It has been rumored that "Dr . Death" turned off a woman's life support ventilator, in an Australian hospital, to operate on another patient.

Due to the number of unconfirmed medical malpractice claims, the government-sanctioned inquiry in the Australian state of Queensland is examining the deaths of 87 patients treated by Indian-trained Dr Jayant Patel

Three transplant patients died in mid-April, weeks after undergoing the procedures. One a double lung recipient, the other a liver recipient, and the third a kidney transplant patient.

A fourth patient, who also received a kidney transplant, became ill but is now recovering

Doctors in the south Indian city, Hyderabad claimed that they had carried out a multiple-bypass beating-heart surgery on Friday on a patient as he kept on listening to music, reported The Times of India.

The two-and-a-half-hour operation took place on Friday in Care Hospital in Hyderabad. Chief cardiac surgeon Dr Prateek Bhatnagar, who led the team of doctors, claimed it was the first 'fully-awake' coronary arterial bypass operation performed in India

A report released today by The Journal of the American Medical Association, found that as many as 98,000 Americans die each year because of medical errors.

The study found that the death rate has not changed much since 2000, when the Institute of Medicine released an initial report stating that thousands die each year due to medical mistakes

Karen Scherr has been the top student at Kingwood High School for the past four years, but has been denied the title of valedictorian at her graduation this year.

The school requires valedictorian's to be enrolled in classes by the 20th day of their junior year. Scherr did not meet this deadline because she was in a facility undergoing treatment for anorexia