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 ...

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 ...

Data disasters resulting from cyberattacks and ransomware dominate news headlines. However, the most consistent and costly ...

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

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, ...

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

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 ...

On June 16, in the third inning of a game against the Yankees at Fenway Park, Red Sox infielder Pablo Reyes chopped a grounder into the dirt in front of home plate. The baseball bounced toward third ...

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 ...