Category Archives: Hospital

Blind Chinese activist leaves for US

By doris | Published: May 19, 2012

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com BEIJING (AP) — A blind Chinese activist was hurriedly taken from a hospital Saturday and boarded a plane that took off for the United States, closing a nearly monthlong diplomatic tussle that had tested U.S.-China relations. Chen Guangcheng, his wife and their two children were on United Airlines Flight 88, which [...]

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Once-conjoined twins Angelica and Angelina thrive six months after operation

By doris | Published: May 1, 2012

Full Story at CBSNews.com (CBS News) On November 1, 2011, when they were two years old, conjoined twins Angelica and Angelina Sabuco underwent separation surgery at Stanford University’s Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif. Conjoined twins undergo separation surgery in Calif.PICTURES: Conjoined twins: 40 amazing photos (GRAPHIC IMAGES)PICTURES: Formerly conjoined Sabuco twins: How [...]

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Debt Collector Is Faulted for Tough Tactics in Hospitals

By doris | Published: April 28, 2012

Full Story at NYTimes.com Hospital patients waiting in an emergency room or convalescing after surgery are being confronted by an unexpected visitor: a debt collector at bedside. This and other aggressive tactics by one of the nation’s largest collectors of medical debts, Accretive Health, were revealed on Tuesday by the Minnesota attorney general, raising concerns [...]

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Salmonella in sushi may have sickened 90

By doris | Published: April 3, 2012

Full Story at Vitals.msnbc.msn.com Government health officials are investigating a growing outbreak of salmonella food poisoning possibly tied to restaurant sushi that may have sickened at least 90 people in 19 states and the District of Columbia. The outbreak of salmonella Bareilly that may have sent seven people to the hospital is mostly clustered on [...]

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3-year-old girl recovering after swallowing 37 high-powered magnets

By doris | Published: March 5, 2012

Full Story at news.Yahoo.news.com A 3-year-old with curious eating habits is recovering after swallowing 37 high-powered magnets. KPTV reports that after she ate them, the magnets formed a dangerous ring inside Payton Bushnell’s digestive track, snapping her intestines together and ripping holes in both her small intestine and stomach. “They saw a circle had formed [...]

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Stories of survival emerge from tornado victims

By doris | Published: March 4, 2012

Full Story at  news.Yahoo.com EAST BERNSTADT, Ky. (AP) — The stories from tornado survivors across the South and Midwest were remarkable: schoolchildren took cover under desks, people hunkered down in a church basement or hid out in a bank vault. One family even piled on top of one another for protection. One of the most [...]

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Hospitals scramble to get scarce kids’ cancer drug

By doris | Published: February 18, 2012

Full Story at Vitals.msnbc.msn.com An Ohio drugmaker began releasing limited supplies of a crucial medication to treat childhood leukemia Thursday, sending hospital pharmacists facing life-threatening shortages scrambling for their share. Jerrod Milton, chief of pharmacy at Children’s Hospital of Colorado, was among those first in line as Ben Venue Laboratories began accepting new orders for [...]

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‘Crisis’: Supplies of life-saving drug used to treat children could run out in 2 weeks

By doris | Published: February 11, 2012

Full Story at msnbc.com How can a drug company run out of medicine because of quality concerns? They must have people checking everything that goes on in the company. Do you think it is like everything else it boils down to money. Cut back here cut back there and work the employees as much as [...]

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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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