Long Island Woman Rushed to Hospital in Hazmat Suit to Prevent Spread of Itchy Bugs. A Long Island woman was put in a quarantined hospital room Thursday night after emergency workers came to her home and found her skin crawling with nearly invisible paras
Garon died a week after his doctor told him a University of Washington Medical Center committee had again denied him a spot on the liver transplant list because of his use of marijuana, although it was authorized under Washington state law.
A Staten Island woman being rushed from her doctor's office to the hospital after a heart attack was hounded for a $5 insurance co-pay while lying on a gurney and breathing through tubes.
This weekend Britney Spears is being detained in a psychiatric hospital. Her very public breakdown reminded Emma Forrest of her own slide into mania and suicidal despair - and how her parents helped achieve her ultimate recovery.
LONDON - The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals Trust has come under the scanner after staff wrongly recorded the blood group of a kidney transplant patient. The error was noticed after the patient had received a new kidney of the wrong b
Please keep Leonie P in your prayers and light a candle for her from the link to the share. She remains in hospital here in Brisbane Australia after a stroke in early December. She can answer messages as she contacted me last night here on Care2.
A review of the notes of 1,006 patients found between eight and 10 per cent were harmed because of the care they received and up to around half of the incidents could have been prevented. Patients undergoing surgery were most likely to be harmed.
For Jean Rommes, the crisis came five years ago, on a Monday morning when she had planned to go to work but wound up in the hospital, barely able to breathe. She was 59, the president of a small company in Iowa. Although she had quit smoking a decade
"Someone handed me a rape kit and said to follow the directions on the box," she said. "I thought there had to be a better way to take care of victims, so I asked around and started researching."
SANE - sexual assault nurse examiner
Health officials in Lawrenceville, Georgia have arrested and jailed Francisco Santos, a teenager who tried to walk out of a hospital and go home after being diagnosed with TB (tuberculosis). Instead of allowing him to leave the hospital, health.......
Alerted to the "disturbance" in the lobby, police stepped in -- by running Rodriguez's record. They found an outstanding warrant and prepared to take her to jail. She died before she could be put into a squad car. She died without help from hospital staff
A little-known but potentially deadly parasite from Latin America has become one of the latest threats to the blood and organ supplies in the United States, especially in Los Angeles, where many donors have traveled to affected countries...
