Hospital News
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New moms in Chicago get an extra helping of joy
4:05 PM on 03/08/2010
VIDEO - Nearly four thousand babies are born at Chicago's Mt. Sinai Hospital each year. To each mother, any gift, even a simple baby gift, makes a difference...
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TheGrio's 100: Dr. Kathie-Ann Joseph, battling breast cancer and more
1:00 PM on 02/26/2010
TheGrio's 100 - For Dr. Kathie-Ann Joseph, going into breast cancer research offered the double benefit...
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Bill Clinton hospitalized; undergoes heart surgery
3:26 PM on 02/11/2010
NEW YORK (AP) - Former President Bill Clinton had two stents inserted Thursday to prop open a clogged heart artery...
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UN slams Haitian hospitals for charging patients
11:25 AM on 02/09/2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) - The United Nations has warned that it will cut off shipments of free medicine beginning immediately to any Haitian hospitals that it finds are charging patients...
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Wounded Haitians seek care in Dominican hospitals
10:58 PM on 01/15/2010
VIDEO - It's 10-year-old Galdenia's first time out of her country Haiti. However, her trip to Santo Domingo is no vacation...
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Doctor makes trip to Haiti to find patients
4:42 PM on 01/13/2010
VIDEO - A Fort Myers doctor who just returned from Haiti is tackling the disaster head on by launching a donation campaign. Tonight Dr.Stephen Schroering can't stop thinking about the patients in these pictures...
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'Diff'rent Strokes' star Gary Coleman hospitalized
8:51 AM on 01/07/2010
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- "Diff'rent Strokes" actor Gary Coleman is in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering what he believes was a slight seizure..
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Suspected Holocaust museum shooter dies in prison
8:02 PM on 01/06/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - The 89-year-old man accused of a deadly shooting at Washington's Holocaust museum died Wednesday in a prison hospital.
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NFL player "battling for his life" after domestic dispute
7:59 AM on 12/17/2009
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (AP) -- Cincinnati Bengals receiver Chris Henry is "battling for his life" after falling out of the back of a pickup during what police described as a domestic dispute with his fiancee on Wednesday...
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Pregnant woman ignored in waiting room; baby dies at home
7:05 AM on 12/12/2009
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Clark County says University Medical Center has suspended six employees while it investigates claims that a woman was ignored for so long in an emergency room that she went home and gave birth to a premature baby who later died...
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Tiger Woods' mother-in-law released from hospital
3:43 PM on 12/08/2009
Health Central Hospital spokesman Dan Yates said Barbro Holmberg was released Tuesday afternoon, about 11 hours after she was admitted. She went back to Woods' mansion.
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Woods' mother-in-law in hospital with stomach pain
9:04 AM on 12/08/2009
WINDERMERE, Fla. (AP) - Fire department medics have responded overnight to a 911 call in the same block as Tiger Woods' Orlando-area home...
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540,000 kids have allergic reactions to medicines, study says
10:53 AM on 09/28/2009
New research shows that more than half a million U.S. children, every year, have bad reactions or side effects from widely used medicines that require medical treatment and sometimes hospitalization...
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Chicago man accused of killing parents, barricading himself in hospital
2:42 PM on 09/24/2009
CHICAGO (AP) - Authorities say a Chicago man who barricaded himself in a hospital for hours has been charged in the shooting deaths of his parents.
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Black men more likely to die from prostate cancer
9:36 AM on 09/04/2009
VIDEO - September is National Prostate Cancer Awareness month - a time to encourage men to go to the doctor and get tested for the potentially deadly disease.
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LA County allocates $350M to rebuild hospital in poor area
7:00 AM on 08/19/2009
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- County officials on Tuesday approved a plan to fully reopen a troubled South Los Angeles hospital that has become a symbol of the area's continued racial strife.
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Innovative 'Domino Transplant' doctor changes lives
9:14 AM on 08/05/2009
Currently, 35 percent of the 85,458 people on the wait list for kidney transplants are African Americans. Dr. J. Keith Melancon has developed the "domino transplant" to help match donors with recipients, and the innovative procedure is saving lives.
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Blacks' mistrust of medical system limits organ donations
5:22 PM on 08/04/2009
An ambitious campaign to increase black enrollment on organ donation began in...
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"Fun Center" eases pain of hospital trips for kids
8:31 AM on 07/27/2009
Hospitalization can be a scary experience for children. That's one reason why Lake Charles Memorial Hospital's Pediatric Unit in Louisiana is making kid-friendly improvements for both young patients and parents...
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Barcode technology prevents medical mistakes
11:32 AM on 07/16/2009
Thousands of people die each year from preventable medical errors, but a Louisiana hospital has found a way to cut those statistics and save lives. Barcode technology that you've seen thousands of times at your local grocery store is now transforming the way medication is delivered in hospitals...
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