About 50,000 women per year suffer dangerous, and often life-threatening complications from medical mistakes and imprope ...

Going through the experience of surgery is hard enough, but when surgeons make the mistake of leaving surgical items in ...

A Medical Review Panel in Indiana, which consists of three healthcare professionals and one attorney, plays a significan ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning on the use of general anesthetics and sedation drugs during ...

The use of sedation drugs when performing dental procedures on small children can lead to severe brain damage. Several y ...

Valproate is known to cause birth injuries and developmental disorders in babies. Doctors have a responsibility to infor ...

Some serious medical conditions are more prone to misdiagnosis than others. A medical misdiagnosis affects one out of ev ...

Delayed skin cancer diagnosis makes treatment less likely to succeed and reduces the chances of survival since the cance ...

Electronic Medical Records are flanked with design flaws that subject patients to treatment mistakes and harm. These err ...

In an attempt to stop medical malpractice claims, many states have made it more difficult for patients to sue healthcare ...