Hospital deaths inquiries dropped
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Inquiries into the deaths of two children at NI hospitals are dropped, but a third is still being investigated.
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Nearly a year after sweeping medical liability reform in Texas, hospitals are reporting a significant drop in their liability costs, according to a new study.
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The attorney general denies reports a fraud probe into a Saudi arms deal was dropped due to Downing St pressure.
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A probe used by hospitals to measure gas in patients&#39; tissues has been recalled after the device was linked to several infections in critically ill children, three of whom died.
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The Shipman Inquiry investigated the deaths in the early 1970s of 137 hospital patients, it has been revealed.
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Cutting the grueling work hours of doctors-in-training had little effect on reducing patient deaths, according to two large studies.
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A hospital has closed its neonatal and pediatrics intensive care units to new admissions after a potentially fatal bacterium sickened seven children, including an infant who may have died from the infection, officials said Friday.
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Breast cancer screening has nearly halved the number of deaths from the disease, according to a study of women seen on the NHS published today
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Scores of patients at the V.A. hospital in Albany were put at risk, and employees say bigger concerns were dismissed by officials.
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The Bush administration is backing off plans to require hospitals to ask emergency room patients their immigration status, after hospitals and advocates for immigrants protested.
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St. Joseph&#39;s Regional Health Care will eliminate a 24-bed mental health ward at the former London psychiatric hospital, its management at odds yesterday with workers over whether the reduction will harm the mentally ill.
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Charges against three people following a nursing home fire in which 14 people died are dropped.
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NEW YORK -- The federal government has abandoned an effort to create standard autopsy guidelines that could document a link between toxic air at Ground Zero and deaths of rescue workers, citing concerns that the data could be misinterpreted.
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Over 100 hospital wards closed amid fears that infection will spread
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Two patients given inaccurate test results have died after a hospital failed to diagnose cancer in three other patients.
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A patient died at a troubled hospital after an intensive care nurse ignored her worsening condition and alerted doctors only after the woman went into cardiac arrest, Los Angeles County health officials said.
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The local police chief stopped doctors at the hospital where Benazir Bhutto died from conducting an autopsy, according to a lawyer on the hospital's board. The revelation came on Monday after a new videotape of Bhutto's assassination emerged, showing her slumping just after gunshots rang out.