Four-year-old boy died on hospital ward where he was so neglected he resorted to sucking moisture out of wet wipes, inquest is told Steve and Yolanda Turner hold a portrait of their late son Sean Photo: SWNS By Agencies 2:22PM GMT… Read More ›
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Staying on medication had surprisingly little effect lowering hospital readmission rates
Contact: Sarah Avery sarah.avery@duke.edu 919-660-1306 Duke University Medical Center Staying on medication may not translate to avoiding readmission DURHAM, N.C. – A targeted effort to help high-risk heart failure patients stay on their medications did improve adherence to drug regimens,… Read More ›
Reclusive heiress Huguette Clark’s estate sues New York hospital and doctor ‘for failing to discharge her for 20 years in order to extract gifts’
Dr Henry Singman and Beth Israel Medical Center were less dedicated to Huguette Clark’s welfare than their own, says the new lawsuit Clark died at Beth Israel aged 104 in 2011, leaving no close relatives and a roughly $300 million … Read More ›
NHS patients ‘frightened to ask for help’ as wards ‘stretched to breaking point’ With the “normalisation of cruelty” (U.K.)
Hospitals have made “no improvement” since the Mid-Staffs scandal in ensuring patients are kept safe or treated with dignity, Care Quality Commission finds Inspections which focussed on the neglect of elderly people treated in hospital found a rapidly worsening situation,… Read More ›
How Many Die from Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals? ( between 210,000 and 440,000 patients each year )
An updated estimate says it could be at least 210,000 patients a year, more than twice the number in a frequently quoted Institute of Medicine report By Marshall Allen and ProPublica | Friday, September 20, 2013 | ULTIMATE MALPRACTICE: An updated… Read More ›
U.S. hospital ICU admissions up 50 percent since 2002
Published: May 15, 2013 at 10:25 PM WASHINGTON, May 15 (UPI) — Admissions to U.S. hospital intensive care units jumped 50 percent from 2002 to 2009, but researchers are not sure why. Lead author Peter Mullins of George Washington University’s… Read More ›
Fired for Reporting ICU Risks, Kaiser Nurse Says
By WILLIAM DOTINGA OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) – A nurse claims that Kaiser Permanente managers fired her after she complained about sub-standard conditions in the neonatal intensive care unit of a newly-opened facility. Dawn Smith sued the Permanente Medical… Read More ›
Vitamin E effective for ‘silent’ liver disease
2010 study posted for filing Contact: Jennifer Homa jeh9057@nyp.org 212-305-5587 New York- Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center NIH-funded, NEJM study is largest ever to look at nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, an obesity-related condition NEW YORK (April 29, 2010) — Vitamin E has… Read More ›
Patients starve and die of thirst on hospital wards (U.K.)
Forty-three hospital patients starved to death last year and 111 died of thirst while being treated on wards, new figures disclose today. There were 558 cases last year where doctors recorded that a patient had died in a state of… Read More ›
NHS hospitals sending your confidential notes to India to be typed up
A series of hospitals have admitted using cheap secretarial agencies in India By Sophie Borland PUBLISHED:10:53 EST, 10 September 2012| UPDATED:19:25 EST, 10 September 2012 Hospitals are sending hundreds of thousands of confidential letters about patients to India to be… Read More ›
Hospitals ‘letting patients die to save money’
Hospitals may be depriving elderly patients of food and drink to hasten their deaths as part of cost-cutting measures to free up bed space, leading doctors warn. By Stephen Adams, Medical Correspondent Tens of thousands of patients with terminal illnesses… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 