Daily battle for beds strands MGH patients
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Lisa Manley shifted uncomfortably on her narrow gurney in Bay 28 of the Massachusetts General Hospital emergency room, watching nurses and doctors rush past the open curtain of her cramped cubicle.
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Medical advances are forcing more patients and families to confront ever more grueling choices about living and dying.
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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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Out with stainless steel, in with copper? It might be a new hospital trend Â not for looks, but for germ-fighting.
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Three groups of health-care leaders are banding together to make hospitals a less dangerous place to get well.
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Shareholders might want to stay in bed this morning.
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Â· One patient a day dies waiting for a transplant Â· BMA backs idea, but other groups voice concerns
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Hospitals told to start special hiring; Health minister says funding is sign province is in &#39;high gear&#39; against C. diff. Quebec Order of Nurses president Gyslaine Desrosiers told a nursing convention yesterday
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A hospital apologises to a patient who had to give up his bed in the middle of the night to make way for another emergency.
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Legal action is launched over a row about whether a new hospital plans to leave enough space between beds to prevent the spread of infections.
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It has long been clear that chronic stress wreaks havoc on our health. Scientists have now found molecular signs of this harm. In a study of mothers of chronically ill children, the cells
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Yesterday was Health Care Day in North Carolina&#39;s race for the US Senate, as Democrat Erskine Bowles and Republican Richard Burr rolled out competing prescriptions to treat the nation&#39;s health-care system.
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With many adults having trouble sleeping, more couples are building separate bedrooms, or his-and-her wings.
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NEW YORK -- Susan Wezel had been committed to the city's hospital wards more than a dozen times in 10 years. Her psychosis was so deep and debilitating that she lost her career and her relationship with her son, as she refused to take her medication or follow treatment.
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A terminal leukemia patient must  have daily blood transfusions or die. A family begs doctors to  do everything possible to keep their elderly mother alive.  Parents cannot accept their newborn baby will not survive.
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CHICAGO -- A medical accreditation group says too many patients are waking up during surgery and hospitals need to do more to prevent the incidents.
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A new breed of doctor who treats patients only when they are hospitalized is becoming more prevalent in Boston-area hospitals, according to a study published yesterday.