I just celebrated a big milestone I hope you never reach: I hit my health insurance plan’s $10,150 out-of-pocket maximum less than five months into 2026, thanks mostly to two major eye surgeries. That ...
A systematic review of 91 studies shows AI-based medication recognition advancing rapidly through detection, OCR, and ...
A report challenges Ascension's explanation of the pharmacy error that paralyzed a patient, citing failures in safety controls.
An independent pharmacy expert says the medication error that harmed four patients at Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown was not the result of a single mistake, but a ...
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Medical errors

The spectre of medical errors is a critically important subject, one that is as old as organised medical practice itself. What is striking, however, is not merely their longevity but their alarming ...
A cross-sectional study of 450 healthcare professionals in Kwara State, Nigeria, finds that poor handwriting, communication ...
A new study led by researchers at The University of Manchester has found that digital technologies used in health care practices can significantly improve patient safety by reducing medication errors, ...
Medical errors remain one of the leading causes of death worldwide, rivaling heart disease and cancer. Yet while medicine has made dramatic progress in treating illness, it has made far less headway ...