Liz Browning nudged open the unlocked door of her son’s Capitol Hill apartment and recoiled at the floor blanketed with garbage — drifts of unopened bills, mounds of cigarette butts, rotting food and feces.
“Hello … hello?” Her voice captured on a video taken in March sounds strained, wishing her 22-year-old son into view, and at the same time terrified of what she might find. “We brought you some food. …”
She was startled, as her son Marc Read the rest of this entry »
LOS ANGELES—A Los Angeles hospital that downsized last year amid allegations of shoddy patient care had more than 100 employees with arrest records—dozens more than previously reported.
The findings about Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital were released Monday in an auditor’s report to the county Board of Supervisors.
The county-run hospital closed last year to all but outpatient care amid allegations of shoddy care that caused Read the rest of this entry »
For more than 40 years it was an enormous source of pride and a beacon of humanity, shining its light from Galveston Island. Not only did Shriners Hospital for Children-Galveston treat its young burn patients completely free of charge, it kept on treating them until they turned 18.
It was the only children’s burn center in Texas, acclaimed internationally for its research and excellence of care. But as of last month, it is suspending operations Read the rest of this entry »
Working out is no fun. Just getting motivated enough to drive to the gym can be a struggle. But as a former active person I can appreciate the rewards of a good run. Feeling the weight of “good old father time” I broke down and committed myself to a three-month gym membership.
Whether it’s for the sake of New Year traditions, an epiphany or a simple vanity, January seems to be the hot month for many people to join a gym.
But with the current state Read the rest of this entry »
Twenty-nine patients were evacuated from a locked psychiatric unit after a fire broke out on the eighth floor of the Interfaith Medical Center in Brooklyn on Saturday night. It was the second fire at a New York City hospital in a week.
The one-alarm fire, which began about 9:40 p.m., was contained to one patient’s room, and no one was injured, fire and hospital officials said. The cause of the blaze was under investigation late Saturday night. Read the rest of this entry »
To meet its ambitious goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Berkeley is encouraging all 100,000 residents to join support groups to help individuals fight global warming.
Like Alcoholics Anonymous and Weight Watchers, the groups are part social, part confessional and partly about accountability.
“It does sound like AA,” said Timothy Burroughs, Berkeley’s climate action coordinator, who is helping to start the program. “But it’s in the context Read the rest of this entry »
If only, say experts in the field, the quest for cancer-preventing drugs were as simple as it sounds, or as readily embraced by physicians and patient advocates as it is by patients like Vincent Motyl. But the effort is a struggle, for several reasons.
Focus and funding are two. Compared with the effort to find drugs to cure and treat cancer, the search for preventive medicine “has been the stepchild” of research, motivating just a small corner Read the rest of this entry »
The AHIC Successor, Inc. was established in July 2008 as an
independent,public-private enterprise that will bring together the
public, non-profitand private sectors for the creation and use ofa
secure interoperable nationwide health information system.The AHIC
Successor willaddress opportunities for action identified by the AHIC
and is positioned to accelerate progress toward the development and
adoption Read the rest of this entry »
across the country have been quietly experimenting with a medication-free treatment aimed at healing injuries faster — a concentrated solution of the patient’s blood.
Pittsburgh Steelers’ Super Bowl star Hines Ward has tried it, as have other
players and some surgery patients in a few major cities.
Now some doctors are getting direct requests for injections of blood plasma, although the treatments — platelet-rich plasma (PRP) and autologous Read the rest of this entry »
LAS VEGAS—Police say a dispute over a shopping cart led to a fatal stabbing in the parking lot of a Las Vegas area discount store.
Las Vegas police Officer Barbara Morgan says the alleged assailant tried to ram the man with his vehicle and stabbed him in the arm and leg in the 6:45 p.m. Wednesday confrontation at a Wal-Mart store southeast of downtown.
The alleged assailant was arrested a short distance away.
The victim died at Sunrise Read the rest of this entry »