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  • August 2008

    • TB Scare Unsettles Calif. Maternity Ward

      San Francisco Chronicle  |  Aug 27, 08 3:40 PM CDT

      TB Scare Unsettles Calif. Maternity Ward

      (Newser) - Nearly 1,000 babies born since March at a San Francisco hospital could have been exposed to tuberculosis, the Chronicle reports, by a maternity-ward worker with an active case. Kaiser Permanente says infection risk is very low, but testing and any treatment needed will be provided to 960 infants and their mothers, plus 115 staff members. The part-time staffer is no longer at the hospital. More »

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      babies  • hospitals  • tuberculosis

  • July 2008

    • Nurses Raise Alarm Against Attacks at Work

      New York Times  |  Jul 8, 08 6:39 AM CDT

      Nurses Raise Alarm Against Attacks at Work

      (Newser) - People may be at their most human when in pain, but often turn their anguish on their would-be healers—and now nurses are calling on workplaces and lawmakers to be more vigilant against physical attacks, the New York Times reports. “Nurses are just starting to get to the place where they’re saying, ‘I don’t have to put up with this,’” said an expert. More »

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      health care  • assault  • hospitals  • nurses

  • June 2008

    • Mennonites, Amish Battle Hospitals Over 'Inflated' Bills

      Wall Street Journal  |  Jun 28, 08 12:36 PM CDT

      Mennonites, Amish Battle Hospitals Over 'Inflated' Bills

      (Newser) - Jesse Martin shuns health insurance and government aid, although nine of his kids are seriously ill. Like other self-sufficient Pennsylvania Mennonites, and Amish too, Martin avails modern medicine for the fatal diseases that are ravaging their families—but is hard-up to pay the bills, which Martin claims are inflated. "I just want to pay bills that are reasonable and fair," he says. More »

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      medicine  • hospitals  • insurance  • Amish

  • May 2008

    • New Superbug Highlights Poor Hospital Hygiene

      MSNBC  |  May 2, 08 5:25 PM CDT

      New Superbug Highlights Poor Hospital Hygiene

      (Newser) - A deadly new superbug—beefed up by the over-prescription of antibiotics and spread by dirty hospitals and nursing homes—is raising concern in the medical community, MSNBC reports. The so-called C. diff is a mutated form of a benign bug typically transmitted in unsanitary medical facilities, especially bathrooms. Cases are on the rise, and the threat now rivals that of the headline-grabbing MRSA superbug, MSNBC notes. More »

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      hospitals  • infection  • antibiotics  • hygiene  • staph infections  • drug resistant

  • April 2008
  • March 2008
  • February 2008

    • Merck Will Pay $650M to End Discount Probes

      Wall Street Journal  |  Feb 7, 08 3:59 PM CST

      Merck Will Pay $650M to End Discount Probes

      (Newser) - Drug company Merck will dish out $650 million to resolve lawsuits and probes into marketing schemes, the Wall Street Journal reports. Central to the investigations is the company’s “nominal pricing,” which slashed some drug prices by 90% for hospitals but hid the discounts from Medicaid, even though federal law demands that drug companies offer the government program their lowest prices. More »

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      lawsuit  • drugs  • pharmaceutical companies  • hospitals  • Merck  • Vioxx  • probe  • Zocor

  • January 2008

    • ER Waiting Times Tripled Since 1997

      Reuters  |  Jan 16, 08 4:51 PM CST

      ER Waiting Times Tripled Since 1997

      (Newser) - With emergency room visits and hospital overcrowding on the rise, waiting times have grown dangerously long—36% longer than they were in 1997. A new study in medical journal Health Affairs cites especially troubling waits for heart attack victims, with 25% waiting at least 50 minutes to see a doctor in 2004. The average heart attack patient waited 8 minutes in 1997 and 20 minutes in 2004. More »

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      health care  • heart attack  • health study  • hospitals  • emergency room

    • Sarko Secretly Hospitalized After Divorce

      Daily Mail (UK)  |  Jan 9, 08 1:28 PM CST

      Sarko Secretly Hospitalized After Divorce

      (Newser) - In the latest Sarko plotline, a new book reveals that the French president was hospitalized the day after announcing his divorce from wife Cécilia—and that sick and depressed, he called her from the hospital and she rushed to his bedside. The Daily Mail reports that Nicolas Sarkozy was taken to to a military hospital on October 21, suffering from high fever and a throat abscess. More »

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      France  • Nicolas Sarkozy  • divorce  • hospitals  • Cecilia Sarkozy

