According to the National Institutes of Health, about 5 million Americans receive blood transfusions each year. In a study reported today in the New England Journal of Medicine, those who received blood older than two weeks were 30 percent more likely to die than...
On a touching edition of 60 Minutes, actor Dennis Quaid and wife Kimberly shared the pain, fear and drama their family endured when their newborn twins, Thomas Boone and Zoe Grace, were given lethal amounts of a blood thinner as the result of a...
In the realm of life-saving techniques, a revolutionary approach to cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is capturing widespread attention. Emergency teams are shifting away from immediate defibrillation and, instead, endorsing a groundbreaking strategy involving an initial series of 200 chest compressions. Termed minimally interrupted cardiac resuscitation or...
Did your doctor get enough sleep last night? An Internet-based survey by the American College of Chest Physicians Sleep Institute indicates: probably not. Though 70 percent of the 581 physicians who responded that they need at least 7 hours of sleep for peak performance...
A Las Vegas health clinic may be responsible for spreading sickness and viruses to as many as 40,000 patients. In an effort to reduce costs, the clinic was found to be reusing syringes and medication vials for the past four years. Click here for...
According to Reuters Health Information, a recent study from Wake Forest University found that trauma patients treated in U.S. emergency rooms are exposed to radiation equivalent to an average of 1,005 chest X-rays each, enough to raise their risk of cancer. According to a report in...
Hall of Fame pitcher Jim Palmer was awarded $890,000 after a West Palm Beach jury found an ophthalmologist liable for damaging his vision. After a two-week trial, it took a jury about four hours to decide Palmer should receive the money for suffering, lost...
Adriane Springs, the wife of former Cowboys running back Ron Springs, has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit in state district court after her husband, Ron Springs, 51, fell into a coma in October during a surgical procedure to have a cyst removed from his...
According to the FDA and Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), about 2500 surgery patients leave the hospital with surgical devices such as clamps, and tweezers or pieces of surgical devices that unintentionally fell off during surgery. The CDRH receives about 1000 reports annually...
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