Anesthesia caused girl's coma, death
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Lack of oxygen to the brain caused by anesthesia caused the death of a 5-year-old girl who never awoke from sedation during a visit to the dentist, the Cook County medical examiner's office said Thursday.
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An obese Massachusetts woman and her 8-month-old fetus died of complications 18 months after the woman had stomach-stapling surgery.
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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.
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The father of a young girl who died of exposure had knocked her unconscious because he was angry, then took her outside in subfreezing temperatures and left her there, police said before the man's arraignment Thursday.
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An accidental overdose is blamed for the death of a rapper whose lyrics mention an illegal drink with codeine as an ingredient.
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A third premature infant has died after being accidentally given an adult-sized dose of a blood thinner medication at a hospital last week.
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State regulators have suspended the license of a dentist whose 5-year-old patient fell into a coma in his office and later died.
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Heath Ledger died of an accidental overdose of painkillers, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medication and other prescription drugs, the New York City medical examiner said Wednesday. The cause of death was "acute intoxication by the combined effects of o...
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Public health officials are investigating why a 38-year-old woman died two weeks after undergoing gastric bypass surgery at Saint Anne's Hospital in Fall River. The hospital has stopped offering the surgery during the state probe and an internal review.
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The FDA links Botox to dangerous botulism symptoms in some users, and a few children given the drugs for muscle spasms have died.
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The family of a 17-year-old girl who died hours after her health insurer reversed a decision and said it would pay for a liver transplant plans to sue the company, their attorney said Friday.
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Abdominal pain in an adolescent girl can have a simple common explanation, but it cannot be taken for granted as a simple question.
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Donda West, Kanye West's mother, died of heart disease and "multiple postoperative factors" after plastic surgery, a deputy medical examiner said Thursday. But a coroner's report said the exact contribution these factors could have played in West's death following breast reduction, tummy tuck and liposuction couldn't be determined.
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French police investigate the death of a teenage girl who lost consciousness on a ride at Disneyland Paris.
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By the time she was 8 years old, J.B. had been hospitalized 200 times  and had undergone more than 40 operations, including the removal of most of her  intestines. K.C., a 2-year-old boy, was hospitalized more than 20 times due to  complications from asthma, severe pneumonia, mysterious infections, and sudden  fevers. His doctors were baffled and unable to determine the cause of these  illnesses. In a family with five children, one after another died of sudden infant  death syndrome (SIDS).
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A teenager dies from a suspected drugs overdose after apparently making a suicide pact with her best friend.
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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.