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Griswold Teen Finds Passion For Medicine After Caring For Sick Mom
FOX CTThere are many ways a child can react to a parent falling seriously ill. Fear and anxiety are typical. Anger isn't unusual. But for one Griswold family, a life-threatening illness offered a young boy an unusual opportunity to take control and learn both...Tags: Brown University, Health, Hospitals and Clinics, Dialysis, Hartford Hospital
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Quadriplegic immigrant dies after Chicago-area hospital returned him to Mexico
Sent back to Mexico by the Chicago-area medical center that had treated his crippling injury, the young quadriplegic languished for more than a year in a small-town hospital ill-equipped to handle his needs.
Quelino Ojeda Jimenez, who needed a ventilator...Tags: Health, Pneumonia, Minority Groups, Hospitals and Clinics, Career and Workplace
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Inventor says new heart catheter will save lives
If all goes well for award-winning Plainfield inventor Matt Reavill, his new device will help save lives, decrease health care costs — and employ disabled veterans to boot.
Reavill won a prestigious contest in London late last year called the...Tags: Health, Health and Medical Professionals, Justice System, Hospitals and Clinics, Health Insurance Cost
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Autopsy: Woman's death caused in part from traffic crash injuries
Tribune reporterA South Side woman with multiple health issues has died after a traffic crash in the Chatham neighborhood last November, authorities said today. Kim Ware, 41, of the 5700 block of South Indiana Avenue, was pronounced dead at 3:05 p.m. Wednesday at the...Tags: Transportation Accidents, Disasters and Accidents, Thrombosis , Cook County, Motorvehicle Accidents
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Hopkins, Lockheed aim to modernize the ICU
Johns Hopkins intensive care nurse Nelly E. Lopez spends so much of her workday monitoring patient distress alarms that she sometimes hears phantom beeps even when she is no longer on the job.
Hopkins doctors say Lopez's "alarm fatigue" shows what is...Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health, Health and Medical Professionals, Government Health Care, Blood
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Medical billing a target of fraud investigations
In Maryland, an orthopedic practice agreed to pay $2.5 million to the federal government to settle allegations that it had billed for patients' visits that never took place and had double-charged for X-ray work to get higher reimbursements. In...Tags: Health, Government Health Care, Health Insurance, Politics, Justice System
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Socrates, Brazilian soccer great, dies at 57
Times staff and wire reportsSocrates, 57, former Brazilian soccer great and clever playmaker who was captain of the country's 1982 World Cup team, died of septic shock resulting from an intestinal infection Sunday at a hospital in Sao Paulo. Socrates, known for his elegant style on...Tags: FIFA World Cup, Soccer
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Health Alert Issued: Two Cases of Invasive Infection Often Linked to Infant Formula Under Investigation
Reporter, PhotographerEmployees at Wal-Mart stores across the country are pulling a specific powdered baby formula from the shelves following the death of a 10 day old boy from Lebanon. Avery Cornett is the second infant to be treated during the last month at a Missouri...Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Walmart, Health, Premature Birth, Hospitals and Clinics
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PASSINGS: Bill McKinney, Socrates
Bill McKinney
Character actor was in 'Deliverance'
Bill McKinney, 80, a character actor who carved out a career playing rough-and-tumble villains, most notably the backwoods man who sexually assaults Ned Beatty's character in the 1972 film "Deliverance,...Tags: Health, FIFA World Cup, Bill McKinney, Television, Jon Voight
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Woman, 79, dies from September beating injuries
Tribune reporterThe death of a 79-year-old woman whose daughter is charged with beating her following a car crash in September was ruled a homicide today. Thelma Watkins-Cato of the 10500 block of South King Drive was pronounced dead Thursday, according to a spokesman...Tags: Health, Oak Lawn, Witnesses, Hospitals and Clinics, Judges
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Etta James hospitalized after experiencing difficulty breathing
Pop & HissBlue’s singer Etta James’ has been hospitalized after experiencing difficulty breathing, said her manager, Lupe de Leon, on Friday... -
Etta James hospitalized; care decisions remain in husband's hands
Ministry of GossipEtta James has been hospitalized. Singer Etta James, 73, reportedly was admitted to a Riverside hospital Monday because of a urinary tract infection that resulted in sepsis.....
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