Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Health. Home & Garden
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]
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.
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]
On September 28, 1982, 12-year-old Mary Kellerman was hospitalized after consuming a capsule of Extra Strength Tylenol; she died the next day. [1] [2] On September 29, six other individuals consumed contaminated Tylenol, [1] including Adam Janus (27), Stanley Janus (25), and Theresa Janus (20), who each took Tylenol from a single bottle.
The post Flu Or Fatal: People Are Sharing Their Wildest Misdiagnosis Stories first appeared on Bored Panda. Even the most skilled, sharp, and knowledgeable doctors make mistakes from time to time. ...
The trial made national headlines; Miller's life was profiled on A&E American Justice, Investigation Discovery's Deadly Women and on the Oxygen Channel's true crime series Snapped. [13] The case was the subject of a book, Fatal Error, by Kansas City Star reporter Mark Morris and Paul Janczewski. [14]
“The New York Times story made it less likely than ever that legitimate, knowledgeable, passionate physicians get involved with treating addiction with buprenorphine or anything. And that is a tragedy of the story,” Newman said. Overdosing on bupe is “almost impossible,” according to Dr. Seppala of Hazelden.