Die of Heart Disease and 574,000 byte of cancer died of cancer. What isnt known and what the function of put the function of the hearing is about and i hope to do my best with the help of fellow senators and members of the panel is to start focusing attention on the third leading cause of death in the United States of america. And that will come as a great surprise to most people and the third leading cause of death in this country has to do with preventable medical errors in hospitals. A recent article published in the journal of Patient Safety estimates that as many as 440,000 people a year may die from preventable medical errors in hospitals. 440,000. That is more than a thousand eight each day. They die from preventable mistakes outside of the hospitals such as misdiagnosis or injury and medication. Nearly 15 years ago the institute of medicine published a report. It is a well publicized report entitled to air is human which found that as many as 98,000 people die in hospitals each
I think in a sense the discussion we are going to have today, people all over this country. In a sense that many of us included myself, have seen folks go into a hospital for one problem or another and end coming out different than it went in and sometimes dying as a result. What is widely known is the major cause of death in the United States today is the heart disease, a serious problem. The second leading cause of death is cancer. According to the 2010 cdc report, 597,000 people died of heart disease, 574,000 died of cancer. What is not widely known and in fact what the function of this hearing is about and i hope to do my best with the help of my fellow senators and members of the panel is to start focusing attention on the third leading cause of death in the United States of america and that will come as the great surprise and the third leading cause of death in this country has to do with preventable medical errors in hospitals. Recent article published in the journal of Patient
Then we get to North Carolina where over 700 people have been arrested in the past 10 weeks in a weekly protest called moral monday. It means using bills to suggest their prolife when in fact they are prohypocrisy. We will look at moral mondays and a move by North Carolina lawmakers to shut down abortion clinics by adding antichoice restrictions to a bill on Motorcycle Safety. Prisonersover 12,000 in california enter their fifth day on Hunger Strike to protest solitary confinement, we will speak with a reporter who survived solitary in iran, shane bauer, author of, solitary in iran nearly broke me. Then i went inside americas prisons. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden is reportedly set to meet today with International Human Rights Groups in the transit area of a moscow airport or he has been holed up for nearly three weeks. He has received asylum offe
Then we get to North Carolina where over 700 people have been arrested in the past 10 weeks in a weekly protest called moral monday. It means using bills to suggest their prolife when in fact they are prohypocrisy. We will look at moral mondays and a move by North Carolina lawmakers to shut down abortion clinics by adding antichoice restrictions to a bill on Motorcycle Safety. Prisonersover 12,000 in california enter their fifth day on Hunger Strike to protest solitary confinement, we will speak with a reporter who survived solitary in iran, shane bauer, author of, solitary in iran nearly broke me. Then i went inside americas prisons. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden is reportedly set to meet today with International Human Rights Groups in the transit area of a moscow airport or he has been holed up for nearly three weeks. He has received asylum offe
A Texas senate committee heard from experts on how to best tackle the growing use of artificial intelligence and deepfake technology in creating child pornography. For some, it raised constitutional issues.