A Southern California doctor was found guilty of performing unnecessary vein procedures and giving his patients contaminated but repackaged single-use catheters. Following a six-day trial, a federal grand jury convicted Dr. Donald Woo Lee, 54, of Temecula on seven counts of health care fraud and one count of adulterating a medical device, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a news release.
Megan Coady was told it could take up to six months to see the doctor, and first, she would have to apply. She did, answering questions about her personal and family health history, demographic information and insurance provider, then mailing the application to the Lansing internist's office that sent it to her.
The state of California will pay $3.85 million to researchers at the University of California, Davis, to develop the nation’s first program to train health care professionals to help their patients reduce firearm-related injury and death, university officials announced Tuesday.
Sometime after 2 a.m. on January 12, 2016, Aja Newman roused herself from her hospital gurney and made her way down the long hallway to the bathroom. She had checked in at Mount Sinai’s Emergency Department more than four hours earlier with severe shoulder pain. Aja is a practical person and had been reluctant at first. “Emergency rooms are for emergencies is what I was taught,” she says.
Montefiore Health System announced today it will close its Mount Vernon Hospital and replace it with a new $41 million emergency and ambulatory facility. The construction and opening of the new emergency care center on Sandford Boulevard will result in the closing of the 121-bed Mount Vernon Hospital sometime late next year, the hospital system said.
A critical drug that serves as the backbone of treatment for most childhood cancers, including leukemias, lymphomas and brain tumors, has become increasingly scarce, and doctors are warning that they may soon be forced to consider rationing doses.