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The state Medical Examining Board on Tuesday imposed no disciplinary action against a Greenwich Hospital anesthesiologist who in 2010 administered a nerve block on the wrong arm of a patient who was about to undergo a wrist arthroscopy. Though a board...

A 55-year-old Kerrville man accused of firing a shotgun at someone last summer received a year of probation Friday on a charge originally indicted as a second degree felony. Gary Lee Butler was arrested by sheriff's deputies on Aug. 13, shortly after it...

Nationwide drug shortages are affecting Sedgwick County emergency medical personnel who respond to 911 calls. "We're not in a crisis yet, but we intermittently teeter on the edge," Sabina Braithwaite, medical director of Sedgwick County Emergency...

In a hearing scheduled later this month in the Gallia County Common Pleas Courtroom, the court will decide if a Gallia County man accused of shooting and critically wounding a Gallipolis Police officer last September is fit to stand trial. Cole C....

When he died, Michael Jackson had a cocktail of anti-depressant and mood drugs in his system as well as a level of the anesthetic propofol typical of a patient undergoing major surgery. The revelation came during testimony Monday in the lawsuit Jackson'...

Michael Jackson had a long list of prescription drugs in his system when he died in the days before his anticipated comeback tour, a toxicologist with the Los Angeles County coroner's office testified Monday. Dan Anderson, the first witness called in...

In up-all-night, work-work-work America, a prescription medication like modafinil was sure to make major inroads from the get-go. And, whether you call this novel stay-awake drug by its commercial names -- Provigil and Nuvigil -- or by its plain-Jane...

Pale and emaciated, Michael Jackson lay on his bed in his $100,000-a-month Holmby Hills mansion looking like an end-stage cancer patient who had come home to die. The scene inside the house where Jackson lived as he prepared for a comeback tour was...

Q: What is catatonia? Can it be treated? A: Catatonia is a disorder of motor functioning. It was first described in 1874. By the turn of the 20th century, an influential psychiatrist named Emil Kraepelin had linked it to schizophrenia. As a result, it's...

Fatal drug overdoses have increased for the 11th consecutive year in the United States, new data show. According to a research letter published Tuesday from the National Center for Health Statistics, 38,329 people died of drug overdoses in the United...

SUPERGROW SALMON It grows superfast, it's genetically engineered, and it's safe to eat. Salmon is now poised to become the first genetically modified animal approved for the dinner table. Since 1995, a company called AquaBounty, based in Maynard, Mass.,...

Sleep is essential to good health, and a lack of it can lead to heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, weight gain, and diabetes. Yet 22 percent of Americans struggle with insomnia every night, according to the National Sleep Foundation, and people...