A former Tennessee nurse has been found guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the accidental death of a patient because of a medication error. She was also found ...

Medical errors are a serious threat to health systems worldwide. One recent study estimated that 400,000 hospitalized patients experience some sort of preventable harm in the United States each year, ...

A two-year-old boy arrives at the hospital with a virus and low potassium. His family expect monitoring, fluids, and a careful recovery. Instead, a lawsuit alleges that a single misplaced decimal ...

DENVER — A longtime Colorado anesthesiologist now faces manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide charges following the 2023 death of a patient during a routine eye surgery. A grand jury in ...

A new report from Griffith University has found that fragmented medication systems in Australian aged care are driving high rates of medication discrepancies and avoidable hospital admissions—costing ...

Katie Moronski died two days after moving into a group home run by Broadstep of an "acute intoxication due to Bupropion, Olanzapine, Fluoxetine and Lorazepam.” The state substantiated neglect against ...