Among the prerequisite courses for medical school, the subject of statistics doesn't usually pop into one's mind. Statistics is the study of data collection, analysis, interpretation and presentation.

Columnist explains how to unspin and understand medical statistics. Jan. 3, 2010— -- Medical statistics are often misunderstood (perhaps up to 72.381672 percent of the time). Sometimes they're ...

“Doug Altman was an outstanding researcher who did an enormous amount over his career to improve the quality of medical research,” Andrew Carr, head of the Nuffield Department of Orthopedics, ...

“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.” There is much truth in this quotation of uncertain provenance. We see this phenomenon regularly in the medical profession. We see it ...

The obituary for Nathan Mantel, which appeared Thursday, incorrectly reported the name of the mother of his late son, Jesse Marc Mantel, who was a child from Mr. Mantel's marriage to his first wife, ...

Here are 10 things to know about how the public thinks about medical errors and patient safety, according to Harvard School of Public Health’s “The Public’s ...

6. Mean expected debt for first-year students starting DO-granting schools for the year 2014-2105, according to the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine's "2014-2015 Academic Year ...

THE Registrar General announces that his Advisory Committe on Medical Nomenclature and Statistics, the function of which is to consider from the medical point of view and to advise upon questions ...

Pop quiz: What percentage of bankruptcies in the United States are caused by medical bills? If you lived through the debate over passing Obamacare, you probably answered something like “half.” That ...