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The ‘July Effect’: Worst Month For Fatal Hospital Errors, Study Finds
There is an old saying among some doctors — do not let your friends and family schedule a surgery in July. July is the month when graduates, fresh out of medical school, report to residencies in teaching hospitals. Anecdotally, at... (Continue reading)
New Island Hospital to join Catholic Health Services (Bethpage, NY)
Written on 27 Jan, 2010 at 16:35 in Featured, Medical News, Nursing News | viewed 1,470 times | 3 Comments
New Island Hospital, one of Long Island‘s two remaining stand-alone community hospitals, is joining Catholic Health Services. The move, which will be formally announced Tuesday, will help protect the 203-bed nonprofit in Bethpage from the buffeting economic climate, said the... (Continue reading)
‘Fake’ Swine Flu Pandemic To Sell Vaccines? WHO Says “No Way”
GENEVA – The World Health Organization on Monday slammed as “irresponsible” critics who claim swine flu is a fake pandemic created for the benefit of drug companies. The U.N. health agency said the outbreak of a new strain of H1N1... (Continue reading)
Experts Want Lower Tylenol Doses To Prevent Death And Injury
Government experts called for sweeping safety restrictions Tuesday on the most widely used painkiller, including reducing the maximum dose of Tylenol and eliminating prescription drugs such as Vicodin and Percocet. The Food and Drug Administration assembled 37 experts to recommend... (Continue reading)
BREAKING: Nassau County’s First Swine Flu Related Death – Pregnant Woman
RIDGELY OCHS | AND MICHAEL FRAZIER. ridgely.ochs@newsday.com. michael.frazier@newsday.com 6:33 PM EDT, June 16, 2009 A young woman who had just given birth became the first apparent death from swine flu in Nassau County Tuesday, while New York City announced seven... (Continue reading)
Breaking: First Swine Flu Death(s) On Long Island Reported
RIDGELY OCHS | ridgely.ochs@newsday.com 5:33 PM EDT, June 15, 2009 Long Island has its first deaths from swine flu. Two Brookhaven residents died last week of the virus, Suffolk County Health Commissioner Dr. Humayun Chaudhry announced Monday. They were a... (Continue reading)
Three More Swine Flu Deaths Reported In NYC – Total Dead At 12
BY MICHAEL FRAZIER | michael.frazier@newsday.com 9:13 PM EDT, June 10, 2009 The number of deaths related to swine flu in New York City has reached double digits, with 12 deaths since the outbreak began in April in Queens, health officials... (Continue reading)
Plagues of New York – Health Crisis History of NYC (1790′s – Today)
By Tim Murphy | Published May 24, 2009 City health czar Tom Frieden, who’s leaving to run the Centers for Disease Control, expanded the idea of a “public-health emergency”—once the domain of deadly epidemics—to include societally borne ills like smoking... (Continue reading)
Mother Won’t Seek Treatment For 13 Year-Old Son With Cancer – Arrest Warrant Issued
I find this case interesting because, as nurses, we are faced with similar situations within our line of work. We see the benefit that medical treatment can provide our patients in terms of treating their diseases or symptoms and improving... (Continue reading)
13 New Swine Flu Cases In Nassau County
BY MATTHEW CHAYES | matthew.chayes@newsday.com 12:13 AM EDT, May 20, 2009 There are 13 new swine flu diagnoses in Nassau, the county health department announced late Tuesday night, bringing to 36 the county’s total number of confirmed cases. Because eight... (Continue reading)
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