in-hospital medical errors in each of the years 2000, 2001 and 2002, according to a new study of 37 million patient ...

True or false? A trip to the doctor’s is guaranteed to make you feel better. The answer is false, unfortunately, as all-too-common issues like medical errors can send patients home feeling worse ...

An alarming 18-20 per cent of hospitalised patients in the country lose their lives due to medical errors, negligence, misadministration of drugs, and deadly infections in the hospitals, experts ...

The migraine I'd been suffering for two weeks was nothing compared to the searing pain that suddenly shot through the left side of my head as I lay sleeping in bed one night. It was a pain as ...

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