A mother's use of antidepressants like Prozac during pregnancy does not increase the risk of stillbirth or infant mortality, according to a study in The Journal of the American Medical Association. The reason for the association between antidepressants and...
A group of doctors at an Ohio community hospital settled with the Justice Department over accusations that some of the unusually high rates of heart procedures performed on patients were medically unnecessary, according to The New York Times. Medicare...
As the beginning of a new genetic age in cancer research mounts, three pharmaceutical companies are poised to test whether new drugs can work against a wide range of cancers independently of where they originated. Such drugs could mean new treatments for rare,...
Researchers have found that there have been nearly 10,000 reported instances of "never events", or surgical mistakes that have no legitimate reason for their ever happening, within the past 20 years. These mistakes, which include a surgeon leaving a foreign object in...
A second wave of serious infections from the same tainted drug that caused a nationwide meningitis outbreak is now ongoing, according to The New York Times. The drug, which contaminated nearly 14,000 people with a fungus that caused a public health disaster now...
New research concludes that there is little benefit for annual physical exams when it comes to healthy people. A study analyzing information from 183,000 people in the U.S. and Europe showed patients who received routine health checks were just as likely to die...
It is estimated that about one in 20 hospitalized patients get an infection, resulting in up to $33 billion in additional costs each year, according to researchers in the New England Journal of Medicine. A Medicare payment policy designed to push hospitals to cut...
Nearly half of U.S. physicians experience symptoms of burnout - think exhaustion and depression - according to a new study in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine. When a physician has the life of you or a loved one in his or her hands, it is of the utmost...
The family of Daniel Hughes, the Ohio State freshman who was hit by a dump truck on campus September 5, has filed negligence lawsuits against the university and several contractors. Hughes, 18, lost his right leg and suffered severe damage to his pelvis and spine as a...
New York health officials are poised to make their state the first in the nation to require that hospitals aggressively look for sepsis in patients so treatment can begin sooner, according to The New York Times. Sepsis, an abnormal and self-destructive immune...
