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...

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...

Cox-2 inhibitors - The COX (cyclooxygenase)-2 inhibitors, also known as ‘selective non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs’ (NSAIDs), have long been touted as being safer...

A disease of doctors - When we think of pneumonia, we see it as a complicated and dangerous infection caused by bugs ‘in the air’. But there are a number of disparate, but c...

Laws don't change doctors - US doctors don't seem to be passing on the good news about breast conserving surgery to their patients even though they're required to do so by state...

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...

Doctors figure out when the healthiest babies conceived - Women who wait between 18 and 23 months before conceiving again after giving birth are most likely to have a healthy baby.