The First Responders Children’s Foundation sets up emergency grant program for families of EMTs, police officers, firefighters and public safety personnel
The First Responders Children’s Foundation COVID-19 Emergency Response Fund has been established to provide emergency grants to first responder families enduring financial hardship due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “As More...
athenahealth rolls out help for medical community during COVID pandemic
athenahealth, Inc., a leading provider of network-enabled services for ambulatory and enterprise customers nationwide, is activating its network to help healthcare providers quickly make informed decisions and ease More...
SCOTUS leds Arkansas abortion law stand requiring emergency care options when abortion drugs administered
The U.S. Supreme Court issued an order Tuesday that allows a 2015 Arkansas law requiring individuals who prescribe abortion drugs to have a partnership with a local doctor who agrees to treat emergency situations More...
Texas Family Sues Emergency Room after 4-Year-Old’s Death
A Keller, Texas family is suing a local emergency room after their four-year-old died. The family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit related to the 2016 incident. In August 2016, Brian Steinborn found his four-year-old More...
As Chicago shootings, murders continue city rolls out ‘Stop the bleed’ campaign
As a man and a woman were killed in separate shootings on the Far South Side and 13 other people, including a 14-year-old boy, were injured in attacks in Chicago between Saturday and Sunday mornings, the latest More...
Shutting down Emergency Units throughout the NHS
In the UK, accident and emergency units, or A&E departments, serve a vital purpose in the overall health care system for patients of all ages and experiencing the full range of medical conditions. As the initial More...
Johnson & Johnson Under Fire Again for Defective Hernia Mesh Product
Johnson & Johnson’s subsidiary Ethicon is under fire once again for its defective hernia mesh product Physiomesh. A man from Illinois has filed a lawsuit against the company after he experienced serious More...
Liberal writer Danielle Campoamor says driving too far for an ‘abortion vacation’ is ‘oppressing’ women
The pro-choice message used to be “safe, legal and rare,” but in 2016 the focus is keeping any limitation away from abortion on-demand and in a new column for Bustle, pro-abortion writer Danielle More...
Nat Geo’s ‘Breakthrough’ dives into cyborg tech and the secrets of the brain
National Geographic’s new 6-part mini-series Breakthrough started off with The Future of Fighting Pandemics before focusing on less frightening topics: More Than Human and Decoding the Brain in episode More...
Nursing Home Neglect: The Mask of Compassion
Attorneys know that nursing home neglect takes place more often than nursing home administrators care to admit. Put a loved one in a nursing home, and the first thought that inevitably comes to mind is whether it More...
Alabama judge rules abortion doctors to have hospital privilege is ‘undue burden’
The Alabama law that required doctors performing abortions to have privileges at local hospitals was ruled unconstitutional. Judge Myron Thompson declared Monday that the law forced an “undue burden” on women More...
Two more abortion providers close, unable to get admission privileges for emergency care
Two Texas abortion providers said they will shut down this week, saying their doctors were unable to get admitting privileges to nearby hospitals as required under new bill enacted by the state last year. Whole More...
Meng Weixin, Chinese boy recovering well following his ‘giant feet’ surgery
The first surgery on a 14-year-old Chinese boy for his deformed feet succeeded on Thursday in Shanghai. Meng Weixin suffers from a rare disease that causes his feet to swell and his toes to twist. Weixin cannot More...
Chinese woman, Li Hongfang, has 70 facial tumors removed, transformed into a new woman
A Chinese mother who was left horrifically disfigured by 70 large tumours growing on her face can now after a hospital carried out the transforming surgery for free. Li Hongfang, age 40, was shunned in public More...
Man undergoes surgery to remove steel bristle from bbq brush
A man underwent emergency surgery after a steel bristle from a barbecue grill brush got into his steak became lodged in his intestinal tract. Adam Wojtanowicz went to Tacoma General Hospital after antibiotics and More...
2010 Weirdest News Stories: Pierced cats, tattooed eyeballs, Shortest man Record
2010 delivered its fair share of freaky stories. From the “Joking Disease” to “A Zombie Christmas” to a grandmother who tried to sell her grandson and a 4-year-old sued for killing an elderly More...
Chinese man, Lin Kong uses scissors to clean teeth and swallows them
Chinese surgeons have saved a man’s life after he accidentally swallowed a pair of nail scissors he was using to clean his teeth. The photo of the scissors lodged in the man’s throat went viral across More...
