New Warning About Hospitals and Preventable Blood Clots
One out of three U.S. hospital patients is at risk for dangerous blood clots, but far fewer actually receive treatments to prevent the potentially life-threatening condition, according to a study released this week.
“Blood clots are the most common preventable cause of death in hospital patients. It is [...]
Louisiana attorney general investigating patient murders at Memorial Medical Center during Huricane Katrina
Three days after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans, staff members at the city’s Memorial Medical Center had repeated discussions about euthanizing patients they thought might not survive the ordeal, according to a doctor and nurse manager who were in the hospital at the [...]
Surgical Tools at Two Hospitals Washed with Hydraulic Fluid
RALEIGH – Over two months last year, 3,800 patients at two hospitals run by Duke University Health System were exposed to surgery with instruments that were washed in hydraulic fluid instead of detergent, hospital regulators say.
Duke Health Raleigh (formerly Raleigh Community) and Durham Regional hospitals put [...]
Pediatric Acupuncture in Hospitals
There is a new study involving 250 children receiving acupuncture in a hospital setting for difficult to treat conditions.
NewsCenter 5’s Heather Unruh said that Children’s Hospital in Boston is successfully using acupuncture on some of the more difficult-to-treat cases.
Emily Castelic’s Hodgkin’s lymphoma is in remission, but her sharp pain is not. [...]
Doctors with Bisbee’s Copper Queen Community Hospital have stopped delivering babies, a change brought on largely by the doctors’ skyrocketing malpractice premiums. Starting today, women from Bisbee will have to drive 35 miles to Sierra Vista Regional Health Center to give birth in a hospital. Copper Queen will perform emergency deliveries for women in trouble, [...]
