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Patients who enter hospitals are at high risk of potentially deadly infections or medical mistakes

4/26/2011 - Americans may be putting their lives at risk every time they are admitted into a hospital. Hospitals are responsible for protecting and restoring our health, but they have instances of professional negligence and fatal errors. The April 2011 issue of Health Affairs tackled the theme of the quality...

Medical mistakes kill 15,000 patients every month

11/20/2010 - Your local hospital just might be more of a death trap than an actual health care facility. A new report issued by the Office of Inspector General at the Health and Human Services Department (HHS) says that every month roughly 134,000 hospital patients experience some type of adverse event during their...

After horrible deaths caused by medical radiation mistakes are uncovered, medical group issues (sort of) an apology

2/9/2010 - In late January, the New York Times published a startling and groundbreaking series of reports by investigative reporter Walt Bogdanich who has uncovered case after case of people who suffered devastating consequences -- including horrendously painful, torture-like deaths -- because of medical mistakes...

Brain Surgeons Can't Tell Left from Right: Third Operating Mistake on Wrong Side of Patient's Head

5/12/2008 - A hospital in Providence, R.I. has been sanctioned by the state's Department of Health and fined $50,000 after doctors operated on the wrong side of a patient's brain for the third time in one year. On November 23, a resident in training at Rhode Island Hospital began to drill into the right side...

Doctors kill more people than guns: urban legend or fact? (update 1)

11/30/2006 - A popular message circulating the internet claims that "guns don't kill people, doctors do," based on statistics that theoretically show that doctors are responsible for more accidental deaths every year than firearms. Independent research by NaturalNews staff shows that this claim is based on a logical...

Medical ethics: Hospital refuses to tell patients who received implants of stolen bones

9/25/2006 - Twenty-five hospitals in the UK may have used stolen bones for transplant recipients there, but officials won't tell patients who got transplants from which sources. More than 80 body parts from New Jersey-based Biomedical Tissue Services were used in procedures on dozens of patients in the UK, and...

U.S. healthcare system "dangerous" compared with two dozen industrialized nations

9/21/2006 - A new study by The Commonwealth Fund's Commission on a High Performance Health System shows that the U.S. healthcare system ranks far below those of nearly two dozen other industrialized nations. The study examined 37 national indicators of health outcomes, access, equity, quality and efficiency,...

Cancer patient killed by massive chemotherapy drugs administered with an automatic pump

9/1/2006 - Alberta Cancer Board official Dr. Tony Fields apologized Thursday to the family of a woman who died last week from massive overdose of the chemotherapy drug 5-fluorouracil, which led to multiple organ failure and internal bleeding. Two nurses -- described by Fields as very experienced and highly...

Statistics prove prescription drugs are 16,400% more deadly than terrorists

7/5/2005 - America was rudely awakened to a new kind of danger on September 11, 2001: Terrorism. The attacks that day left 2,996 people dead, including the passengers on the four commercial airliners that were used as weapons. Many feel it was the most tragic day in U.S. history. Four commercial jets crashed...

No honest investigation into accidental global release of Spanish Flu virus

6/4/2005 - What if a terrorist acquired a deadly strain of influenza that had killed millions of people in the past? What if that terrorist were able to replicate that virus, obtain the names and addresses of organizations all around the world, and distribute it across the world? What if that became headline news,...

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