Losing Harper: How a doctor's accusation separated a mother from her child
NBC News - Ajshay James sees her only child, Harper, just two times a month. The state took custody in 2017 after doctors accused her of medical child abuse. They believed Ajshay had exaggerated her...
View ArticleA baby had serious health problems. Then doctors accused her mother of making...
NBC News - Doctors have wrongly accused some mothers of medical child abuse, or Munchausen Syndrome by proxy, leading to painful family separations and threats of criminal charges, an investigation found.
View ArticleMo. Attorney General's Office, local attorneys provide free estate planning...
KFVS CBS Cape Giradeau - Missouri Attorney General's Office and local attorneys provided free estate planned for veterans at the John J. Pershing VA Medical Center
View ArticleWisconsin Assembly approves insurance for police survivors
WITI FOX Milwaukee - MADISON ? Wisconsin legislators have passed a bill that would extend health insurance for immediate survivors of police officers and emergency medical workers killed in the line of...
View ArticleHenry Schein named as defendant in opioid lawsuit
Newsday - Henry Schein Inc. and other medical products distributors are facing an unwelcome spotlight as remaining defendants in a national opioid lawsuit, after Purdue Pharma LP and several other...
View ArticleThe Grim Lottery Of Surprise Medical Bill Stories
Digg - Journalists can occasionally help the victims of the health care industry's predations, but without major reform these abuses will continue.
View ArticleHeward Jr., William "Bill" C.
- William "Bill" C. Heward Jr., 60, of Damascus, Va., passed away on Monday, October 7, 2019, at Johnson City Medical Center in Johnson City, Tenn. He was born in Baltimore,
View ArticleLeonard, Shirley Temple
- Shirley Temple Leonard, age 83, of Blountville, Tenn., went to be with the Lord Wednesday, October 9, 2019, at Bristol Regional Medical Center. She was born on August 8, 1936,
View ArticleTaylor, Raymond D.
- MARION, Va. Raymond D. Taylor, 69, died on Saturday, October 5, 2019, at the VA Medical Center, in Mountain Home, Tennessee. A graveside service and interment will be held at
View ArticleChurch pays off $7.8 million in medical debt for thousands of families in...
WPBF ABC Palm Beach - Imagine waking up one day to a clean slate.
View ArticleVanderSloots continue medical debt collector battle
KIDK CBS Idaho Falls - Idaho Falls businessman Frank VanderSloot and his wife Belinda have announced a second $500,000 donation to help Idaho citizens defend themselves from overly aggressive medical...
View ArticleACLU Sues Pennsylvania County To Allow Parolees, Probationers To Use Cannabis
High Times - Lebanon County prohibits those on parole or probation from using medical marijuana.
View ArticleAIIMS Delhi wins top cleanliness award, bags Rs 3 crore
India Times - NEW DELHI: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Friday bagged the first prize from the Centre for maintaining cleanliness within the.
View ArticleMachine learning system analyzes tumors faster than human boards
Smart Brief - A cloud-based machine learning tumor analysis system was significantly faster than conventional tumor boards in making treatment decisions based on biomarkers in a study involving 1,725...
View ArticleMosaic Life Care wins nine-day civil trial
St. Joseph News-Press - After nine days of presenting evidence and witnesses, the case of Roy Dalbey v. Heartland Regional Medical Center has ended with a jury ruling in the hospital's favor.
View ArticleCanada's Decision To Make Public More Clinical Trial Data Puts Pressure On FDA
NPR - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration treats most data it gets on the development of new drugs and medical devices as confidential to companies. Critics say making the data public would help...
View ArticleKhaleda urgently needs better treatment, says sister Selima
Bangladesh Daily Sun - BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zias sister Selima Islam on Friday said the former prime ministers physical condition has deteriorated further and she needs better treatment on an...
View ArticleMan gets 'DNR' tattoo to prevent ever coming 'back as vegetable'
New York Post - A 52-year-old man who said he is in good health has pre-emptively gotten the letters "DNR" ("Do Not Resuscitate") tattooed on his chest in the event of a medical emergency.
View ArticleRogue rehab facilities need state oversight: Cottie Petrie-Norris
Riverside Press-Enterprise - Gov. Newsom could usher in the same kind of legislative protections for people battling addiction that are in place for patients facing other medical challenges.
View ArticleSuspended NJ police officer, wife indicted in infant's death
WPIX CW New York City - TRENTON, N.J. ? A suspended New Jersey police officer and his wife have been indicted in the death of their three-month-old daughter. Daniel Bannister is charged with murder in...
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