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The two-hour drive is done, but Hannah and Jack Hurst leave the Honda's engine running.
Charlie Taylor was loading a four-wheeler into the back of his pickup truck last spring when the heavy rig jumped a ramp, overturned and landed on Taylor’s chest.
ANAHEIM, Calif. - When Bob Goodrich’s longtime doctor started providing premium care only to patients who paid a $1,600 annual fee, the 63-year-old felt he had no choice but to write a check.
NEW YORK - In America, you get what you pay for. Those who pay more get better service. That's the way it is in restaurants, and in health care, too.
The memory still bothers Ken Keller: A panicked ambulance crew had a critically ill patient, but the man weighed more than 1,000 pounds and could not fit inside the vehicle. And the stretcher wasn't sturdy enough to hold him.
The medical drama "House" is having a real impact on health care, say doctors who report a rise in patients who’ve self-diagnosed a condition they saw on the TV show — and expect costly tests.
Experts are concerned about the impact the swine flu epidemic will have on people with heart disease, with some doctors warning it could be a deadly mix leading to a worldwide spike in heart patient fatalities.
As Victor Fabry napped in his hospital bed, a quiet symphony filled his room. The steady pulse of a cardiac monitor marked the progress of his mending heart. Over that beat, the swaying strains of a Brazilian guitarist pumped nearly nonstop from a CD player on the shelf.
A sick child in the Gaza Strip died on Sunday after Palestinian infighting and a blockade on the territory prevented his parents from seeking medical treatment abroad for their 10-year-old cancer-stricken son.
In hindsight, maybe Jesse Ashlock shouldn’t have walked out of the New York emergency room last summer, only a couple hours after being knocked unconscious in a Brooklyn bicycle crash.
Hundreds of Palestinian patients have been trapped in the Gaza Strip, unable to travel abroad for crucial treatment for cancer and other diseases, because of political infighting between Gaza's militant Hamas rulers and their Palestinian rivals.
Worried patients suffering fever, cough, sniffles and other symptoms crowded emergency departments across the United States over the weekend as word of a widening swine flu outbreak spread, doctors on the frontlines reported.
It sounds like the stuff of teenage nightmares: super strong, freakishly clever, mutant acne.
Just nine people accounted for nearly 2,700 of the emergency room visits in the Austin area during the past six years at a cost of $3 million to taxpayers and others, according to a report. The patients went to hospital emergency rooms 2,678 times from 2003 through 2008, said the report from the nonprofit Integrated Care Collaboration, a group of health care providers who care for low-income and uninsured patients.
When Kate Probst learned she needed surgery to remove a brain tumor, she launched a nationwide search for the best medical care. Probst, an environmental policy analyst who lives in McLean, Va., consulted doctors in nearby Washington, D.C. She telephoned specialists at Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina and sent her records to experts at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix. Ultimately, Probst chose the second of two neurosurgeons she interviewed at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Her operation to remove the benign tumor was a success.
European heart patients are taking more medication than ever before to lower their blood pressure and cholesterol, but bad habits such as overeating and smoking are undermining the drugs, a new study says. Despite big increases in heart patients on medication, most still have high blood pressure and nearly half have high cholesterol.
The anonymous comment on the Web site RateMDs.com was unsparing: "Very unhelpful, arrogant," it said of a doctor. "Did not listen and cut me off, seemed much too happy to have power (and abuse it!) over suffering people."
A centuries-old expression about the product of the vine assures us that “in wine there is truth.”
Watching TV news could make you think America faces a crisis of irritable bowels, malfunctioning genitals and insomnia. The pharmaceutical industry spends billions of dollars each year to make sure you know about these, and other, conditions.
Though reader Cortney Jokiel is nearly 60 years younger than I am, we have something in common: nursing school.
Three days a week, Philip Audette sat in a cushy white chair at the St. Jude Rehab Center, a needle pumping HIV drugs into his arm. He talked and laughed with a dozen other patients, all in good health, all receiving drugs they didn't need. All for the money.
Medicare officials tried on Monday to quell growing worry by the elderly that they could lose access to lifesaving oxygen supplies with the start of the new year.
Until last year, Alan Felzer was an energetic engineering professor who took the stairs to his classes two steps at a time. Now the 64-year-old grandfather sits strapped to a wheelchair, able to move little but his left hand, his voice a near-whisper.
A virulent, drug-resistant gut infection that causes potentially deadly diarrhea, especially among the old and sick, is up to 20 times more common than previously thought, a large survey of U.S. hospitals and health care centers finds.
Heart patients should be regularly screened for signs of depression, the American Heart Association recommended Monday.
Colorado-based Spectranetics Corporation to Pay $5 Million to Resolve Allegations Relating to Its Medical DevicesSpectranetics Corporation, a medical device manufacturer, has agreed to pay the United States $4.9 million in civil damages plus a $100,000 forfeiture to resolve claims against the company, the Justice Department announced today.
iPhone Application Tracks Radiation Exposure, RiskEducating the public, residents and referring physicians about radiation exposure and associated risk took a step forward with the creation of the new iPhone application, Radiation Passport.
