Medtronic Plc said on Tuesday it would pay $50.9 million to resolve U.S. Justice Department probes into how companies it...
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Officials say the Detroit Medical Center has spent $1.2 million since September to correct problems with dirty surgical instruments and...
Medical errors in U.S. hospitals kill tens of thousands of patients each year, and even more suffer injury because of...
America’s system for ensuring that medical devices are safe failed at every turn when dirty endoscopes began spreading deadly superbugs,...
Fewer patients are dying from conditions acquired while staying in the nation’s hospitals, according to a new federal report. Statistics...
Nearly 40 percent of California hospitals earned low ratings for patient safety in a recent national assessment. The Los Angeles...
A jury in one of New York’s most conservative counties recently returned a $130 million verdict in a medical-malpractice case,...
Oklahoma’s Dental Act was intended to ensure patient safety, but limited funding for regulators, a small staff and a state...
Kim Bondy was in New Orleans seven years ago when Hurricane Katrina devastated the city, and scores of patients died...
The nation’s transition to electronic medical records, now in full swing, risks overlooking potential patient safety problems, independent advisers warned...