Groundbreaking Pediatric Heart Surgeon Commits Suicide
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Dr. Jonathan Drummond-Webb, chief of pediatric and congenital heart surgery at Arkansas Children&#39;s Hospital, has died in an apparent suicide.
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hospital, and his doctors say he would have risked a &quot;substantial&quot; heart attack without the operation. an operation, Chief of Cardiology Allan Schwartz of New York-Presbyterian Hospital told a news conference on Monday.
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A young boxer who was taking part in the US boxing reality TV programme The Contender commits suicide.
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Anna Nicole Smith's 20-year-old son died from a lethal combination of methadone and two antidepressant drugs, a U.S.-based pathologist who conducted a private autopsy said Wednesday.
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One of the conjoined year-old twin German girls who underwent separation surgery has died, a spokeswoman for the Johns Hopkins Children's Center said early Thursday.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark.  - Dr. Jonathan Drummond-Webb, a  pioneer in surgery to implant artificial heart pumps in  children, died of an apparent suicide over the weekend at the  age of 45, hospital officials said Monday.
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A Romanian church leader who was exposed as a collaborator a week ago dies of a heart attack.
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Giving a bear hug to his surgeon and a thumbs-up to other hospital staff, a 14-year-old boy went home for Christmas -- the first child to receive a new heart after relying on a newly developed miniature heart pump.
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When Dr. Robert Wachter&#39;s wife underwent surgery in October to donate a kidney to a friend, her chief anxiety, he said, was &quot;the possibility that she might be killed by a medical mistake.
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A woman who underwent surgery for a brain aneurysm was mistakenly injected with a highly toxic antiseptic solution and died, hospital officials have admitted.
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Dr. Jonathan Drummond-Webb, a nationally known heart surgeon who killed himself the day after Christmas, wrote a suicide note in which he complained "The world is not ready for me."
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Lee Jong-Wook, the director-general of the World Health Organisation (WHO), has died from a blood clot on the brain after emergency surgery at the weekend, the UN agency confirmed at the opening of its annual assembly.
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A doctor says the death of baby, allegedly poisoned by salt, could have been an accident.
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The orchestra conductor of Southern  California's landmark Crystal Cathedral committed suicide early  on Friday, shooting himself inside a barricaded storage room.
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A little girl just a week shy of her second birthday has become the youngest person in the United States ever to receive a "piggyback" heart transplant, a procedure that involved implanting a second heart into her tiny chest.
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A doctor who gave drugs to two terminally ill babies, hastening their deaths, "felt in his heart" the children were suffering.
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Just days before his death, the Brooklyn middle-school student who died from an antibiotic-resistant staph infection had visited a hospital with skin lesions and was treated with allergy medicine, according to the family's lawyer, Paul Weitz.