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  • July 2008

    • Family Wants $25M Over Hospital Death

      newser  |  CNN  |  Jul 9, 08 11:03 AM CDT

      Family Wants $25M Over Hospital Death

      The family of the woman who died on the waiting-room floor in a Brooklyn hospital plans to sue for $25 million, CNN reports. Esmin Green’s relatives are also pushing for criminal charges against the hospital staff, who they say ignored her and falsified records to say she was up and about when she was actually lying ignored on the floor, dying. More »

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      lawsuit  • New York City  • hospital  • Brooklyn  • patient  • negligence  • psychiatric treatment center  • Esmin Green

    • Woman Dies, Ignored, on Waiting Room Floor

      newser  |  CNN  |  Jul 2, 08 7:22 AM CDT

      Woman Dies, Ignored, on Waiting Room Floor

      Recently uncovered surveillance footage shows a woman collapsing in a Brooklyn psychiatric hospital, then lying on the floor for more than an hour while hospital staff ignored her. Esmin Green, 49, had been waiting for treatment for almost 24 hours when she collapsed at 5:32am and lay convulsing on the floor. She stopped moving at 6:07am, and was found dead at 6:35. More »

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      New York City  • hospital  • Brooklyn  • patient  • negligence  • psychiatric treatment center

  • April 2008

    • LASIK Patients Urge Better Oversight

      newser  |  Reuters  |  Apr 25, 08 2:52 PM CDT

      LASIK Patients Urge Better Oversight

      Patients experiencing painful and sometimes debilitating side-effects of LASIK eye surgery urged regulators today to keep a closer watch on the procedure, Reuters reports. A surgeon speaking to an FDA panel—soliticing advice for possible warnings after receiving 140 complaints—did not discount the allegations but said “the great majority of our patients see as well or better” after the procedure. More »

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      FDA  • suicide  • depression  • patient  • side effects  • Lasik eye surgery  • opthalmologists

  • August 2007

    • Americans Double Use of Pain Meds

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Aug 20, 07 9:40 AM CDT

      Americans Double Use of Pain Meds

      Retail sales of five major painkillers rose a whopping 90% from 1997 to 2005, a new AP analysis of DEA statistics shows. The increase is driven by Oxycodone, the chemical used in OxyContin, which has seen sales increase nearly 600%. Causes include an aging population, huge new drug marketing campaigns, and an increased willingness by doctors to prescribe the meds. More »

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      medicine  • Americans  • painkiller  • patient  • OxyContin

    • Pavarotti Extends Stay in Hospital

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Aug 14, 07 11:22 PM CDT

      Pavarotti Extends Stay in Hospital

      Tenor Luciano Pavarotti has decided to extend his stay in the hospital a few more days, his wife said, saying the star feels “more tranquil” there and denying rumors that he had pneumonia. The opera luminary, who had surgery for pancreatic cancer in 2006, was hospitalized last week when a checkup revealed he had a fever. Doctors cleared him to go home yesterday. More »

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      cancer  • hospital  • opera  • patient  • tenor  • Luciano Pavarotti

    • Maybe Your Ailments Are All in Your Web

      newser  |  Ars Technica  |  Aug 3, 07 7:50 AM CDT

      Maybe Your Ailments Are All in Your Web

      More and more people are turning to websites to complement doctor visits, Ars Technica reports. About three-quarters of adults seek out medical info online, a fraction that's held for nearly a decade even as the number of wired adults has soared. That translates to 160 million of what Harris Interactive calls "cyberchondriacs." More »

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      Internet  • health  • medicine  • doctor  • patient

  • July 2007
  • June 2007

    • UK to Patients Who Smoke: Put That Out

      newser  |  Daily Mail (UK)  |  Jun 4, 07 3:49 PM CDT

      UK to Patients Who Smoke: Put That Out

      Smokers in Britain must kick the habit for at least four weeks before undergoing routine surgery or the National Health Service will deny them the operations, the Daily Mail reports. Doctors will use blood tests to enforce the new policy, which could affect up to 500,000 smokers awaiting procedures for non-life-threatening conditions each year. More »

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      health  • Great Britain  • medicine  • England  • smoking  • surgery  • smoking ban  • patient

  • April 2007

    • States Rewrite Organ-Donation Laws

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Apr 4, 07 11:26 AM CDT

      States Rewrite Organ-Donation Laws

      Doctors will be able to take organs from potential donors in more sticky situations, under revisions to state laws on the boards in more than 24 states. Model legislation that's already passed in four states clarifies how to handle ethically complex decisions, helping to alleviate the chronic shortage of kidneys and other organs, the Washington Post reports. More »

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      health  • law  • organ donor  • patient  • state governments  • will  • organ harvesting

  • March 2007

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