Posts Tagged ‘hospitals’
AP IMPACT: Meth fills hospitals with burn patients (AP)
AP – A crude new method of making methamphetamine poses a risk even to Americans who never get anywhere near the drug: It is filling hospitals with thousands of uninsured burn patients requiring millions of dollars in advanced treatment — a burden so costly that it’s contributing to the closure of some burn units.
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AP IMPACT: Hospitals face drug price-gouging (AP)
AP – A severe shortage of drugs for chemotherapy, infections and other serious ailments is endangering patients and forcing hospitals to buy life-saving medications from secondary suppliers at huge markups because they can’t get them any other way.
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9 dead after IV infections at 6 Ala hospitals (AP)
AP – Nine Alabama hospital patients who were treated with contaminated intravenous feeding bags have died and the maker has pulled the product off the market, state health officials said Tuesday.
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Ariz. may require hospitals to check citizenship (AP)
AP – Republican lawmakers want to widen Arizona’s illegal immigration crackdown with a proposal to require hospitals to check on whether patients are in the country legally, causing outrage among medical professionals who fear becoming de facto immigration agents under the law.
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Catholic hospitals support health care bill (AP)
AP – A group representing Catholic hospitals Saturday rallied behind President Barack Obama’s health care bill ahead of a House vote in which anti-abortion lawmakers could play a decisive role.
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Foreign hospitals help quake-damaged health system (AP)
AP – Chile launched a hepatitis and tetanus vaccination campaign Friday and doctors warned of outbreaks of diarrhea and infection among thousands of people displaced by the earthquake and the tsunami that heavily damaged or destroyed 36 hospitals and made garbage dumps of coastal towns and cities.
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Medicine running out at Haiti hospitals, clinics
Criminals, rapists on the loose in Haiti
AFP. PORT-AU-PRINCE. Haiti’s quake survivors faced rising insecurity with thousands of criminals on the loose and reports of rape and violence plaguing the weak and vulnerable.
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Fundraisingfun for Haiti
Olivia Elias, 13, right, paid $1 to hit her school principal, Jamii Hitchcock, left, with a pie. The pie-throwing event at Berkley’s Norup International School raised $475 for a Haiti orphanage decimated by the recent earthquake. Olivia enjoyed throwing the pie but said about Haiti, “It’s really sad. I hope everything gets better there soon.”
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W&M freshman’s Haiti work just beginning
Physically, Danny Yates is home, but his mind, heart and spirit remain in Haiti.
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Haiti situation, a shame – Cuban Foreign Minister
CUBA: The situation that Haiti is experiencing is a shame to humankind, even before the earthquake, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez asserted on Thursday.
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Medicine running out at Haiti hospitals, clinics
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Doctors and aid workers say treating the tens of thousands of Haitians injured by the earthquake is taxing the country’s devastated hospitals — as well as the efforts of physicians from around the world who are providing emergency care.
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