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

Avian Flu: More bad news for our greatest hope - Anyone here remember avian flu? You know, nasty disease, kills everyone. Even the UK’s very own chief medical officer of health Sir Liam Donaldson t...

Medical errors: now here's an idea. . . - A phrase that includes something about stable doors and bolting horses comes to mind as we read that the UK is launching the world s first system to c...

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...

Doctor Error: One-third of hospital doctors make ‘major mistake’ every year - A third of all hospital doctors make at least one major mistake – which may harm the patient or even result in his death – every year, a new study has...

Medical blunders - One in three us patients is a victim of error - New findings indicate that one in three patients in the US will be the victim of a medical blunder - a mistake in treatment, the wrong medication or d...

Human insulin - I am an insulin-dependent diabetic - a life-long medical condition. At the beginning of the 1980s, all diabetics were transferred from animal to human...