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State regulators faulted two hospitals in Southern California for medication errors that put patients at risk, including one who suffered a brain bleed after receiving repeated doses of blood thinner.
RaDonda L. Vaught was an American legal trial in which former Vanderbilt University Medical Center nurse RaDonda Vaught was convicted of criminally negligent homicide and impaired adult abuse after she mistakenly administered the wrong medication that killed a patient in 2017. [1]
A car plowed into a crowd at a Christmas market in eastern Germany on Friday, leaving five people dead and more than 200 injured, dozens of them critically.A 9-year-old boy was among those killed ...
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Actor Dennis Quaid, the narrator of the film, shares the story of how his 12-day-old twins both almost died from multiple overdoses of heparin, a blood thinning medication. This led Quaid to become a patient safety advocate, author of medical papers, [ 2 ] and teaming up with the producers of Chasing Zero to create the documentary.
Withdrawn in many countries because of risk of fatal bronchospasm. [2] Remoxipride: 1993 UK, others Aplastic anemia. [3] rhesus rotavirus vaccine-tetravalent (RotaShield) 1999 US Withdrawn due to risk of intussusception. [47] Rimonabant (Acomplia) 2008 Worldwide Risk of severe depression and suicide. [14] Rofecoxib 2004 Worldwide
2012: As of 2 November 2012 in the New England Compounding Center meningitis outbreak, 753 cases of fungal infection occurred with 64 deaths due to contaminated injectable medication. 2012: 2012 Pakistan fake medicine crisis; 2017: medical cannabis in California found to contain dangerous bacteria and fungi, causing at least one fatality. [19]
The big news in New Bedford this week was the opening of the new cannery. Find out what other headlines were most read. Fatal rollover, seafood cannery, scams: Top Stories this week