These errors cause 250,000 deaths per year, falling behind cancer and the number one killer, heart disease, according to Johns Hopkins' researchers Martin Makary and Michael Daniel in the report ...

Medical errors remain one of the leading causes of death worldwide, rivaling heart disease and cancer. Yet while medicine has ...

The CDC lists chronic respiratory diseases as the No. 3 cause of death in the U.S., behind heart disease and cancer, but researchers from Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins beg to differ. They analyzed ...

The supposed fact that medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States has become a meme, spreading virally through society from the scientific literature to the evening news.

Medical errors, including wrong diagnoses, botched surgeries and medication mistakes, are the third leading cause of death in the United States, a new study suggests. Scientists from Johns Hopkins ...

While accurate data on deaths associated with medical errors is lacking, it is estimated that between 210,000 and 400,000 people in the U.S. die every year because of medical errors, making medical ...

The CDC does not list “medical error” as a cause of death in its mortality statistics. The CDC does not list “medical error” as a cause of death in its annual mortality statistics. But according to ...

Medical error is the third leading cause of death in the US after heart disease and cancer, say experts in The BMJ today. Martin Makary and Michael Daniel at Johns ...

Cause of Death: Medical Error? While medical error is not a new topic, it is still a difficult one to address, in large part owing to the lack of both a succinct ...