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British surgeons have removed a melon-sized tumour from the face of a 3 year-old Iraqi boy.
Saif Basim needed the life-saving surgery to stop the benign tumour from eventually choking him to death by crushing his windpipe. He had been unable to smile for the last year and could only open his mouth a few centimeters to eat.
Saif couldn't have the surgery in Iraq, so a British surgical charity used a loan to fund the procedure at a London hospital.
12 British surgeons and doctors worked for free to remove the 1lb 10oz growth.
Saif has recovered and is nearly ready to go home. The charity that funded the surgery is now desperately trying to raise funds to pay back the £35,000 loan.British surgeons have removed a melon-sized tumour from the face of a 3 year-old Iraqi... more
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In a benchmark case dealing with the obligations of hospitals toward uninsured illegal immigrants, a jury in Stuart, Fla., decided Monday that Martin Memorial Medical Center did not act unreasonably when it chartered a plane and repatriated a severely brain-injured Guatemalan patient against the will of his guardian.
Judge James W. Midelis instructed the jury in state court late last week that because of a Florida appeals court decision, it was already “a matter of law” that the patient, Luis Alberto Jiménez, had been unlawfully detained and deprived of his liberty.
Cases like have been happening in all border states for years. The case here is not if the patient can cover the expenses, but whether hospitals treat it patients humanely, and respect the Hippocrates oath
What do you think?In a benchmark case dealing with the obligations of hospitals toward uninsured illegal... more
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During the early hours of a steamy July 2003 morning, Martin Memorial Medical Center chartered a private plane and sent Luis Jimenez back to the Central American country without telling his relatives in the U.S. or Guatemala — even as his cousin and legal guardian, Montejo Gaspar, frantically sought to stop the move.
There, things get murky. Gaspar is suing the hospital for essentially deporting Jimenez, who was an illegal immigrant. The hospital, which spent more than $1.5 million on his care over three years, says Jimenez wanted to go home.
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Underlying the dispute is the broader question of what Americans expect a hospital to do with a patient who requires long-term care, is unable to pay and doesn’t qualify for federal or state aid because of his immigration status. Health care and immigration experts across the country are watching the case, which could set precedent in Florida and possibly beyond. Lawyers for Jimenez said this appears to be the first time a lawsuit has been filed in such a case.During the early hours of a steamy July 2003 morning, Martin Memorial Medical Center... more
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A former hospital employee may have exposed hundreds, or even thousands, of surgical patients to hepatitis C after taking their fentanyl injections and replacing them with used syringes filled with saline solution, authorities say. Kristen Diane Parker, who worked at Rose Medical Center in Denver, has admitted to secretly injecting herself in a bathroom and using unclean syringes as replacements for patients, investigators say.
She had hepatitis C, which she believes she contracted through using heroin and sharing dirty needles while she lived in New Jersey in 2008, authorities say.
She was a surgical technician at Rose from October 2008 to April 2009.
Nine patients who had surgery there during that time have tested positive for hepatitis C. Investigators are looking into whether they contracted the virus from Parker.
According to an affidavit filed by an investigator with the Food and Drug Administration, Rose Medical Center knew Parker tested positive for hepatitis C. She was counseled on how to limit her exposure to patients.
Parker quit after she was found in an operating room where she was not allowed to be. She subsequently tested positive for fentanyl. Hospital officials then contacted the DEA. Parker is in federal custody facing three drug-related charges. If she is found to have done serious harm to a patient, she could face up to 20 years in prison. If a patient dies due to her actions, she could face life in prison.
In a statement to police, Parker said, "I can't take back what I did, but I will have to live with it for the rest of my life, and so does everyone else."
Her attorney could not be reached Friday.
Rose Medical Center is contacting 4,700 patients who had surgery at Rose during the time Parker was employed there. However, hospital officials do not believe that that many patients were exposed.
"We are taking a very conservative and cautious approach by contacting everyone who had surgery during this broad time period," a statement on the hospital's Web site states. "It is likely that most of the patients who receive letters will not have been exposed to hepatitis C."
