'Cuckoo's Nest' hospital cited by feds
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Mental patients at the Oregon State Hospital, the setting for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," were exposed to threats ranging from infectious outbreaks to patient-on-patient assaults, according to a Justice Department report released Wednesday.
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By JOHN P. KELLY  KINGSTON - Improperly stored chemicals used in X-ray processing at South Shore Medical Center were blamed for sending 11 people to the hospital with dizziness and nausea yesterday, a Kingston Board of Health member said.
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Britney Spears got her stay in a psychiatric ward extended Sunday, as doctors decided to keep her hospitalized an additional 14 days, someone close to the pop star told the Associated Press.
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Troubled pop singer Britney Spears' hospital stay for psychiatric evaluation has been extended for two weeks, according to media reports on Monday.
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Britney Spears' stay in a psychiatric ward was extended for two weeks under a section in state law that allows patients to be kept for medical treatment if they are found to be gravely disabled or a danger to themselves or others, a person close to the pop star told The Associated Press.
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Abuse and neglect was so rampant at a South Side nursing home, two former employees dubbed it &quot;the house of death, terror and filth,&quot; a whistleblower lawsuit unsealed Monday alleged.
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A firm providing phone and TV services to hospital patients has been accused of pressurising vulnerable people.
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Mental health inpatients have to put up with poor and untherapeutic conditions on the wards, a survey finds.
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Hospitals hit back at claims of poor hygiene standards highlighted in a TV documentary.
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Investigators have verified 14 cases of abuse by a nightshift nurse who told police he abused nearly 100 patients at health care centers since the 1980s, authorities said Thursday.
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LOS ANGELES -- Reviewers from a national accrediting agency are in Los Angeles for unannounced inspections of four hospitals run by Los Angeles County, it was reported Tuesday.
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Serious failings in healthcare provision at the Yarl's Wood asylum centre are highlighted in a report.
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ROCKVILLE, Ind. -- Two staff members at a nursing home abused mentally ill residents, encouraging a woman to expose her breasts and a man to hit himself in his genitals, a state agency said.
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US security officials are warning that veterans&#39; hospitals in the United States could be targeted by terrorists. A bulletin sent out late Thursday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department
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The hospital treating a former Russian spy said Tuesday radioactive substances might have been used in the poisoning of Col.Comment
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In many respects, Michael Moore's new movie, "Sicko," is like a trial for those who oversee health care in the United States. The industry &#151; doctors, drug makers, hospitals, insurers &#151; is charged with greed and putting personal interests above patients'. Moore heard from thousands of people who had maddening and heartbreaking brushes with this system.
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Many mental health wards in Britain may do more harm than good and on some, patients are subjected to violence, verbal abuse and sexual harassment, according to special reports in the Lancet on Friday.