District Resorts to Court To Enforce Inoculations
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Education officials in the District said Friday that they would refer the cases of 434 students who lack proof of immunization to the city's Family Court, where the children's parents and guardians could be charged with child neglect.
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Anne Arundel County school officials have sent letters home and urged better hygiene after reports of bacterial skin infections among more than two dozen students. But officials say there is no outbreak and no need to panic.
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The death of a Prince George's County boy this week from an infection that started with an abscessed tooth has spurred lawmakers to demand better dental care for poor children and has prompted a deluge of calls to local dentists for advice and appointments.
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Supporters and detractors of a plan to bring baseball to the District are lining up to make their case before the D.C. Council.
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The Montgomery County Health Department will start today with a series of flu shot clinics that will target - and demand proof of - those at high risk from influenza.
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Public schools in Mount Vernon are being disinfected after a worker and a student showed signs of an antibiotic-resistant staph infection, authorities said.
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The case of a jet-setting tuberculosis patient might soon shift from the hospital wards to the courts. The patient, Andrew Speaker, an Atlanta personal injury attorney, could sue the federal government for being quarantined on the basis of federal regulations that some scholars see as unconstitutional.
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The District could become the first jurisdiction in the country to license pharmaceutical sales representatives, a move a council member says would help protect doctors and patients from disreputable agents who help drive up the costs of prescription drugs.
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Quebec hospitals have been ordered to isolate patients who are infected with C. difficile. But according to some patients, that isn&#39;t happening fast enough.
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A Victorian aged care home has been sanctioned after claims by staff that it covered up a gastroenteritis outbreak and endangered the health of 54 patients.
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The case before the US federal court of claims in Washington will reignite the controversy over the triple vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella.
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Hospitals across the Washington region are mounting increasingly aggressive defenses against a virulent bacterium resistant to antibiotics that turns seemingly minor skin abrasions, cuts and sores into serious, even life-threatening, infections.
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By Jennifer Smith, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Dec. 8--A Plainview Water District lawsuit over the looming threat a fuel spill allegedly poses to drinking water can proceed even though the district's wells have yet to be contaminated, a State Supreme Court judge has ruled.
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Doctors prescribing opioids in doses that seems high to narcotics agents and prosecutors are at risk of a trial. And once in the courtroom, anything can happen.
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The Martin County Health Department is offering flu vaccines to the public while supplies last. To be eligible, recipients must fall into one of the high-risk categories: those aged
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The political battle in Maryland to limit medical malpractice lawsuits is also underway in Virginia and the District, where doctors and hospitals are pressing for greater restrictions on who can sue for a medical mistake and how much can be collected.
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Health reports show it would have been difficult for Desert Vista High School students to contract bacterial meningitis from a fellow student who is recuperating at an area hospital.