August 27, 2026: Watch Dr. Diana Zuckerman explain why earlier isn’t always better when it comes to breast cancer screening.

Epic says that the increase in phishing attempts are just cybercriminals taking advantage of the MyChart brand rather than a security concern.

Is it OK to raise this issue? I don’t want to be a bother.

Mayo’s former director of research operations alleges she was sidelined, then terminated, for raising objections over lax standards of studies involving AI.

A Georgia woman is taking legal action after what she says was a devastating medical mistake that forever changed her life.

Yvette Cooper’s maternity reforms must change a system that too often fails women when they’re at their most vulnerable, says journalist and author Natalie Morris

The homepage for the National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation. Details the purpose of the Investigation, Chair and expert panel biographies.

Congress appropriated $345 million for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for the 2026 fiscal year, but the agency has spent less than $15 million on grants. AHRQ hasn’t issued a new one i...

Parents want accountability after study went disastrously wrong, Science and Retraction Watch investigation reveals

Atypical presentations of most diseases are both common and commonly missed

The change will hopefully clarify the way that doctors treat PCOS

Intuitive-backed startup Sovato hopes to take remote surgery mainstream.

Drugmakers, influencers, and industry-funded advocacy groups are pushing Alzheimer’s screenings that could label millions of Americans as sick — despite shaky science and dangerous treatments.

I'm part of a lawsuit to help prevent corporations from dictating care

The thinking about what risk Covid poses — or doesn't pose — has shifted in recent years. What does it mean for you?

Patients are getting stuck in the emergency department for days while waiting for a spot in an inpatient ward.

A member of the Medical Board of California is sounding the alarm once again on what he calls a dangerous gap in patient safety.

Exclusive: System brought in after death of 13-year-old is helping ‘transform culture’ of NHS, says patient safety director

The real challenge isn’t whether AI works. It’s knowing when, writes William Warr.

Three patients at New York City clinic developed fungal keratitis caused by a mold

Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...

Precious murals by Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, and others are even more endangered than we knew.

Precious murals by Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, and others are even more endangered than we knew.

The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto The Lancet has put an expression of concern on a 2006 case report of a baby’s death purportedly from morphine poisoning through breast milk. The decision c…

Dr Maurie Markman highlights why oncologists must look beyond 5-year survival, as JCO data show lasting health risks after childhood cancer.

The website is delayed as senators seek answers from health department watchdog.

In this second report on the global state of patient safety (the first was published in 2023), Norway is still number one in the ranking, with the UK 21st out of 38 OECD countries.

“I don’t think people should have to go through 18 years of brain cancer to understand their own health records,” writes Liz Salmi.

BACKGROUND: Discontinuing statin therapy before pregnancy remains challenging, especially in high-risk women. We evaluated the risks of maternal cardiovascular, gestational, and fetal outcomes associa...

Advancing Equity and Implementing National Strategies to Improve Diagnosis Funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, this collaborative program between the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) an...

Expansion of preventive clinical recommendations in primary care has had the unintended consequence of destabilising this foundation of the healthcare system, argue Minna Johansson and colleagues Fo...

Many medical facilities across the U.S. use hoods on psychiatric patients to block them from spitting. Experts say the practice is traumatic and can be dangerous.

WHO regrets the United States’ notification of withdrawal from WHO – a decision that makes both the United States and the world less safe. The notification of withdrawal raises issues that will be con...

Palm Beach Health Network has spent millions of dollars to sue Leapfrog, a nonprofit watchdog, reporting their patient safety record.

The first known outbreak of syphilis in Europe began at the turn of the 16th century, but on the distant continent of South America, the pathogen's history goes much deeper than that.

She had been told that there had been an accident, that Donna was hurt really badly, that she might not make it. But when Tamara Ledbetter got to her older sister in Mission Hospital’s intensive care ...

New research questioned old assumptions

Kaiser Permanente uses a shared electronic health record to leverage access to cancer subspecialists across all its regions.

The fungus poses a greater risk for vulnerable populations in nursing homes and hospitals

This randomized clinical trial examines whether risk-based screening is a safe and effective alternative to annual mammography for detecting breast cancer in women 40 years and older.

Critics debate whether medical board oversight or legal reform is needed.

Agency is so poorly staffed that it's sometimes unable to make sure companies protect patients

Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) has shadowed critical care for decades; costly, persistent, and often fatal. We have refined our bundles, elevated our standards, and educated frontline teams, ye...

The Kentucky board that licenses and regulates optometrists met Friday amid growing controversy about waivers it granted some candidates in recent years who hadn’t met all requirements for licensure. ...