Patient Safety & Quality

1+ hour, 52+ min ago   (168+ words) Mustafa Ahmed, MD, discusses early results from the Gator SCALES-WHF trial, investigating furosemide as an alternative to in-hospital IV diuresis. Early data from the Gator SCALES-WHF trial have demonstrated at-home subcutaneous furosemide’s efficacy as an alternative to hospital-based IV diuresis…...

10+ hour, 36+ min ago   (1256+ words) Questions about hospital emergency procedures and patient rights have emerged in three cases in Cavite, Iloilo, and Palawan involving an injured elderly man, a delivery rider who later died, and a father who claimed he was not allowed to leave…...

6+ hour, 6+ min ago   (225+ words) A man was seriously injured after reportedly opening a lift door and jumping into the empty shaft area at Purulia Medical College’s Sadar campus in West Bengal on Sunday, prompting police investigation and renewed questions about safety controls around hospital…...

9+ hour, 43+ min ago   (359+ words) Sepsis, an acute inflammation triggered by infection, is a leading cause of childhood mortality, claiming roughly 3 million children under the age of five annually. Efferon, a startup selected as one of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026's Startup Battlefield 200, is on a mission…...

8+ hour, 12+ min ago   (213+ words) Targeted Oncology In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Krish Patel, MD, executive director of hematologic cancer research at Sarah Cannon Research Institute, discusses the benefits of clinical trial–based care and what community oncologists should know when considering trials for…...

5+ hour, 32+ min ago   (799+ words) A two-hit mouse model reveals that sepsis leaves macrophages functionally silenced, blunting lung cytokine and chemokine responses to secondary Pseudomonas pneumonia, though rice-derived arabinoxylan fibers partially restored their reactivity in preliminary ex vivo tests....

13+ hour, 25+ min ago   (248+ words) Published 11 Oct.2026 20:18(KST) Updated 11 Oct.2026 21:08(KST) A case has been reported in which a man who reheated and ate a rice dish cooked the previous day developed multiple organ failure, including acute liver failure and kidney injury, and doctors had…...

13+ hour, 26+ min ago   (593+ words) A patient fell out along with a stretcher from an ambulance being driven by the Yashwantrao Chavan Memorial Hospital (YCMH) in Pimpri-Chinchwad, Maharashtra, on Sunday, October 11. A video of the incident has come to light on the Internet, with people…...

9+ hour, 23+ min ago   (525+ words) A systematic review of 29 studies covering 3,383 Pakistani nurses finds that while 67 percent have adequate infection prevention knowledge and 76 percent hold favorable attitudes, only 56 percent demonstrate good practices, exposing a persistent knowledge-practice gap....

19+ hour, 6+ min ago   (354+ words) Oct 11, 2026 08:37 67 Young doctors are renewing their protests with a national demonstration in Sofia on October 20. The protest will start at 6:00 PM in front of the Ministry of Health, after which the participants will march to the National Assembly. The action…...