'Intensive supervision' for ambulance driver after sex assaultsA former ambulance driver who indecently assaulted vulnerable patients in the back of his ambulance understands the pain he put them through but isn't sure why he did it.
Feds Issue New Medical Marijuana PolicyFederal drug agents won't pursue pot-smoking patients or their sanctioned suppliers in states that allow medical marijuana, under new legal guidelines to be issued Monday by the Obama administration. Two Justice Department officials described the new policy to The Associated Pre …
Nearly Half of People Hospitalized With H1N1 Were Previously HealthyWednesday, October 14, 2009 The largest U.S. analysis of hospitalized adult swine flu patients has found almost half were healthy people who did not have asthma or any other chronic illnesses before they got sick.
Study Finds Brain Waves Surge Moments Before Death: Support for "Out of Body" Experiences?"A study of seven terminally ill patients found identical surges in brain activity moments before death."
Soldier dies after receiving smoker's lungs in transplantA leading UK hospital has defended its practice of using organs donated by smokers after the death of a soldier who received the cancerous lungs of a heavy smoker.
Doctor under investigation after several patients die of drug overdosesA doctor with an office in Orange City is under investigation by local, state and federal drug enforcement agents after several of his patients died of drug overdoses, a Volusia County sheriff's spokesman said Thursday.
Trial in Unnecessary Operations Case: Physician Accused of Putting Greed over LivesThe trial of a German doctor blamed in the deaths of seven patients and accused of battery in 60 other cases begins on Thursday.
When To Call For Test ResultsYou go in for some tests—maybe you have some blood drawn—but never hear back from your doctor. Don't assume that means everything is okay. Believe it or not, your test results may have fallen through the cracks at your doctor's office.
Hospitals Fail to Report Doctor Incompetence - ABC NewsOne would assume that a surgeon whose license had been suspended in Oklahoma and revoked in Texas would not be allowed to operate in Hawaii. But that's what happened in 2001 when the surgeon used a screwdriver in place of a titanium rod for a spine procedure.
Nursing home aide accused of muffling patientAn aide at a Grand Junction nursing home has been arrested on charges of using a pillow to silence a screaming patient
If a doctor wants you or your children to have a vaccine ask them to sign this form:Physician's Warranty of Vaccine SafetyIn order to protect my patient's well being, I have taken the following steps to guarantee that the vaccines I will use will contain no damaging contaminants.
Expanding Health Coverage May Not Improve Access - Yahoo! News on Yahoo! Newsfrom the article:
I can recall seeing movies such as The English Patient and others, but none compare to John Hughes' films. I am fascinated by good comedy, as well as movies about *patients consulting doctors*.
Computer glitch drops FL medicaid clients Roughly 1 million of Florida's 2.6 million Medicaid patients were mistakenly deleted from eligibility rolls -- zapped by a computer glitch.
Hospital patients possibly exposed to deadly brain disorderIt was just six months, or so, ago that a large group of folks recieved letters from a clinic in Sioux City, Iowa that stated some procedures for sterilizing a medical item wasn't done properly and some patients were exposed to possible viruses as a result. Now this ............ …
AMNews: July 13, 2009. Part B drug proposal would curtail Medicare pay cuts after 2010 ... American Medical NewsWashington -- The typically bleak outlook that marks the proposed Medicare fee schedule for the upcoming year was significantly brighter this time around for physicians looking for relief from impending pay cuts.
The untouchable Leprosy Patients | The News is NowPublic.comNearly 90% of 5 million prevailing leprosy patients in India are neglected by their own families and society. And world over is estimated around 12 to 15 million suffer with leprosy. In Asia this decease is treated as curse, so patients with leprosy are mistreated or isolated.
Hand-Washing | Infection Control | Food Safety | HyGeniusAs early as 1843, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes (whose son became the well known US Supreme Court Justice) advocated hand-washing to prevent childbed fever.
Without Health Care, My Patients Will Die: Please Don't Sacrifice Them For Single Payer Over the last six years I've evaluated and treated hundreds of patients who have very little access to health care. These patients qualified for mental health care, but a great many didn't qualify for access to Medicare or Medicaid (which Californians know as Medi-Cal).
HGS Hoping to Survive Final Test of Lupus DrugIn the high-stakes, high-risk, high-failure business of developing drugs, there are two events that test an executive's intestinal fortitude. One: The first time a drug is tried by a human. Is he still alive? Two: Getting results of final-stage testing. Please, let it have worked.
Let Them Have Their PotThe Feds Should Stop Harassing Sick Patients Who Have the Legal Right to Use Marijuana. In the imaginary world of the hit show "24," federal law enforcement agencies are pouring every last resource into the search for a nuclear terrorist in Los Angeles.
Patients Often Not Told About Abnormal Test ResultsPeople who visit their primary care physician for routine blood tests or screenings are often not informed of the results, a new study finds
RI to Allow Medical Marijuana Compassion Centers The state of Rhode Island will now allow the creation of compassion centers in order to dispense medical marijuana to chronically ill patients. On Tuesday, the Rhode Island General Assembly voted to override Governor Donald Carcieri's veto , allowing the compassion centers.
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