Sometimes the care that’s supposed to help winds up hurting instead. A study published in autumn 2013 suggests that errors by hospital staffers may be responsible for more than 400,000 deaths annually. To put this figure in perspective, this number of mistakes would make hospital errors the third-leading cause of death
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that in 2011, more than 600,000 children rode in vehicles without using child safety seats, booster seats, or seat belts at least some of the time. This is quite disturbing when you also consider that a third of the children
Approximately 40 percent of Americans who visit a doctor have the feeling that they’ve been misdiagnosed, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control. The Institute of Medicine, a branch of the National Academy of Sciences, additionally reports that more Americans die every year from medical malpractice, including
Wisely, the state of Illinois completely bans texting while driving, one of the most dangerous phenomena to emerge in our time. Additionally, Illinois forbids any cell phone use whatsoever for bus drivers, for those driving in a school zone or highway construction zone, and for all drivers under 19 years
When pharmaceutical companies rush a new drug to market and aggressively promote it by persuading consumers to request the drug from their doctors, many consumers are potentially put at risk. No one should be surprised that some pharmaceutical companies sometimes choose profit over consumer safety. When this happens, innocent people
According to the Illinois Department of Transportation, more than 4,900 pedestrians were injured in traffic mishaps in Illinois in 2011. Of those pedestrians, 135 were tragically killed. Vehicle crashes involving pedestrians frequently cause the most grim, crippling kinds of physical injuries. Nerve damage, paralysis, damaged or lost limbs, head and