Minimizing diagnostic error in medicine is an essential component of safe patient care, a theme to be explored by the physicians, medical scientists, safety officers, risk managers, and educators who will convene at the 2nd Annual Diagnostic Error in Medicine Conference, to be held at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel on October 2122 in Los Angeles. [...]

Mental Illness Awareness Week (MIAW) is Oct. 410, 2009 and as part of its observance, the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is calling attention to a program now airing on PBS, Minds on the Edge Facing Mental Illness.
Observed annually the first full week in October, Congress established MIAW as [...]

Treating pregnant women for mild gestational diabetes resulted in fewer cesarean sections and other serious birthing problems associated with larger than average babies, according to a study conducted in part at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
This study is important because it clearly indicates the value to mothers and their [...]

People with dementia, carers and doctors are not getting the support they need to deal with the ethical issues they facea new report from the Nuffield Council on Bioethics reveals.
The authors call for better training for doctors, nurses and professional carers and emphasise the responsibility we all have to support people with dementia to [...]

Less than half of men and women in Ontario who may be suffering from depression see a doctor to treat their potentially debilitating condition, according to a new womens health study by researchers at St. Michaels Hospital and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES). Whats more, many hospitalized for severe depression fail to see [...]