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Rise in prescription drug deaths renews call for Florida registry
About 150 people gathered at St. Petersburg College recently to promote a statewide registry that would track every...
Nabbing infections with technology
Hershey (PA) Medical Center is now using a sophisticated computer program that serves as a watchdog for infection...
Texas hospitals using a new strategy to ease crowded ERs
In Houston, the ER overcrowding problem has been the subject of several studies calling for revisions to the emergency...
Northern Idaho medical centers await inspections
Some healthcare centers are having to delay hiring and some patients are having to travel longer distances because...
Iowa database will help ID addicts who 'doctor shop'
By early March, Iowa regulators plan to offer a centralized computer system that will track purchases of most kinds of...
Star student's suicide prompts precedent-setting suit
A Colorado physician who used the Internet to prescribe an antidepressant to a Stanford University student he'd never...
Dennis Quaid settles with Cedars-Sinai over infants' health scare
Dennis Quaid and his wife Kimberly reached a settlement with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for $750,000 over a medication...
U.S. emergency rooms find ways to fix what ails them
Hospital emergency rooms are facing their own epidemic: Long waits. Patients spending hours or days on beds in ER...
Deaths raise questions in Indian hospital
Since the beginning of 2006, the pediatric department at New Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences had...
Sleek hospital plan roils New York City
St. Vincent’s Hospital in Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City is seeking a sleek new upgrade. The...