(Natural News) A recent investigation led by Kaiser Health News and USA Today has revealed a shocking truth: Deaths and serious injuries abound at surgery centers, and lack of rules and regulations means there is little to no accountability. Between the tremendous variability in state laws and the fact that that doctors blacklisted by hospitals […]

(Natural News) “My grandson was almost killed,” Gabe Zolna recalls. Oddly enough, it wasn’t a disease or an accident that nearly took his boy’s life – it was a slice of pizza from a negligent nurse. His grandson, he added, had an allergic reaction to a protein found in milk – something that would make him […]

(Natural News) An unintended consequence of automation and the speed in which it is improved is that humans can’t keep up. While this may not seem important to you now, consider that the newly graduated surgeon performing on you may have no idea what he’s doing. This is the warning given by Matthew Beane, an […]

(Natural News) The usage of general anesthesia can have detrimental effects on the brains of young children. This was the conclusion that Dr. Vesna Jevtovic-Todorovi, head of the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, came to in her review of past scientific studies that discussed the matter. The studies that […]

(Natural News) Half of American women who undergo bilateral mastectomy after genetic testing for breast cancer do not carry cancer-causing genes at all, a study revealed. The number of women undergoing preventive mastectomy reached exponential proportions following Angelina Jolie’s highly-publicized decision to remove both of her breasts in 2013. According to health professionals, millions have already […]

(Natural News) What was supposed to be a routine IV drip for one woman turned out to be a prolonged and agonizing death sentence, when hospital staff mistakenly injected her with formalin, which effectively led to her being embalmed alive. As online reports go, 27-year old Ekaterina Fedyaeva is said to have died after medics […]

(Natural News) If you find out you have breast cancer, your first instinct might be to get rid of it using whatever means possible. Having a mastectomy isn’t a decision any woman takes lightly, of course, but, for many, the idea of sacrificing your breast to be cancer-free seems like a fair trade to make. […]

(Natural News) Many present-day conveniences are rooted in once-exclusive space industry innovations. As it turns out, the same can also apply to certain types of high-level medical equipment. Back in the 1980s, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) came up with Canadarm, a robotic manipulation system that was designed to be used in zero […]

(Natural News) An 80-year old Connecticut man owed his life to a virus taken from a nearby lake. Experimental bacteriophage therapy with the OMKO1 virus eliminated an antibiotic-resistant infection that was threatening the man’s heart, according to a LiveScience article. Researchers from the Yale School of Medicine (YSM) in New Haven, Connecticut reported that the naturally-occurring virus succeeded in treating Pseudomonas […]

(Natural News) It is common procedure for patients undergoing major surgeries to first receive a specialized dose of anesthesia in order to put them to “sleep.” But the long-term cognitive effects of exposure to such drugs appears to be detrimental, according to a new study published in the journal Anaesthesia. For their paper, researchers from […]