Aspirin similar to warfarin in stroke prevention

Warfarin and aspirin performed similarly well in preventing deaths and strokes in heart failure patients with normal heart rhythm. Read more »

Research: Clot-busting drugs safe after wakeup stroke

For wakeup stroke patients who received treatment, death rates and risk of bleeding inside the brain were similar to patients treated within a known 4.5 hours of stroke onset. Read more »

Norovirus most common cause of hospital outbreaks

Norovirus was responsible for 18.2% of all infection outbreaks and 65% of unit closures in U.S. hospitals during a two-year period, according to a new study. Read more »

Dismantling Nursing’s Catch-22

In the past 15 years, as a preponderance of evidence shows the harm to patients from medical errors and the need to shed light on how and why such errors occur, more hospitals are trying to shift from punishing individuals for honest mistakes to using error reports as evidence to change systems, making it harder for clinicians to make errors and easier to catch mistakes before they cause harm. Read more »