In two linked studies, including more than 29,000 patients, saline was associated with a greater risk of a composite endpoint including death, new renal replacement therapy, or persistent renal dysfunction, the investigators reported at CHEST, the annual meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians.
DURHAM, N.C. — A lawsuit that moved recently from state to federal court seeks to call Duke University Health System and Lincoln Community Health Center to account for a woman’s death in early 2015 from embolisms that went undiagnosed until her autopsy.
LAS VEGAS — Dr. Kevin Menes had prepared for this moment, when terror came to his city and his hospital, but once it arrived he couldn’t believe it was true.
The government has reached a $2.3 million settlement with survivors of a Marine veteran who died of a drug overdose at the troubled Wisconsin Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
A husband and wife in their 70s are dead after an incident at an Ontario hospital that ended in a police shooting late Friday night, the province's police watchdog says.