Nearly four months after Daniel Hughes, an 18-year old chemical engineering student at Ohio State, was hit and run over by a construction truck on campus September 5, no police report has been released.As Hughes tries to cope with a bone infection and the loss of...
Two former nursing home workers are in jail after being caught on camera abusing an elderly patient whose daughter decided to take actions into her own hands, according to NBC News.Regina Battles, 20, and Irene Rodriguez, 22, formerly of Arbors at Buck Run in Bucks...
Despite advances in medical care, cerebral palsy remains a significant health problem. As many as 1 million people of all ages are affected, and that number has increased over time. Cerebral palsy is an umbrella term for a group of disorders affecting body...
A 34 year old married mother of two boys recently delivered her third child. During surgery for the delivery, a C-section, a portion of intestines were injured. This lead to an infection that went undiagnosed for several days. Unfortunately she died...
Consolidation in health care is creating a tightening bind for independent doctors across the country, according to a recent article in The New York Times. Reduced Medicare reimbursements and higher technology costs are just some reasons why the percentage of...
The negligence of a doctors, nurses, hospitals, and other medical professionals and facilities contribute to hundreds of thousands of deaths per year in the U.S. alone – about 440,000, to be exact. While some mistakes are inevitable, and not all...
The recent meningitis outbreak that has sickened nearly 500 people and killed 34 might have been prevented if it weren't for oversight failures by the Food and Drug Administration, according to The New York Times.In documents released following Freedom of Information...
Physicians who are feeling the weight of insurance reimbursements have been forced to make many changes in their practices, including becoming cash only, according to The New York Times.This route, often called "concierge medicine," usually results for three reasons:...
Everyone knows a healthy diet can increase your overall fitness, but do the foods you eat have any affect on your chance of surviving a serious disease like colon cancer?That answer is yes, according to a study published in The Journal of the National Cancer...
