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A flash fire at Formosa Plastics in Calhoun County seriously injured at least 12 workers Thursday afternoon at the plant. Emergency officials from several agencies converged on the chemical plant, 102 Pease St., in Point Comfort about 2 p.m. after the fire ignited. Five of the wounded workers were transported to Citizens Medical Center in Victoria – four by ambulance and one by private vehicle – with varying injuries after the fire. Three [...] AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Ohio police say a 66-year-old man entered the intensive care unit of Akron General Medical Center and shot his 65-year-old wife while standing at her bedside. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_HOSPITAL_SHOOTING?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-08-05-02-30-57 CUMMING, Ga. (CBS Atlanta) — A cancer survivor is battling for her life after losing her hands and feet to a rare bacterial infection that is found primarily in the saliva of dogs. According to the Gwinnett Daily Post, Hannah Rinehart, 32, has been in the intensive care unit at Northside Hospital in Cumming, Ga., since July 3 after suffering a 103-degree fever. On July 26, Rinehart had her hands and feet [...] 23 out of 58 newborns in intensive care at East Tennessee Children’s Hospital in Knoxville are addicted to drugs The storm clouds hanging over the global economy darkened yesterday as a raft of data showed output slowing around the world. Bleak news from the United States and China added to the gloom in Britain and the eurozone as confidence drained away. ‘The world economy is in the intensive care unit now,’ said Chilean finance minister Felipe Larrain in a sign that the pain is being felt around the globe. Bleak news: Dark [...] Lana Kuykendall’s infection grew one quarter of an inch in an hour A new mother is fighting for her life after she was infected with a flesh-eating bacteria that sent her back to the hospital just 13 hours after she [...] American service members risk their lives in the line of duty so that other people may live and enjoy freedoms worth fighting for.
That sobering truth is all the more real in the intensive care unit of the U.S. Army’s Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany, where combat casualties from Afghanistan, and previously Iraq, are flown in enroute to the U.S. Gregg Zoroya at USA Today reports that in the last six years, 36 mortally wounded troops [...] (Reuters) – Former Vice President Dick Cheney was recovering on Saturday after undergoing heart transplant surgery, a once risky procedure whose survival rates have improved over the years. The 71-year-old Republican, who wielded unprecedented power as vice president during the George W. Bush administration’s war on terrorism, was in the intensive care unit at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Virginia. Cheney, who has suffered five heart attacks, the first at age [...] Former Vice President Dick Cheney received a heart transplant on Saturday, his office announced.
A statement from the former vice president’s office said Cheney is now recovering in the Intensive Care Unit of Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Va., outside of Washington.
The statement said Cheney had been on the transplant list for 20 months and did not know the identity of the donor.
“Although the former Vice President and his family [...] AP Photo/Matt Barnard CLAREMORE, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma hospital that failed to build a women’s health center in honor of Garth Brooks’ late mother must pay the country singer $1 million, a jury has ruled. Jurors on Tuesday evening ruled that the hospital must return Brooks’ $500,000 donation plus pay him $500,000 in punitive damages. The decision came in Brooks’ breach-of-contract lawsuit against Integris Canadian Valley Regional Hospital in Yukon. Brooks [...] SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Two nurses in a Utah hospital’s intensive care unit were fired this week for taping a patient’s mouth shut and laughing about it, hospital officials said Friday. Penny Artalejo was admitted to Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo on Dec. 17 with nausea and anxiety from taking medication for chronic neck pain, her daughters told KSL (http://bit.ly/tbVNuS ). Artalejo’s daughter, Brittany Bilson, told the television station that [...] Richard Lee for The New York TimesA board in the surgical intensive care unit at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y., reminds people to sanitize their hands. Beeps and blinking lights are the constant chatter of a hospital intensive care unit, but at the I.C.U.’s in North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y., the conversation has some unusual contributors. Two L.E.D. displays adorn the wall across from each nurses’ station. [...] New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi was on Friday recovering in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a US hospital where she underwent successful surgery for an undisclosed ailment.The party today issued a brief statement that 64-year-old Gandhi underwent a surgery on August 4 and the surgeon has indicated that the surgery has been successful. At present, Gandhi is in ICU, a statement by Congress [...] A Naperville man released from a hospital Thursday repeatedly stabbed his mother with a 6-inch butcher knife after she offered to make him a sandwich, prosecutors and police said Friday. Bail for Alexander R. Georg, 27,was set Friday at $1.5 million. Georg is charged with attempted first-degree murder, aggravated battery and aggravated domestic battery. The incident took place about 2:15 p.m. Thursday at the residence [...] Horrifying … moment medics dropped 73-year-old Janet Richardson into Arctic Ocean A STRICKEN grandmother sprawls helplessly in the freezing Arctic Ocean – after paramedics DROPPED her during an attempted mercy mission. Brit Janet Richardson, 73, was being moved to a rescue boat after falling ill on her cruise ship when she slipped into the -3°C waves off Norway. She was last night fighting for life in a UK hospital.
Nightmare … Janet, [...] A woman went boating one Sunday taking with her some cans of coke The autopsy concluded she died of Leptospirosis. |
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