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U.S. Medical Negligence Death Rate Doubles: Bloody Knights of the Hospitaliers

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U.S. Medical Negligence Death Rate Doubles

Preventable medical mistakes and infections are responsible for about 200,000 deaths in the U.S. each year, according to an investigation by the Hearst media corporation. The report comes 10 years after the Institute of Medicine’s “To Err Is Human” analysis, which found that 44,000 to 98,000 people were dying annually due to these errors and called for the medical community and government to cut that number in half by 2004. read more

How President Yar’Adua of Nigeria Saved Ghana’s Democracy: An African Tale of Political Manoeuvering – News Report

By Collins Edomaruse

Six months after the last presidential election in Ghana, the country’s former leader, Jerry Rawlings, has credited the success of the poll to President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s persistent pressure on former president John Kuffuor of Ghana to allow the electoral commission declare the authentic winner. read more