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MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama state employees suffering from obesity and three other health problems will eventually have to pay extra for their health insurance if they don’t try to control their problems.
The State Employees’ Insurance Board approved a plan that will charge state workers an extra $25 per month, starting in January 2010, if they […]
RALEIGH, North Carolina A mental patient died after workers at a North Carolina hospital left him in a chair for 22 hours without feeding him or helping him use the bathroom, said federal officials who have threatened to cut off the facility’s funding.
The state sent a team Tuesday to help Cherry […]
Twins with different skin colors — one black and the other white — have been born in Berlin, Germany.
Doctors say it is an extremely rare occurrence, but it is possible if genes combine in a certain way.
The twin boys, named Ryan and Leo, are the offspring of a mixed-race couple.
The mother, Florence, hails from […]
BOSTON — A doctor who performed an abortion on a 22-year-old woman who later died has been indicted on charges of manslaughter.
Dr. Rapin Osathanondh was indicted Wednesday by a Barnstable County grand jury in the death of Laura Hope Smith.
Smith died at Cape Cod Hospital in 2007 after an abortion at the Women’s Health Center […]
A woman who died unnoticed on a hospital floor in a scene recorded by security cameras was killed by blood clots caused by a long period of physical inactivity, according to the city’s medical examiner.
Esmin Green, 49, had been sitting in a waiting room at the city-owned Kings County Hospital Center for nearly 24 hours […]
CAMERON, Mo. — A town hall meeting is set for Thursday regarding the cluster of brain tumors in Cameron.
The meeting will allow residents to hear from state officials about what is going on the community.
More than 12 brain tumors have been diagnosed in recent months in the town, and the number of cases continues to […]
GREENFIELD, N.H. — A 12-year-old Claremont boy who has been in a coma since he was run over by a forklift has been transferred to a brain injury center.
Tracey Hagerman hopes doctors and therapists at Crotched Mountain rehabilitation center in Greenfield can coax her son Jason back into consciousness.
Jason went to work with her boyfriend […]
ATLANTA — Police said a man posing as an emergency room doctor, even fooling his wife, was arrested last week at Piedmont Hospital.
“He told me he was a doctor as well as an electrical engineer,” Tammi Perteet told WSB-TV Channel 2 reporter Diana Davis in an exclusive interview.
Tammi said Eric Perteet seemed like a dream […]
ATLANTA - The number of people hospitalized with a dangerous intestinal superbug has been growing by more than 10,000 cases a year, according to a new study.
The germ, resistant to some antibiotics, has become a regular menace in hospitals and nursing homes. The study found it played a role in nearly 300,000 hospitalizations in 2005, […]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A local teenager thought he was being trendy when he pierced his lip. Now, he’s in a hospital bed with an infection so bad doctors say it could kill him.
Within days, Wheeler became achy and developed sores on his feet and hands.
Doctors realized a staph infection had set in and spread […]