Misdiagnoses in the U.S. lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths and major disabilities each year, according to a recent report from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Maryland. Each year, an ...

Network outages can often be traced to four error-prone activities: fault analysis and response, configuration changes, scaling and failover, and security policies. You might have been alarmed to read ...

Philip Ball dives into the challenges in developing quantum computing, and building up investments and users for the tech ...

There’s a strong consensus that tackling most useful problems with a quantum computer will require that the computer be capable of error correction. There is ...

Every year, up to 9,000 people die in the US as a result of a prescription medication error. That figure doesn’t include the hundreds of thousands of patients who ...

Until human fallibility is removed from decision-making, we will continue to make errors. A new JAMA Internal Medicine piece provides an update on, as former New York City Mayor Ed Koch would say, ...

Petitioners challenging patents in IPR procedures may use various strategies to improve the likelihood of avoiding discretionary denial. One ...

If you find an error on your student loan bill, call your loan servicer immediately and ask the servicer to fix it. If you're having trouble getting in touch due to ...

A "Make America Healthy Again"(MAHA) report submitted by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as representing the "gold-standard” of health science is anything but. That is the ...