Tag: hospitals
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Christy Giles and Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola case: Digital evidence leads to clues in deaths of friends dumped outside LA hospitals by masked men
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This story originally aired on April 15, 2023. Hilda Marcela Arzola-Plascencia, a doctor in Durango, Mexico, was used to handling medical emergencies. But nothing prepared her for the call she got about her eldest daughter and namesake Hilda Marcela Cabrales. Dr. Hilda Marcela Arzola-Plascencia: I received the phone call in the middle of the night…
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For transgender youth in crisis, hospitals sometimes compound the trauma
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Four days of waiting in UNC Hospitals’ psychiatric emergency room left Callum Bradford desperate for an answer to one key question. With knots in his stomach, the transgender teen asked: “Will I be placed in a girls’ unit?” Yes. The answer provoked one of the worst anxiety attacks Callum had ever…
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Medics And Patients, Including Babies, Stranded As Battles Rage Around Gaza Hospitals
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KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Battles between Israel and Hamas around hospitals forced thousands of Palestinians to flee from some of the last perceived safe places in northern Gaza, stranding critically wounded patients, newborns and their caregivers with dwindling supplies and no electricity, health officials said Monday. With Israeli forces fighting in the center…
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A hidden system of exploitation underpins US hospitals’ employment of foreign nurses
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This series was produced in partnership with the nonprofit newsroom Type Investigations, with support from the Gertrude Blumenthal Kasbekar Fund, the Puffin Foundation, and the Pulitzer Center. TALLAHASSEE, Florida — When Rachel started her job as a nurse in the internal medicine unit at Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare last year, it felt like the realization of…
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Five helicoptered to hospitals after home explosion in New Jersey | New Jersey
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Five people were hospitalized after an explosion at a New Jersey home on Friday night, police said. The house in West Milford was heavily damaged by the explosion about 9 pm, the local police department said in a statement. A sixth person at the scene refused additional medical treatment, police said. Rich Poplaski, the West…
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Masking up in hospitals didn’t stop COVID spread, U.K. study finds
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In a world moving on from the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals and medical offices have been the last bastions of mandatory masking. But new research finds that in communities where pandemic precautions have been largely abandoned, mask mandates in healthcare settings do little to prevent coronavirus infections among patients. The findings, presented on Thursday at the…
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1 dead, 8 taken to hospitals in Chicago high-rise fire
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Chicago authorities said one person has died and eight others were taken to hospitals Wednesday as firefighters responded to a high-rise apartment building fire on the city’s South Side, battling flames that leaped up 10 floors as snow fell. (Jan. 25) Source link