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Abortion clinics lose licenses again
State health regulators suspended the licenses of several abortion clinics owned by Associates in OB/GYN Care for the second time after an employee with no health care license or certification gave a patient a drug to induce an abortion at the Baltimore...
Tags: Medical Research, General Practitioners, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Elkton, Medical Procedures and Tests
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ORs go high-tech, boosting safety, cost savings
South Florida operating rooms are getting a high-tech makeover, and patients are reaping the benefits, including less time under anesthesia, better protections against medical mistakes and potential cost savings. If the flat-screen TV monitors and the...
Tags: Nursing, Medical Procedures and Tests, Computing and Information Technology Industry, South Florida Hospital and Healthcare Association, Heart Surgery
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Waking up to anesthesia: What happens when you go under?
Premium Health News Servicehttp://www.whatdoctorsknow.com When you face surgery, you may have many concerns. One common worry is about going under anesthesia. Will you lose consciousness? How will you feel afterward? Is it safe? Every day, about 60,000 people nationwide have...Tags: National Institutes of Health, Medical Research, High Blood Pressure, Massachusetts General Hospital, St. Louis
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Ketamine: a potential rescue drug for depression takes a step forward
For years, physicians have been inching their way to a better understanding of how -- and how well -- the drug ketamine, a "twilight drug" used to sedate some patients before a painful procedure, can lift someone with severe depression almost...
Tags: Medical Research, General Practitioners, Social Sciences, Depression, LSD
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Jackson used vocal aid in concerts, choreographer says
Michael Jackson sometimes sang during concerts accompanied by his own recorded vocal track to help him perform the most physically strenuous numbers, the choreographer for what was to be his comeback shows in London testified Monday. What is known as...
Tags: Michael Jackson, Propofol (drug), Michael Jackson Comeback Tour (2009), Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Entertainment Events
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Coast Guard, PETA continue to spar over "goat camp"
The Virginian-PilotNo one disputes that "goat camp" is ugly. Ugly for the military trainees learning battlefield first aid. For the goats that serve as wounded patients. For the public who watched an undercover video released last spring of a Coast Guard session held in...Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, First Aid, Ethics, Religion and Belief
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Michael Jackson had several drugs in his system when he died
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'...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Entertainment, Medical Procedures and Tests, Prescription Drugs, Vitiligo
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LVH honors 34 at its Friends of Nursing celebration
HealthThirty four clinicians and seven care teams recently received awards at Lehigh Valley Health Network's Friends of Nursing Celebration. The program was attended by more than 725 colleagues and community members at SteelStacks in Bethlehem. The awards are... -
Q&A: Ask the pediatrician! Dr. Diana Blythe answers your questions about kids' health
Have a question for Dr. Blythe? Write to her at AskThePediatrician@tribune.com. For more information on Dr. Blythe, go to pediatricassociates.com.
April 29, 2013
Q: My 5-year-old daughter just had her adenoids and tonsils removed because of snoring...Tags: H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine, Egg Whites, Malaria, Blindness (movie), Cesarean Section
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After death, Maryland to limit where cosmetic surgeries are performed
Maryland is moving to toughen regulations on the fast-growing medspa industry — a move designed to narrow a "loophole" and prevent deaths such as one last year following a liposuction treatment at a Timonium facility. Regulations being discussed...
Tags: General Practitioners, Health and Medical Professionals, Body Shaping, Timonium, Plastic Surgery Centers
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Health officials consider increasing plastic surgery center oversight
Maryland health officials may ask state lawmakers for permission to oversee plastic surgery centers, a move inspired in part by the death of a Lochearn woman after liposuction.
The state health department had already been considering whether to ask...Tags: Insurance, Montgomery County (Maryland), Laws, Plastic Surgery Centers, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Pain doctors on board with crackdown
Kokomo Tribune, Ind.Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller is unleashing a major crackdown on the state's medical community, and a spokesman for Indiana's pain management doctors says it's about time. "It basically just got out of control, to where we're prescribing six...Tags: OxyContin (drug), Methadone (drug), Prescription Drugs, Pharmaceuticals, Pain
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