Some medical centers are taking a dramatic step to save mothers and babies after studies have shown too many doctors fail to follow guidelines for preventing pre-eclampsia, a potentially deadly pregnancy complication. These hospitals now recommend that all of their pregnant patients take low-dose aspirin. Studies show the drug is safe and can help prevent pre-eclampsia, a condition characterized by high blood pressure, and other pregnancy dangers.
A New Bern eye surgeon who is challenging North Carolina's laws that cap the kinds of medical services, facilities and equipment that can be offered in geographic regions of the state will take his case back to court this week. Jay Singleton, owner of Singleton Vision Center has been fighting for five and a half years to upend how health care industries have done business in this state for nearly half a century.
A former Cleveland Clinic neurologist is fighting to get his medical license back after the State Medical Board of Ohio permanently revoked it over how he allegedly examined female patients. 3News Investigates learned new details about the case after 41-year-old Dr. Zubair Ahmed, of Middleburg Heights, filed records for his appeal on Thursday in the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas. Last month, the Medical Board ordered the permanent revocation of his license and imposed a $20,000 fine. The case centers on complaints from three female patients who were examined by Ahmed between September 2021 and November 2022 at Cleveland Clinic's headache center, where he worked until his termination in June 2023.
A security guard shot and killed a knife-wielding man in the emergency room of Montefiore St. Luke's Cornwall Hospital Thursday night, police in Newburgh, New York, said. A woman was injured by the same bullet that killed the suspect. Police said Carlos Ortiz, 45, pulled a fire alarm around 11 p.m. and was acting disorderly, prompting security staff to confront him. That's when, according to police, the man pulled a knife, and attacked one of the guards. An armed security guard then shot him. Ortiz was later pronounced dead.
Olney Hamilton Hospital joins the nearly 60% of rural Texas hospitals that do not deliver babies, leaving large swaths of the state without a nearby place to give birth.