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U.S. / NEWS Wed Aug 15, 2007 @ 9:41am neoform

MSNBC -- In a confrontation captured on videotape, a hospital security guard fired a stun gun to stop a defiant father from taking home his newborn, sending both man and child crashing to the floor. Now the man says the baby girl suffers from head trauma becaus.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jul 11, 2007 @ 11:14pm neoform

FOX News -- A man placed in isolation in an Arkansas hospital after he was diagnosed with contagious tuberculosis broke a window and fled, health officials said. Unlike the Georgia lawyer who was under a federal quarantine after flying to Europe with what was then.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jun 19, 2007 @ 10:18pm neoform

FOX News -- A man who doused himself with gasoline then caught on fire after police fired a Taser stun gun at him died from his injuries Tuesday, a hospital spokeswoman said. Juan Flores Lopez, 47, was hospitalized after the confrontation with officers in his yard.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue May 15, 2007 @ 11:10pm neoform

CNN -- More than a year after an elderly hospital patient was found wandering a crime-ridden area in a hospital gown and slippers, the nation's largest HMO agreed in a settlement with the city to changes aimed at ending the dumping of homeless patients on street.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 11, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

CNN -- A Texas judge Tuesday granted a family's request to keep their critically ill baby alive, ruling that the boy should not be removed from life-support equipment as the hospital had planned. Children's Hospital of Austin has been caring for 17-month-old.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Mar 30, 2007 @ 12:37pm neoform

FOX News -- A homeless day laborer was recovering in a hospital Friday after two 10-year-old boys and an older teen were charged with attacking him on a street and smashing a concrete block into his face. The three boys, each charged with aggravated battery, face.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Mar 11, 2007 @ 12:05pm neoform

CBS News -- A newborn baby kidnapped from a Texas hospital by a woman posing as a medical worker was found early Sunday safe in neighboring New Mexico, police said. Four-day-old Mychael Darthard-Dawodu was in good condition in the city of Clovis, about 100 miles n.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Mar 2, 2007 @ 6:41pm neoform

Reuters -- U.S. Army Secretary Francis Harvey has resigned after reports that troops wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan were being poorly treated at the Army's top hospital, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Friday. The resignation of Harvey, the top civilian a.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Feb 21, 2007 @ 10:18am mrmdc

Yahoo News -- U.S. spending on prescription drugs, hospital care and other health services is expected to double to $4.1 trillion over the next decade, up from $2.1 trillion in 2006, a government report released on Wednesday found. Despite relative stability in rece.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Feb 1, 2007 @ 9:27am mrmdc

Newsday -- A woman who miscarried her fetus a day after she was thrown in jail is suing the police department and two arresting officers who ignored her pleas for medical help... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jan 9, 2007 @ 8:09am neoform

MSNBC -- A man who donated sperm so that his fiancee could be inseminated is suing an Oregon hospital that gave the sample to the wrong woman... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue May 13, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

SF Gate -- Mother's Day was late this year, but Barbara Lamascus got a gift far better than chocolate or flowers: She found her son. Bobby Joe Lamascus, 50, a mentally disabled San Bruno man who disappeared Thursday while on a trip to San Francisco, was found Mon.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 9, 2008 @ 8:23am neoform

BBC News -- US doctors have carried out what is believed to be the world's first simultaneous six-way kidney transplant. Six recipients received organs from six donors in operations at the John Hopkins Hospital in Maryland. The procedure was made possible after.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Mar 18, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

CNN -- A man in a wheelchair at a hospital who claimed his oxygen tank had a detonator was fatally shot by police after a four-hour standoff Monday. Terrance Baughman, 32, was shot in the chest and died about seven hours later after undergoing surgery at Boul.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jan 3, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- A brazen escape by a prisoner being treated at a hospital — the second such escape in as many months — has prompted an investigation about how inmates are handled outside prison walls. Kelvin Poke, 45, overpowered five guards at Laurel Regional Hos.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Nov 26, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

SF Gate -- A 2-year-old Vallejo girl is clinging to life at Children's Hospital in Oakland after she was shot in the head allegedly by her father, Vernon Val Watson, who, police say, killed her mother and then shot himself late Friday night. Watson, 42, who had a.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Aug 19, 2007 @ 1:52pm neoform

MSNBC -- Evangelist Billy Graham was in fair condition Saturday and resting comfortably in a hospital near his home after he was admitted for evaluation and treatment of an intestinal bleed, hospital officials said. Graham, 88, was fully alert, and his doctors.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jul 14, 2007 @ 10:18pm neoform

FOX News -- A tourist who suffered a broken neck at Yankee Stadium when another fan fell on him is recovering from his injuries, hospital officials said. "His neck is in a big brace. He's not paralyzed. Luckily, the surgery was very, very successful. And this is a.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Jun 10, 2007 @ 9:52am neoform

CNN -- A shooting inside a home left six people dead, and a child was found in a nearby vehicle with a gunshot to the chest, the Delavan police chief said Sunday. Police responded to a report of shots fired Saturday night in the southern Wisconsin city, Chief.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Jun 3, 2007 @ 11:38am neoform

FOX News -- The man quarantined for a drug-resistant form of tuberculosis settled in Saturday for what could be a two-month hospital stay by taking antibiotics and fielding phone calls. Andrew Speaker, the first person placed under federal quarantine since 1963, h.. Read More