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 ...

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 ...

Same-day administration of COVID-19 and influenza vaccines is not associated with increased risk for 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 ...

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 ...

A total of 21 Covid-19 vaccines have been approved for use worldwide, and almost five billion doses have been administered globally. While most jab recipients experience mild side effects, if any, a ...

Identification and measurement of adverse medical events is central to patient safety, forming a foundation for accountability, prioritizing problems to work on, generating ideas for safer care, and ...