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A 41-year-old woman was killed Friday in downtown Dallas when her vehicle was hit by a driver who ran a red light, police said.
No identities were immediately released.
According to investigators, the woman’s vehicle was hit at the intersection of Olive Street and Woodall Rodgers Freeway. She was taken to Baylor University Medical Center, where she died.
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Welsh had tried to quell the morning attacks of nausea and vomiting that faded as the day progressed. She ate only bland foods. She faithfully took the acid-reducing drugs prescribed by her doctor at the College of William and Mary student health center and later, a local gastroenterologist. She wasn’t pregnant and didn’t have an eating disorder, and doctors had found nothing physical that would explain her symptoms.
Maybe, she thought, the doctors Read the rest of this entry »

(NaturalNews) Voiding cystourethrography (VCUG) is an invasive medical procedure involving a catheter used to examine the bladder and urethra. This procedure is often used on children and can have a negative impact on the child including distress and pain. In 2005, an article appeared in the journal
about the role hypnosis plays in helping children go through the procedure. Doctors need children to be cooperative during the VCUG and researchers Read the rest of this entry »

Metropolitan Health Plan was started by Hennepin County in 1983 to finance health care primarily for poor and disabled people. It added Medicare Advantage programs in 2006 and a Medicare Advantage North Star fee-for-service plan in 2007.
The county-owned nonprofit is tiny, the sixth-largest of eight Minnesota HMOs. It serves about 20,000 clients, about 2 percent of the 890,000 Minnesotans in those plans.
Metropolitan Health Plan’s Medicare Advantage Read the rest of this entry »

CASES of the hospital bug Clostridium difficile among the over 65s at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital increased this summer – despite a significant fall in infections nationwide.
Latest figures released by the Health Protection Agency show there were 8,683 cases recorded in patients aged 65 years and over between April and June 2008 in England – an 18% drop on the previous
quarter.
Compared with the same period last year the number of Read the rest of this entry »

DELIVER ME demonstrates the doctors’ incredible connections with their
patients, to whom they can intimately relate. From high-risk pregnancies, to
adjusting to unexpected complications, to struggles with infertility; Drs.
Park, Hill and Bohn have been there personally and professionally. DELIVER ME
shows the doctors’ human sides, detailing the triumphs and struggles in their
personal lives-and how they lean on each other outside of the delivery Read the rest of this entry »

The National Transportation Safety Board is holding the first of four days of public hearings in Washington, D.C., today, focusing on how to
. The NTSB investigated nine fatal accidents involving medical helicopters during the past 12 months; 35 people were killed in all. “We have seen an alarming rise in the numbers of EMS accidents, and the Safety Board believes some of these accidents could have been prevented if our recommendations had been Read the rest of this entry »

By BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE –
WASHINGTON (AP) — A peanut processing plant in Texas run by the same company blamed for a national salmonella outbreak operated for years uninspected and unlicensed by government health officials, The Associated Press has learned.
The Peanut Corp. of America plant in Plainview never was inspected until after the company fell under investigation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, according to Texas Read the rest of this entry »

ape Cod’s only 24-hour emergency veterinary hospital filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday.
The Cape Animal Referral and Emergency Center, which listed $1 million to $10 million in debt in a court filing, plans to remain open round-the-clock while it attempts to reorganize its business operations.
CARE’s attorney, Nina Parker, attributed the privately owned hospital’s troubles to fewer pet owners being able to afford Read the rest of this entry »

Revisions to the Family and Medical Leave Act that go into effect Jan. 16 resolve some confusion over procedures that allow time off from work, but advocates for employers and employees say the changes fail to address other important issues.
The law affects 95 million workers, allowing job-protected time off to deal with serious health conditions, to care for a newborn or soldiers injured in the line of duty. About 7 million workers a year, or one Read the rest of this entry »