By Natalie Musumeci, New York Post, November 27, 2019. A New Jersey patient was accidentally put at the top of a transplant list and received a kidney meant for someone else — who happened to… Read More
By Paula Span, The New York Times, October 14, 2019. It’s such a common routine in a doctor’s office or clinic or hospital that patients tend to comply without thinking: Step on the scale, roll
By Christopher Cheney, HealthLeaders Media, October 29, 2019. For the first time, The Leapfrog Group has collected patient safety and quality information about ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) and hospital outpatient departments (HOPDs). KEY TAKEAWAYS Only...
By Christopher Cheney, HealthLeaders Media, October 08, 2019. Surgical staplers are the top medical technology hazard for 2020, according to the ECRI Institute. Twenty years after publication of the Institute of Medicine’s landmark report To… Read More
By Ana B. Ibarra, KHN, Nov 14, 2019. Russell Desmond received a letter a few weeks ago from the American Kidney Fund that he said felt like “a smack on the face.” The organization informed… Read More
By Phil Galewitz, KHN, Nov 19, 2019. In the Byzantine world of health care pricing, most people wouldn’t expect that the ubiquitous flu shot could be a prime example of how the system’s lack of… Read More
By Barbara Feder Ostrov, KHN, Nov 14, 2019. As huge swaths of California burned last fall, federal health officials descended on 20 California nursing homes to determine whether they were prepared to protect their vulnerable… Read More
By Jayne O’Donnell, USA TODAY, May 15, 2019. Patients’ risk of dying from medical mistakes, deadly infections and safety lapses have gotten much worse at the lowest ranked U.S. hospitals, underscoring Americans’ need to check… Read More
By STEVEN REINBERG, HEALTHDAY, FEB 08, 2018. A colonoscopy can save your life by detecting and removing colon cancer, but it might also trigger appendicitis, a recent study suggests. Experts aren’t sure exactly why that… Read More
Drug therapy alone may save lives as effectively as bypass or stenting procedures, a large federal study showed. By Gina Kolata, The New York Times, Nov. 16, 2019. The findings of a large federal study… Read More