Adverse events affect more than a third (38%) of adults undergoing surgery, finds a study of admissions to 11 hospitals in the US state of Massachusetts, published by The BMJ. Of the 1,009 admissions ...

Anthony Fauci, the public face of the federal government's response to COVID, has long incurred accusations of dishonesty.

Association moves to close longstanding gaps in patient-safety tracking infrastructure and federal-state information sharing ...

Health care workers face adverse events daily. These events include secondary trauma, occupational trauma, unexpected death or injury, moral injury, medical error and ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is now providing real-time, daily publication updates on adverse event data from its reporting system. In an effort to modernize and provide transparency on ...

Active surveillance systems screen claims data and notify healthcare providers who then determine if follow-up or adverse event reporting is required. These systems can scan for known adverse events ...

As hundreds of thousands of Americans test positive for COVID-19 each day, public health officials are encouraging booster shots to prevent the spread of the highly contagious omicron variant. But ...

Fat loss is an often-reported complication following radiofrequency microneedling, two new studies show. But experts are pushing back on both the findings and a recent FDA warning.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is now providing real-time, daily publication updates on adverse event data from its reporting system. In an effort to modernize and provide transparency on ...

Reports of these events, “until MoCRA, were only voluntary. So even if a serious adverse event was found, it was submitted to the agency on a voluntary basis,” Dr. Linda Katz, director of the FDA’s ...