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A study to be published in the December 2 issue of JAMA says that an analysis of quality of cardiac care following the public release of data on measures of care at hospitals in Ontar... Read more

Drug-resistant superbugs are rising uncontrollably in Europe. Experts are calling for prudent use of antibiotics and for control of healthcare-associated infections.

In a survey cond... Read more

The Commonwealth Fund report has said that the NHS in Britain is better that health services in other countries including America. The findings are a result of a poll among more than 1,000 f... Read more

Researchers at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit are reporting the emergence of a new, deadlier strain of MRSA that five times more deadly than existing strains.

Carol Moore, Pharm... Read more

A study in the October 28 issue of JAMA says that although nearly 80 percent of the U.S. population lives within 2 hours by ground or helicopter transport to a verified burn center, t... Read more

The vast majority of doctors are satisfied with the spiritual services provided, a national survey of physicians'' experience with hospital chaplains has found.

Physicians in t... Read more

In what is some astonishing data, it has emerged that patients who die in the hospital in the United States are almost five times as likely to have spent part of their last hospital stay in ... Read more

Doctors could well be lagging behind nurses in maintaining their hand hygiene, Australian research shows.

Preventing spread of infection depends on hand washing, but according to the... Read more

Junior doctor shortage has forced some revamping of the existing arrangements for adult brain surgery in Wales.

In South Wales the two major hospitals, the University Hospital of Wal... Read more

There is a wide gap in quality between the nation's best hospitals and all others, according to the largest annual study of patient outcomes at each of the nation's 5,000 nonfederal hospital... Read more