Staff at Florida’s state-run psychiatric hospitals repeatedly skipped or faked required safety checks in the years leading up ...

Every year, more than 200,000 people die in U.S. hospitals. The "Patient Safety Movement" is working to cut down on the number of preventable deaths in the country. Jennifer Nibarger was a wife, a ...

Premature birth, pneumonia and malaria among leading causes of death in under-fives worldwide, as UN experts warn aid cuts are slowing progress on survival rates ...

An estimated 4.9 million children died before their fifth birthday in 2024, including 2.3 million newborns, according to new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Deaths from so-called preventable causes often follow familiar policy lines. Tonpor Kasa/iStock via Getty Images Plus Each year in ...

More people are dying in the Dallas County jail now than in recent history, and many were likely preventable deaths that ...

TORONTO — Seven times over the past two winters, doctors, nurses and staff in the emergency department of a downtown Toronto ...

Public health expert calls for faster diagnosis, better nutrition support and stronger primary healthcare to cut early TB ...

Each year in the U.S., tens of thousands of deaths are categorized as “preventable” — meaning, in theory, they did not need to happen. A missed cancer screening, a fatal asthma attack or a death from ...