Another 1,200 patients may have been infected between May 4, 2009, and July 1, 2009, when Parker worked at Audubon Ambulatory Surgical Center in Colorado Springs. Audubon is also contacting patients.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, hepatitis C is a contagious liver disease that can lead to cirrhosis or liver cancer.A former hospital employee may have exposed hundreds, or even thousands, of surgical... more
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For patients with prostate cancer, it is a common surgical procedure: a doctor implants dozens of radioactive seeds to attack the disease. But when Dr. Gary D. Kao treated one patient at the veterans’ hospital in Philadelphia, his aim was more than a little off.
Most of the seeds, 40 in all, landed in the patient’s healthy bladder, not the prostate.
It was a serious mistake, and under federal rules, regulators investigated. But Dr. Kao, with their consent, made his mistake all but disappear.
He simply rewrote his surgical plan to match the number of seeds in the prostate, investigators said.
The revision may have made Dr. Kao look better, but it did nothing for the patient, who had to undergo a second implant. It failed, too, resulting in an unintended dose to the rectum. Regulators knew nothing of this second mistake because no one reported it.
Two years later, in 2005, Dr. Kao rewrote another surgical plan after putting half the seeds in the wrong organ. Once again, regulators did not object.
Had the government responded more aggressively, it might have uncovered a rogue cancer unit at the hospital, one that operated with virtually no outside scrutiny and botched 92 of 116 cancer treatments over a span of more than six years — and then kept quiet about it, according to interviews with investigators, government officials and public records.
The team continued implants for a year even though the equipment that measured whether patients received the proper radiation dose was broken. The radiation safety committee at the Veterans Affairs hospital knew of this problem but took no action, records show.
One patient was the Rev. Ricardo Flippin, a 21-year veteran of the Air Force. “I couldn’t walk and I couldn’t stand,” he said, citing rectal pain so severe that he had to remain in bed for six months, losing his church job and his income.
Pastor Flippin first learned of what his doctors called a radiation injury not from the V.A., but from an Ohio hospital where he underwent rectal surgery in 2006 to treat the damage. “There are times when I don’t have control over my bowels,” he said one recent Sunday, after excusing himself during a service at a church in West Virginia where he now preaches.
The 92 implant errors resulted from a systemwide failure in which none of the safeguards that were supposed to protect veterans from poor medical care worked, an examination by The New York Times has found.For patients with prostate cancer, it is a common surgical procedure: a doctor... more
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Source Link: http://linkbee.com/BabyHospitalized
A one-and-a-half-year-old boy high on marijuana was brought to a children's intensive care unit for treatment on Thursday, after his parents noticed that he was overly sleepy, apathetic and walking unsteadily.
"The baby arrived at the hospital with his mother after repeated unsuccessful attempts on her part to... Continue Reading from Source: http://linkbee.com/BabyHospitalized
What the hell is happening to people these days?!Source Link: http://linkbee.com/BabyHospitalized
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Saturday's edition of my three times a week talk show.Watch the show HERE ON CURRENT TV on Tues, Thurs & Sats.
In today's show :
Only half of my face.
Post Office.
A white screen.
Ringing a hospital bedside phone.
Gary is in hospital.
A definate connection.
Nasty slimy creatures.
Attack of the files.
Blood, Sweat, & Takeaways.
Trying to sell me things.
Rat droppings.
M.O.T.
Outside theatres.
What else is in the cupboard ?
Come dine with me.
They wait until you've gone to bed.
High mileage.
A new kitchen.
An eye opener.
An entire loaf of bread.
A Morrisons breakfast.
A well respected community.
Falseness.
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For years, hospitals have embodied a paradox. As patients are tethered to dialysis machines, and many lay bedridden from obesity-related diseases, the hospitals' fast food joints and cafeterias dispense fried goodies and slick burgers that contributed to such conditions.
