Medical errors - Tracking down the exact prevalence of medical errors is a difficult task as many incidents go unreported. However, what estimates are available descri...

Us doctors downplay medical errors - A new survey shows that US physicians do not believe that the problem of medical errors is as significant as the 1999 report by the Institute of Medic...

Doctors are also victims of medical errors - In a recent US survey, over 40 per cent of people said they or their families had been the victim of medical errors - as did 35 per cent of doctors

Adverse Reactions: 700,000 people need emergency hospital care every year - Statistic of the week: Every year 700,000 people in the USA need emergency out-patient hospital care following an adverse reaction to a prescription...

Drug reactions: - It's the culprit more often than we're told - Drug regulators and drug companies are prepared to accept that at least 100,000 people in America alone die from an adverse reaction to a drug every y...

Agency cracks open its doors - The Medicines Control Agency (MCA), the UK government body that licenses new drugs, opened its doors to the public for the first time recently but fai...

Children in Hospital: 11 per cent will have a drug reaction - How safe are our children in hospital? Not very, it seems, with 11 per cent who are given a drug suffering a serious adverse reaction.

Medical mistakes: doctors say the system's to blame - A recent US document published by the Institute of Medicine showed that up to 98,000 people die in the US each year due to medical error more than die...