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 ...

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, ...

Spreadsheet blunders aren’t just frustrating personal inconveniences. They can have serious consequences. And in the last few years alone, there have been a myriad of spreadsheet horror stories. In ...

We’re nearing the end of the year, and there are typically a flood of announcements regarding quantum computers around now, in part because some companies want to live up to promised schedules. Most ...

Federal stimulus payments may have been critical to helping many taxpayers make it through the first year of COVID, but they also were a huge source of errors on tax returns. In the year to Dec. 31, ...

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 ...

Officials are still investigating but don’t believe there was an issue with the platform that sends the alerts.

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 ...

The Greenwave baseball team’s bid to win its first Class 3A state title in a decade disappeared in the desert. After winning the regional title over Truckee the previous week, Fallon dug itself into a ...