Human error blamed for 2 preemie deaths
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Two premature infants died after receiving adult doses of a blood thinner, a hospital said Sunday, blaming the incident on human error.
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NKANGE, Botswana -- Doctors noticed two troubling things about the limp, sunken-eyed children who flooded pediatric wards across Botswana during the rainy season in early 2006: They were dying from diarrhea, a malady that is rarely fatal here. And few of their mothers were breast-feeding, a practice...
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Infectious diseases kill a surprisingly large number of women during pregnancy, according to a study published on Tuesday that suggests many maternal deaths in the developing world are preventable.
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Two patients given inaccurate test results have died after a hospital failed to diagnose cancer in three other patients.
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About one million cribs designed by Pennsylvania-based Simplicity for Children have been recalled after the suffocation deaths of at least two children, the government said today.
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A hospital under scrutiny about patient safety admits care failures after the deaths of two elderly women.
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NEW YORK  - Preterm birth confers a considerable risk for long-term impairment, according to study published in the journal Pediatrics this month.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- A simple math error that led to a gross overstatement by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the number of obesity related deaths in the US is just the
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Deaths related to medication errors appear to rise sharply during the first few days of each month, suggesting that hectic pharmacies may be at least partly to blame, according to researchers.
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Researchers have identified more genetic mutations that appear to be linked with cot death.
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NAIROBI  - Giving birth in poor countries proves fatal for more than half a million women every year, or one every minute, the World Health Organisation said, warning preventable deaths have reached epidemic levels.
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Newborns should be screened for heart abnormalities to reduce the risk of cot death, researchers say.
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A Londonderry hospital is at the centre of a major probe into the sudden deaths of four newborn babies.
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Mistakes and other incidents in hospitals ranging from administrative errors to drug overdoses frequently endanger newborns and are often preventable, French researchers reported on Thursday.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- People in two communities are struggling to cope with the killing of an expectant mother and the snatching of her fetus.
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A recent study by researchers from the Bristol University was published in the journal Thorax. The report is likely to cause an alarm among pregnant women and mothers of newly born.
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According to a study in the Nov. 17 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, infections in extremely low birth-weight infants are associated with impaired cognitive development and physical growth problems.