Posts in October, 2013

When a Nebraska high school student suffered a concussion playing football this fall, there was good news. His school had taken ...

Leaving foreign objects in the body after surgery is called a “never event” — a mistake so preventable that it should never happen ...

Last year, an Oklahoma woman had no reason to wonder what a brachial plexus might be, let alone that injuring it might lead to a ...

Last week, an extremely disturbing story of hospital negligence was brought to light. A patient being treated for an infection at ...

A health writer for Yahoo recently put together a list of the top 8 mistakes hospitals commonly make in treating patients. The ...

A study just published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that some 40 percent of people who experience delirium in ...