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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 […]
BOSTON — Massachusetts state health officials are concerned about a deadly combination of influenza and bacteria that has been found in several cases where children have died from the flu.
They are worried about the Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection, also called MRSA, which is very difficult to treat. Two children who died from flu in the […]
MIAMI — A Vietnamese girl with a 17-pound facial tumor is awaiting life-saving surgery that will restore her ability to eat and speak.
Lai Thi Dao, 15, suffers from a Schwannoma tumor that has been growing since she was 3. The tumor has severely disfigured her face and kept her from attending school.
“She had been with […]
PORTAGE, Wis. — A 9-year-old Portage girl who has had cancer for more than half her life just found out she has a third type of cancer.
Emily Miller was diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia in 2002, overcame it in 2005 and was in remission until April of last year when she was diagnosed with […]