Patient Safety & Quality

15+ min ago   (465+ words) Sepsis, an acute inflammation triggered by infection, is a leading cause of childhood mortality, claiming roughly 3 million children under the age of five annually. Efferon, a startup selected as one of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s Startup Battlefield 200, is on a mission…...

3+ hour, 57+ min ago   (248+ words) Published 11 Oct.2026 20:18(KST) Updated 11 Oct.2026 21:08(KST) A case has been reported in which a man who reheated and ate a rice dish cooked the previous day developed multiple organ failure, including acute liver failure and kidney injury, and doctors had…...

3+ hour, 58+ min ago   (593+ words) A patient fell out along with a stretcher from an ambulance being driven by the Yashwantrao Chavan Memorial Hospital (YCMH) in Pimpri-Chinchwad, Maharashtra, on Sunday, October 11. A video of the incident has come to light on the Internet, with people…...

9+ hour, 38+ min ago   (354+ words) Oct 11, 2026 08:37 67 Young doctors are renewing their protests with a national demonstration in Sofia on October 20. The protest will start at 6:00 PM in front of the Ministry of Health, after which the participants will march to the National Assembly. The action…...

8+ hour, 15+ min ago   (292+ words) Bengaluru: Italy's Newron Pharmaceuticals said on Thursday the US FDA had identified four deaths among patients treated with its experimental schizophrenia drug in feedback following the agency's earlier decision to place a clinical hold on the treatment's trial in the…...

6+ hour, 31+ min ago   (614+ words) As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly capable of assisting with health care tasks, a new study by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has found that adding a brief safety reminder reduced potentially harmful choices by…...

6+ hour, 59+ min ago   (386+ words) Pimpri-Chinchwad: An unidentified patient fell from a moving ambulance operated by Yashwantrao Chavan Memorial Hospital (YCMH) in Pimpri on Sunday, raising serious questions about patient safety during medical transport. The incident took place on the hospital premises and was captured…...

1+ week, 20+ hour ago   (679+ words) Jamaica doctors in public hospitals stayed off the job for 24 hours from Friday, leaving senior staff to run emergency care. Normal operations resumed at 8 a.m. on Saturday 3 October, when rostered doctors returned, IRIE FM reported. The dispute behind the action is…...

11+ hour, 17+ min ago   (291+ words) A serious allegation of medical negligence has surfaced at the newly opened Bongaigaon Medical College and Hospital, where a critically ill patient with B positive blood group was allegedly given O positive blood. The incident comes just a week after…...

14+ hour, 23+ min ago   (446+ words) Brief safety reminders reduced potentially harmful choices by 19 of 20 AI models tested in a Mount Sinai-led study. Across the experiment, the rate fell from 16.6% without the intervention to 10.1% with it, a reduction of 6.5 percentage points. Mount Sinai publicized the research…...