"With fast food establishments, hospitals are sending a message that food is not important to health," said Jamie Harvey, a food coordinator of Health Care Without Harm, a coalition of hospitals and health-related groups. "But we know that's wrong. We're starting to see in a sweeping way that food is essential to health. Hospitals are adapting to that message."
Some hospitals around the country have gone on a diet: Deep fryers have gone cold, trans fats have been banished, and the glow of the golden arches (and other fast food symbols) have dimmed as leases have quietly gone unrenewed. Instead, these hospitals are offering an alternative food source: farmers markets.
Patients who've been warned to improve their diets can now walk out of the hospital and find locally grown strawberries, apricots and baby red potatoes sold on the parking lot. Kaiser Permanente, the nation's largest not-for-profit health system, has 30 farmers markets in mostly Western states like California, Washington and Oregon.
"The focus on local food systems gives us food that's good for us, good for our children, good for farmers that grow it and it's good for the Earth," said Dr. Preston Maring, a family physician for 38 years who brought the concept of farmers markets to Kaiser in 2003. Having locally grown fruits and vegetables next to a hospital gives people the visual connection between good food and better health, Maring said.
"It's clear to me over all these years what people eat is the single most important determinant of their overall health. It just struck me one day -- why not bring good food to a place where people get their health care to see if it could become a focal point for education?"
One of the farmers, Roberto Rodriguez, who sells organic strawberries at the Kaiser Permanente farmers market in Oakland, California, said the customers say the local goods are "sweeter, fresh and last longer."For years, hospitals have embodied a paradox. As patients are tethered to dialysis... more
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Saturday's edition of my three times a week talk show.Watch or listen to the show on Tues, Thurs & Sats here at WWW.UNITEDKINGDOMTALK.CO.UK
In today's show :
It shakes.
You can't take it with you.
So much excitement.
Different attire.
Laying in the gutter and screaming.
PJ's.
Training.
Hospital.
Lift & seperate.
Was it the cheap drinks ?
A bit of a fight.
It's all over a girl.
Sue them !
We must prepare.
Cut the orange in half.
A headache.
Calling the doormen.
chris@unitedkingdomtalk.co.uk
www.chrisreardon.co.ukSaturday's edition of my three times a week talk show.Watch or listen to the show... more
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Jay Leno checked into a Los Angeles hospital on Thursday with an undisclosed illness, forcing the comedian to cancel a taping of "The Tonight Show" for the first time in his 17-year tenure.
Leno's representatives did not say what he was treated for at the hospital, but he is expected to return to work on Monday.
"Jay Leno is doing just fine," NBC said in a statement. "He was kidding around with the hospital staff and running his monologue jokes by the doctors and nurses."
The location of the hospital was not disclosed either.
Leno, 58, has not missed a scheduled appearance on "The Tonight Show" since he started hosting it in 1992, except for a show a few years ago in which he traded places with Katie Couric, said NBC spokeswoman Tracy St. Pierre.
Conan O'Brien will take over the coveted "Tonight Show" slot on June 1, while Leno will move to his own week-night prime-time program this fall.Jay Leno checked into a Los Angeles hospital on Thursday with an undisclosed illness,... more
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"Scientists in South Dakota are reporting development of the first broad-spectrum antimicrobial paint, a material that can simultaneously kill not just disease-causing bacteria but mold, fungi, and viruses. Designed to both decorate and disinfect homes, businesses, and health-care settings, the paint is the most powerful to date, according to their new study. It appears in the current issue of the monthly ACS' Applied Materials & Interfaces. The paint shows special promise for fighting so-called "superbugs," antibiotic-resistant microbes that infect hospital surfaces and cause an estimated 88,000 deaths annually in the United States, the researchers say."
Via, American Chemical Society
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/am800157a
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This is a really neat invention, and could save a lot of lives. And yes, I know you wont be able to paint absolutely everything in a hospital, but this is a big step in the right direction. Maybe they will start using it in every day household items.______Lab Spaces______
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Margaret Haywood, the 58 year old nurse who secretly filming a Brighton hospital for BBC's Panorama programme in 2005, has been struck off by the Nursing and Midwifery Council for misconduct.
