By Shanoor Seervai with Sara Collins for The Commonwealth. Several bills introduced in Congress over the past year seek to make health care more accessible to all Americans while also tamping down growing health care… Read More
During a hospital stay, Medicare beneficiaries have important rights to receive the medical care they need. You have these rights whether you are enrolled in the original Medicare plan or a Medicare health plan. Your...
Hospital stays are difficult times for patients and their families, especially for those who need long term care upon discharge. Increasingly short hospital stays pose a tremendous challenge to families who have to arrange post-hospital...
Hospitals are dangerous places to be for several reasons. First, the only patients hospitalized are those who are very sick, those who need surgery that can’t be performed in an outpatient facility, or those who...
Since 2000, the FDA has issued more than 25 warnings and safety communications regarding biologic drugs. By John Fauber and Kevin Crowe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. With her kidneys and liver failing and a 106-degree temperature… Read More
By WILL WRIGHT, for Lexington Herald Leader. The federal government cut off Medicare and Medicaid payments to a Kentucky hospital last week following a scathing inspection that found the hospital failed several of its patients…. Read More
By Stephanie Nebehay, for Health News. Millions of people die each year from medical errors and infections linked to health care and going into hospital is far riskier than flying, the World Health Organization said… Read More
By KAREN DEWITT , WXXI News. A hearing on single-payer health care drew a big crowd at a hearing at the State Capitol on Tuesday. The New York State Legislature held a daylong hearing Tuesday… Read More
By Christina Jewett, for Kaiser Health News. Faced with the possibility that a bout of abnormal heartbeats could end his life, in 2006, Dr. Marc Sicklick had a small device implanted in his chest that… Read More
By MELISSA BAILEY, for STAT. Hospitals and doctors’ offices nationwide might have avoided nearly 2,000 patient deaths — and $1.7 billion in malpractice costs — if medical staff and patients communicated better, a report released… Read More