Zach Dunlap appeared on the "Today" show today - just four months after doctors declared him brain dead and prepared to remove his organs for transplant. Though his brain scan showed no activity and no blood flow, 21-year-old Dunlap responded to the scrape of a...
The Dallas Morning News reported late last night that a 13-year-old Rowlett boy was struck by a hit-and-run driver while riding his bicycle. The driver, a 16-year-old female fled the scene and was later arrested for charges of failure to stop and render aid. See...
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...
The fatality rate of passengers and drivers involved in motor vehicle accidents is at an all-time low, partly because of reinforced steal beams, numerous airbags and other safety features in newer cars. That said, those same safety features often increase the time it takes...
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 three separate accidents allegedly involving drunken drivers this weekend, the lives of innocent victims were taken. One, a 4-year-old Haltom City girl; another, an 18-year-old man; and the third, a 60-year old Dallas man. All avoidable had the drivers of the other vehicles...
Ellis Hurndall was born with brain damage and cerebral palsy, and later died of pneumonia. Now his parents are seeking legal action against the hospital for neglect during and immediately after an emergency Caesarean section. Amanda Hurndall's uterus ruptured, cutting of oxygen supply to...
Residents living along Interstate 635 in Dallas between Midway and Marsh were awakened by the sound of a loud crash at about 3:20 a.m. Wednesday, March 12. A small passenger vehicle ran under a tractor trailer truck on the Westbound side of the freeway,...
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...
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