Consider Your Case Closed

By Mark Scolforo

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently reversed a 20-year-old rule requiring medical... Read More »

Court Loosens Rules on Where Malpractice Cases Can Be Filed

By Kaci Jones

Striking down a 90-year-old precedent in Byrd v. Marion General Hospital, the North Carolina... Read More »

NC Supreme Court Rules Nurses Can Be Held Legally Liable for Medical Mistakes

By Akilah Johnson

The Biden administration has developed a nearly 70-page plan that sets forth over 50 actions to... Read More »

America Has a Maternal Mortality Crisis. Biden Push Aims to Change That.

By Todd C. Frankel and Lenny Bernstein

A report from the U.S. Senate Finance Committee found that mistakes in transplant organ... Read More »

70 Deaths, Many Wasted Organs Are Blamed on Transplant System Errors

By Bernise Carolino

The California Court of Appeal for the Fifth District recently ruled that a hospital can be held... Read More »

California Court Rules Hospital 'Not Liable' for Doctor It Doesn't Employ

By Noel Eldridge, Yun Wang, Mark Metersky; et al.

Data from the Medicare Patient Safety Monitoring System show a downward pattern in... Read More »

Trends in Adverse Event Rates in Hospitalized Patients, 2010-2019

By Lena H. Sun

Hospital "superbug" infections, which declined almost 30% during 2012–2017, made... Read More »

Pandemic Fueled Surge in Superbug Infections and Deaths, CDC Says

By Richard Payerchin

New research in JAMA Network Open shows that many older adults in the United States regularly... Read More »

Age Discrimination May Be Taking Toll on Health of Older Adults Across U.S.

By Denise Roland

Although a battery of safety tests conducted on Royal Philips' DreamStation One CPAP machine... Read More »

Recalled Sleep-Apnea Machines Pass Key Safety Tests, Philips Says