Category Archives: Hospital

Chantix smoking pill can raise heart risk, FDA warns

By doris | Published: June 16, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — Pfizer’s stop-smoking drug Chantix can lead to a small increase in cardiovascular problems such as heart attacks for patients who already have cardiovascular disease, U.S. drug regulators said on Thursday. The Food and Drug Administration is changing the label for Chantix after reviewing the results of a clinical trial. [...]

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Giffords released from Houston hospital

By doris | Published: June 15, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com HOUSTON — U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords reached a major milestone in her recovery Wednesday when she was discharged from a Houston hospital where she has spent the past five months recovering from a gunshot wound to the head. Doctors treating the Arizona congresswoman at TIRR Memorial Hermann said her cognitive abilities [...]

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Paralyzed toddler can now move his legs

By doris | Published: June 10, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com Izaiah Wallis lies on his back, machine tubes hooked to his small body, legs stretched out and toes curled. A white sheet of paper hangs on an aquarium-themed painted wall behind his bed, bearing a request written on his behalf by his grandmother. “If you love me, please don’t kiss me,” [...]

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‘Dr. Death’ Jack Kevorkian is dead at 83

By doris | Published: June 4, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the Michigan pathologist who put assisted suicide on the world’s medical ethics stage, died early Friday, according to a spokesman with Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan. He was 83. The assisted-suicide advocate had been hospitalized for pneumonia and a kidney-related ailment, his attorney had said. [...]

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7 tons of ground beef recalled due to possible E. coli

By doris | Published: March 10, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — A Kansas company has recalled more than 14,000 pounds of ground beef due to possible E. coli contamination, federal authorities have announced. The recalled meat, sold in large packages and distributed in numerous states, comes from Creekstone Farms Premium Beef of Arkansas City, Kansas. Some 14,158 pounds of beef, [...]

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Rodney King beating 20 years later: Can’t we all just get along?

By doris | Published: March 3, 2011

Full Story at thegrio.com This week marks the twentieth anniversary of the Rodney King beating, an incident which shone the spotlight on police brutality and race relations in Los Angeles and throughout the United States. On March 3, 1991, King — who was driving with two of his friends in his white Hyundai — was [...]

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Laughing gas returning as option for laboring moms

By doris | Published: February 14, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com CONCORD, N.H. – Labor pain is nothing to laugh at. Yet. The use of nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, during childbirth fell out of favor in the United States decades ago, and just two hospitals — one in San Francisco and one in Seattle — still offer it. But interest in [...]

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R. Sargent Shriver in critical condition in Md.

By doris | Published: January 17, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com BETHESDA, Md. – Former Peace Corps director and vice-presidential nominee R. Sargent Shriver was in critical condition Monday morning at a hospital in Maryland, a spokeswoman for the family said. The 95-year-old was admitted at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda on Sunday, the family said in an e-mail statement attributed to spokeswoman [...]

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Lucky! Woman has 1/11/11 baby at 11:11 a.m.

By doris | Published: January 12, 2011

Full Story at TODAY.msnbc.msn.com MERIDIAN, Idaho — Tyler Ashton Marx’s lucky number is going to be one, or 11, or maybe both. The son of Jared and Leslie Marx was born at 11:11 a.m. on Jan. 11, 2011, at St. Luke’s Meridian Medical Center in Meridian, Idaho. Jared Marx is serving in Iraq and watched [...]

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Cops: 3 boys missing after dad’s suicide bid

By doris | Published: November 29, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com MORENCI, Mich. — Authorities used planes and search dogs to scour areas along the Michigan-Ohio border Sunday, hoping to find three Michigan boys who were reported missing the same day their father tried to hang himself. Police in Morenci, about 75 miles southwest of Detroit, said they fear the boys are [...]

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N. Korea fires on S. Korea, killing 2 and injuring more than a dozen

By doris | Published: November 23, 2010

Full Story atCNN.com Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — North Korea fired artillery toward its tense western sea border with South Korea on Tuesday, killing two South Korean marines, the South’s Defense Ministry said. Fifteen other South Korean soldiers were wounded, five of them seriously, defense officials said. Three civilians were injured in the attack. At [...]

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Girl safe, arrest made in Ohio missing family case

By doris | Published: November 15, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com HOWARD, Ohio — A 13-year-old girl missing for days was found bound and gagged but alive in a basement Sunday, and authorities hoped a man charged with kidnapping her might lead them to her mother, brother and another woman who disappeared with her. Matthew J. Hoffman, 30, was arrested at his [...]

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Ambulance makes stop to allow sick 83-year-old to vote

By doris | Published: November 5, 2010

Full Story at blogs.CNN.com An 83-year-old man cast his ballot from a stretcher after persuading an ambulance crew taking him home from the hospital to detour to his local polling station. Retired doctor Charles Gorby said he has never missed an election since he returned from World War II. He was not about to miss [...]

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5-Year-Old Skips Birthday Presents To Help Others

By doris | Published: October 23, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com The Cincinnati Ronald McDonald House Charities received a donation Wednesday that somehow seemed bigger than all of the rest. A 5-year-old Oakley boy donated money collected at his birthday party to help families in need. Magnus Knudsen and his family have volunteered at the Ronald McDonald House and Magnus decided that [...]

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A new kind of emergency room opens

By doris | Published: September 26, 2010

Full Story at WWLP.com SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – On some days, people could have to sit in an emergency waiting room for up to six hours. But now Springfield has an alternative to all the waiting. It’s like fast-food for your health. Doctors Express is the first nationally branded urgent care center on 415 Cooley [...]

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Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon raises $58.9 million

By doris | Published: September 7, 2010

Full Story at TODAY.msnbc.msn.com LAS VEGAS — Despite the struggling economy, officials with the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon say contributions and pledges from this year’s Labor Day event totaled $58.9 million. While the amount was down from $60.5 million last year and a record $65 million in 2008, Lewis said he was pleased with the [...]

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Whooping Cough Makes Whopping Comeback

By doris | Published: August 29, 2010

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com Whooping cough sounds fantastically antiquated, up there with scurvy and St. Vitus Dance – diseases you didn’t think anyone in America got anymore. But whooping cough, named for the high-pitched “whoop” a person makes when inhaling, has made a comeback, with an incidence rate up by a whopping 2,300 percent since [...]

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J&J unit recalls 93,000 hip implant systems

By doris | Published: August 27, 2010

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Johnson and Johnson unit DePuy Orthopaedics, already in hot water with government regulators, issued a global recall Thursday of two hip aid systems after finding that more people than expected suffered pain which required additional surgery. DePuy, which has sold about 93,000 units of its ASR XL [...]

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Toddler walks two blocks to reach medical help for her father

By doris | Published: August 23, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Alesaundra Tafoya’s parents have been teaching their daughter about safety in their Northern California community, pointing out such safe havens as fire stations if she ever finds herself in trouble. They weren’t, however, expecting 3-year-old Alesaundra to call upon those lessons when one of them needed help — but [...]

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Man falls 25 feet from ride line at Disney park

By doris | Published: August 20, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — A 20-year-old man waiting in line for a ride at Disney’s California Adventure Park fell 25 to 30 feet Wednesday night, Anaheim police spokesman Sgt. Rick Martinez said Thursday. The man was in the building housing the queue for the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, when he put his [...]

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