A BBC Spokesperson responded to this saying "Panorama believes that Margaret Haywood has done the elderly population of this country a great service"Margaret Haywood, the 58 year old nurse who secretly filming a Brighton hospital for... more
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A form of liquid morphine used by terminally ill patients will remain on the market even though it is an "unapproved drug," according to a decision by the Food and Drug Administration.
After talking with hospital and hospice organizations, which expressed concern that taking the product off the market would result in hardship for terminally ill patients and their caregivers, the agency decided to extend the usage of morphine sulfate oral solution 20 mg/ml. The agency wants to ensure there is shortage of the drug while patients wait for an approved product to take its place.
"While the FDA remains committed to ultimately ensuring that all prescription drugs on the market are FDA approved, we have to balance that goal with flexibility and compassion for patients who have a few alternatives for the alleviation of their pain," Dr. Douglas Throckmorton, deputy director of the FDA's Center for drug Evaluation and Research, said Thursday.
"In light of the concerns raised by these patients and their health-care providers, we have adjusted our actions with regard to these particular products."
Last month, the FDA sent warning letters to nine companies telling them to stop manufacturing 14 unapproved narcotics that are widely used to treat pain. Seven of those companies made or distributed the oral morphine. The morphine elixir is widely used by terminal patients in hospital and home hospice care settings and is manufactured by Lehigh Valley Technologies Inc., Mallinckrodt Inc. Pharmaceuticals Group, Boehringer Ingelheim Roxane Inc. and Cody Laboratories, Inc.
4/10 6:17 AM ET ClipsFC - WandaA form of liquid morphine used by terminally ill patients will remain on the market... more
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Actor Josh Hartnett has been released from a hospital in LA where he was being given treatment for gastrointestinal problems.Actor Josh Hartnett has been released from a hospital in LA where he was being given... more
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A report from health and social care analysts Laing and Buisson has said that care homes need to improve their approach to people who have dementia.A report from health and social care analysts Laing and Buisson has said that care... more
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An animal hospital is appealing for help after a mystery condition left a hedgehog with no spines.An animal hospital is appealing for help after a mystery condition left a hedgehog... more
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An art student is being questioned after faking madness, being admitted to a psychiatric hospital and pretending to jump off a bridge, all as part of an art project.An art student is being questioned after faking madness, being admitted to a... more
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Restaurant manager Richard Brydon is the first person in the UK to have the new laser sweat ablation operation.Restaurant manager Richard Brydon is the first person in the UK to have the new laser... more
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"Researchers at Ondokuz Mayis University in Turkey tested the cell phones of 200 doctors and nurses and found that nearly all -- 95 percent -- were tainted with bacteria, with some carrying the MRSA superbug that can sicken and even kill patients and that cannot be defeated with any antibiotic. They concluded that doctors and nurses were infecting patients with their cell phones. In the US, MRSA is the cause of most hospital infections.
There are several things you can do to protect yourself and others from your own cell phone. The easiest is to frequently clean your phone with rubbing alcohol.
You can also use a new product from PureLight, a company that makes UV wants for sterilizing large surfaces. Their new portable wand is designed for cell phones.
For the best protection, you can also use one of the methods above, plus use a Bluetooth headset most of the time, to minimize the mouth and hand contact with the phone.""Researchers at Ondokuz Mayis University in Turkey tested the cell phones of 200... more
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It was the kind of meeting that is taking place in restaurant kitchens, small offices, retail storerooms, and large auditoriums all over this city, all over this state, all over this country.
Paul Levy, the guy who runs Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, was standing in Sherman Auditorium the other day, before some of the very people to whom he might soon be sending pink slips.
In the days before the meeting, Levy had been walking around the hospital, noticing little things.It was the kind of meeting that is taking place in restaurant kitchens, small offices,... more
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