Lucy Letby was found guilty of murdering seven babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital’s neonatal unit The spike in baby deaths at the hospital where Lucy Letby worked was not surprising, a leading statistician has said. Letby, 35, was convicted of ...

The family of a man who was issued with two death certificates after he died following a heart procedure says the hospital covered up what happened to him. Brian Holmes died at Castle Hill Hospital, near Hull, which the BBC last month revealed was at the ...

A tool called CHARTwatch may reduce the risk for unexpected death among hospitalized patients by serving as an early warning system for rapidly deteriorating health, according to a new study. The artificial intelligence (AI)–based system watches real ...

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — The death toll from a fire this week in a retirement facility in Bosnia has reached 13, after two more people died in the hospital, doctors said Friday. The fire broke out on Tuesday evening on the seventh floor of a ...

The rate of patient deaths in hospitals from a number of conditions increased significantly in the past five years across Pennsylvania, according to the latest hospital watchdog group performance report.

Harry S Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital in Columbia (Rudi Keller/Missouri Independent). In September 1992, as I performed one of the perfunctory duties of my job as assistant city editor of the Columbia Daily Tribune — watching the nightly local news ...

In-hospital deaths among patients hospitalized with bladder cancer in the United States increased from 2008 to 2021, suggesting more work needs to be done to prevent early death in this patient population. Deaths among hospitalized patients with bladder ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Michael L. Millenson writes about healthcare as a skeptical optimist. An artificial intelligence system that uses nurses' notes to detect patient deterioration increased intensive care ...