    • Outbreak Has UK Wards Closing Doors

      Guardian (UK)  |  Jan 4, 08 3:25 PM CST

      Outbreak Has UK Wards Closing Doors

      (Newser) - Dozens of hospital wards across the UK have shut their doors in an effort to stop the spread of a vomiting virus that has already infected more than 2 million nationwide. With 100,000 new patients per week, many already-overflowing hospitals have been forced to cancel non-emergency operations and focus exclusively on the norovirus outbreak, the Guardian reports. More »

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      Great Britain  • public health  • outbreak  • hospitals  • virus  • norovirus

    • Study: Hospitals Too Slow to Shock Hearts

      Wall Street Journal  |  Jan 2, 08 7:42 PM CST

      Study: Hospitals Too Slow to Shock Hearts

      (Newser) - American hospitals are taking too long to revive the hearts of patients who suffer cardiac arrest, a study finds. Electric shock from a defibrillator can restart a stopped heart, but only if it is done quickly. The American Heart Association recommends that patients in cardiac arrest receive treatment within two minutes, but 30% wait longer, the Wall Street Journal reports. More »

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      health  • heart attack  • hospitals  • heart  • cardiac arrest  • defibrillator

    • New Tech Tracks Things Left Behind

      Chicago Tribune  |  Jan 2, 08 2:12 PM CST

      New Tech Tracks Things Left Behind

      (Newser) - Hospitals are turning to technology to cut down on incidents of doctors sewing up surgical patients with sponges and other items left inside, the Chicago Tribune reports. A bar-coding system to ensure what goes in comes back out is one solution; another involves tagging items with chips that allow them to be detected with a radio-frequency wand. More »

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      surgery  • hospitals  • Medicare  • malpractice

  • December 2007

    • Hospitals Seduced by 'Nuclear Arms Race' vs. Cancer

      New York Times  |  Dec 26, 07 2:29 PM CST

      Hospitals Seduced by 'Nuclear Arms Race' vs. Cancer

      (Newser) - More and more hospitals are using nuclear proton accelerators in the fight against cancer, with mixed results, reports the New York Times . Some experts say the massive devices, formerly only found in physics labs, are a vital next-generation tool. Others doubt their effectiveness and worry that hospitals are getting caught up in a kind of anti-cancer "arms race," with price tags running up to $100 million a pop for the 222-ton accelerators. More »

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      cancer  • medicine  • hospitals  • nuclear  • cancer treatment  • particle accelerator

  • November 2007

    • Hospital-Bred Bacteria Kills Brits

      Guardian (UK)  |  Nov 18, 07 4:34 PM CST

      Hospital-Bred Bacteria Kills Brits

      (Newser) - An untreatable strand of hospital-bred bacteria is killing hundreds of patients each year in the UK, the Observer reports. Pseudomona cases have risen 41% over the past five years, reaching 3,663 in 2006. Like MRSA, the bug is resistant to traditional cleaning agents and antibiotics, and contaminates patients through hospital water present in IVs, breathing devices, and catheters. More »

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      hospitals  • infection  • bacteria  • hygiene  • MRSA

    • Staph Strain Explodes Immune Cells

      Associated Press  |  Nov 12, 07 4:30 AM CST

      Staph Strain Explodes Immune Cells

      (Newser) - A key reason why a powerful strain of drug-resistant staph infections known as MRSA has proven so deadly is because it produces a compound that causes immune cells to explode, a new study in Nature concludes. The finding helps explain why MRSA, usually found in hospitals in patients with weakened immune systems, has also recently caused fatal infections in otherwise healthy people.  More »

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      vaccine  • hospitals  • immune system  • antibiotics  • MRSA  • staph infections  • drug resistant

  • October 2007

    • Vodka Was the Best Medicine

      BBC  |  Oct 11, 07 5:32 AM CDT

      Vodka Was the Best Medicine

      (Newser) - Doctors have long recommended a glass of red wine for a healthy heart; but vodka apparently can also do a body good. After running out of medicinal alcohol, doctors in an Australian hospital set up a vodka drip as an antidote to save the life of a poisoned Italian tourist, reports the BBC. More »

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      health  • Australia  • health care  • alcohol  • hospitals  • vodka

  • September 2007

    • Health Experts Don't Cotton to Dirty Lab Coats

      Guardian (UK)  |  Sep 17, 07 4:16 AM CDT

      Health Experts Don't Cotton to Dirty Lab Coats

      (Newser) - British doctors have been ordered to ditch their traditional lab coats because the National Health Service has determined that they're unwittingly spreading the superbug MRSA and other deadly hospital-acquired infections from patient to patient on the coats' cuffs. Doctors will now have to work with bare forearms and are banned from wearing watches and jewelry. More »

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      doctor  • hospitals  • infection  • hygiene  • MRSA  • superbug

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