Report: Rising Flu Cases Force Local Hospitals to Erect Overflow Tents in Parking Lots
Emergency departments in California’s San Diego County are reportedly seeing an overwhelming number of patients as flu season ramps up.
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Small Trial of Patients Taking Same Drug Sees Their Cancer Vanish
A trial involving 18 rectal cancer patients taking the same drug resulted in the cancer disappearing for all of them, the New York Times reported Monday.
Nurse Suspended After Stripping PPE to Have Sex with Coronavirus Patient
A nurse in Indonesia has been suspended from his duties after admitting he took off his personal protective equipment (PPE) to have sex with a coronavirus patient.
30 Coronavirus Patients at Texas Nursing Home Getting Hydroxychloroquine
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced that 30 coronavirus patients at a nursing home in Texas City are being treated with hydroxychloroquine.
Three Maryland Coronavirus Patients Make Full Recovery
Three people have made a full recovery after testing positive for the Chinese coronavirus in Montgomery County, Maryland, recently.
VIDEO: Hoverboarding Dentist Found Guilty of Reckless Endangerment
A dentist was found guilty Friday after he extracted a patient’s tooth while riding a hoverboard at his office in Anchorage, Alaska.
Tennessee Dentist Fails to Sterilize Equipment, Patients Urged to Get HIV Tests
Officials are urging patients of one Tennessee dentist to get tested for HIV and hepatitis after the dentist failed to sterilize dental equipment before dental procedures properly.
Thousands of Hospital Patients Exposed to HIV, Hepatitis Due to Botched Sterilization
Thousands of patients at an Indiana hospital were exposed to HIV and Hepatitis due to a sterilization technician’s failure to properly disinfect surgical tools between surgeries, a northern Indiana hospital announced this week.
Cancer Patient Requests to Be Baptized Just Days Before His Death
A wheel-chair bound man dying of lung cancer made one final request before his death on September 10th in Birmingham, Alabama.
Doctor Sentenced to 40 Years for Illegally Prescribing Opioids
A doctor from Martinsville, Virginia, has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for illegally prescribing opioids to his patients.
PHOTOS: Hospital Children Embrace Melania Trump for Christmas Storytime
First lady Melania Trump read Oliver the Ornament to hospital children on Thursday at Children’s National hospital, embracing them and former preemie babies.
