VA: 19 Deaths in Ill. Traced to Care
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Substandard care at a southern Illinois Veterans Affairs hospital may have contributed to 19 deaths over the past two years
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For more than a year, US civil rights investigators have been probing into the care delivered at Metro&#39;s Bordeaux Hospital, a nursing home where federal consultants have discovered a history
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CHALMETTE, La., Sept. 20 -- The owners of a nursing home where 35 patients died after Hurricane Katrina were indicted Wednesday on charges of negligent homicide and cruelty to the infirm.
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More than one in 10 patients admitted to hospital with a serious respiratory disorder is dead within 90 days, a study finds.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs has disclosed that information on more than half a million individuals and about 1.3 million non-VA physicians, both living and dead, is missing or might have been stolen. The information was stored on a portable hard drive that was being used by a VA employee at the department's facility in Birmingham, Ala.
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District health officials and lawyers with a federally funded advocacy group for the disabled are investigating the death of an adolescent girl who had been receiving long-term psychiatric treatment at the private, for-profit Riverside Hospital in Northwest.
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After two months of public hearings by the state panel investigating the Virginia Tech massacre, one thing has emerged most clearly: The state's system of dealing with the mentally ill is in almost desperate need of repair.
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The U.S. government posted mortality data on Thursday for the nation's thousands of hospitals for heart attacks and heart failure, in an effort to shed light on which hospitals provide the best care.
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Each year the influenza virus infects between 5 percent and 20 percent of our country&#39;s population, bringing 200,000 hospitalizations and more than 36,000 deaths.
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ATLANTA Emory University Hospital in Atlanta is telling more than 500 patients they may have been exposed to a fatal brain disease though the actual risk is &quot;remote.
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Deamonte Driver, the 12-year-old Prince George's County boy who died in February of an infection caused by an abscessed tooth, was one of more than 10,780 Medicaid-eligible Maryland children who had not seen a dentist in at least four years, a congressional analysis has concluded.
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A report finds a series of failings in the care of a psychiatric patient who killed a stranger on a beach.
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The Shipman Inquiry investigated the deaths in the early 1970s of 137 hospital patients, it has been revealed.
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ATLANTA -- Emory University Hospital in Atlanta is telling more than 500 patients they may have been exposed to a fatal brain disease, although the actual risk is &quot;remote.
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KINGSTON, NY Health officials in the Hudson Valley say a woman&#39;s death in November was caused by Cruetzfeldt-Jacob (KROYTS&#39;-felt JAY&#39;-kuhb) disease.
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RICHMOND, Jan. 25 -- The Virginia House of Delegates took a major step toward strengthening the state's mental health laws Friday as a panel passed legislation that would ease the standard by which mentally ill people can be involuntarily committed to hospitals, an issue raised after the Virginia...
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