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Finley Crampton really shouldn't be here. Although his parents would have loved another child, they knew their baby could inherit a life-threatening kidney condition – and they couldn't take the risk. After all, their first son had died of the condition and the second was born with serious kidney damage. So when Finley's mother, Jodie Percival, became pregnant while on the ...

Abigail Lee Killian came into the world wailing, and with more hair than her mom has. It was the hair that Dr. Linda Moore, the obstetrician in charge of Brenda Killian's C-section, noticed first. Long dark hair, swirling in the clear amniotic fluid. And then, as the head emerged, a squall. "Before I could even suction out her mouth and nose," ...

Cleveland Clinic cardiac operating room nurse Adrienne Zurub was fired Jan. 22, two weeks after self-publishing "Notes from the Mothership," a memoir about her 26 years of experience at the world-famous heart clinic. Zurub, quoted in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, says she was fired after hospital administrators read her descriptions likening the clinic to a “prison environment” where nurses have ...

Users on Facebook, the ultra successful social networking site, virtually given birth to a new user-generated genre: the “Ten Reasons Why You Should Date an XYZ (name of your profession goes here) List.” [widget:448] Lists have been published on the site for Why You Should Date a Single Mom, a Geek, a Wrestler and hundreds of other categories. Not to be ...

Doctors in Oxford, England, say they kept a woman's body alive for two days after her death to allow her to give birth. The Daily Mail said Monday despite the fact professional ice skater Jayne Soliman was declared brain dead last week, doctors were able to keep her body alive long enough to deliver her unborn child via Cesarean section. David ...

When two medical flight helicopters collided near a Flagstaff, Ariz., hospital June 29, a promise died. It was a sacred promise from a Red Sox-loving father to his three young sons. On his 37th birthday in August, they would make the 2,100-mile pilgrimage to see the Red Sox play in Fenway Park. By all accounts, James W. Taylor Jr. was no ...

"Get out of classes for a week and get credit for it! Spend a sunny nine days in a five-star hotel with plush interior decorating and just minutes from the beach. Only $45 per night, all-you-can-eat breakfast included, exotic animals, jungles and marvelous tourist attractions thousands of years old, all for discount prices." [widget:464] Warning: Do not drink the water, ...

Despite the nursing shortage, Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital in Yakima, Washington, has no problem attracting a steady steam of job candidates. “We’ve never offered nurses a sign-on bonus,” says Kathy Franz, the hospital’s director of human resources. “Sign-on bonuses typically keep nurses in their jobs for two years. Our goal is to attract candidates who want to work here for other ...

Pastel colors cover the walls. Babies gurgle and cry. Parents coo and cradle them for the first time. Lives begin in the labor and delivery unit at Brandon Regional Hospital. • But in a storage room down the hall, it is quiet. There are bins stuffed with bonnets and booties, plastic bottles with "Holy Water" labels, doll clothes in pale shades ...

The photograph shows a young man in glasses posing behind a stem of lilies, his head tilted toward the camera and a half-smile playing at his lips. "What do we think of him?" Linda Kelly asked the class of Baltimore County high school students. "He looks kind of nerdy, don't you think?" One girl disagreed, saying he looked smart. Another student ...

CARBONEAR, Newfoundland, Jan. 8 - A Newfoundland woman who went to a hospital complaining of kidney pain was shocked when she gave birth to a healthy baby boy soon after. Juanita Stead, 36, was at a New Year's Eve party when the pain started and escalated to the point where her husband, Terry, took her to the hospital in the eastern ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — It's the kind of story that usually begins "once upon a time." A man who tends the elderly and sick for a living — bathing them, dressing them, helping them eat, pushing their wheelchairs — turns out to be a king. The story is set in Harrisburg, where Charles Wesley Mumbere works as a nurse's aide, and in ...

PARIS — Hospital officials in France say a 59-year-old woman has given birth to triplets after going abroad to get donated eggs. The Paris public hospital network says the two boys and a girl weighed between 2.09 and 2.4 kilograms (4 pounds 9 ounces and 5 pounds 5 ounces) and measured between 46 and 47 centimeters (18.1-18.5 inches). An official at ...

BERLIN - An American man who suffered from AIDS appears to have been cured of the disease 20 months after receiving a targeted bone marrow transplant normally used to fight leukemia, his doctors said. While researchers — and the doctors themselves — caution that the case might be no more than a fluke, others say it may inspire a greater interest ...

One thing is for sure, Dan Danielson is happy - and it's contagious. Danielson, a nurse in the cardiovascular unit at Winter Haven Hospital, talks about the thrill of going back to school to study nursing with such enthusiasm, it makes you want to crack a book. Here, Danielson, a Winter Haven resident, explains how he ended up trading his handgun ...

May 9--Quick quiz. Which of the following are warning signs of a stroke: Sudden confusion, numbness, headache, blurred vision or chest pain? If you answered "all the above," you're wrong (chest pain is a symptom of heart attack, not stroke). But don't feel too bad. Only one in six people surveyed in Florida and nationally could identify all the correct signs ...

Pediatric nurse Camille Echols knew better. She was well aware of the rules against getting emotionally attached to patients — both the written and unwritten ones. And she understood the logic behind them. But the head and the heart often don’t agree. And how do you explain these rules to an infant? Last summer, then 14-month-old Ashley was admitted to Children’s ...

Barack Obama has been a consistent champion of America’s nurses. As an Illinois state senator, Barack Obama chaired the Senate Committee on Public Health and helped lead efforts to protect Illinois nurses and improve the quality of health care throughout Illinois. As a U.S. senator, Obama serves on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee where he has continued ...

OCALA - Cassidy Krick was asked at school to compose a dream last Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The 10-year-old girl's dream wasn't of being a princess or having a room full of toys. "I wish my Mom was cancer free and didn't sleep so much," Cassidy wrote. Cassidy's mom, licensed practical nurse Una Krick, is a caregiver. She is likely ...

DURHAM, N.H. - A junior nursing student at the University of New Hampshire helped save a patient's life at Exeter Hospital earlier this month. UNH says Katherine Boucher of Lee was providing direct care to a post-operative patient during her medical-surgical nursing clinical at the hospital. She noticed before the patient did that he was bleeding heavily from his surgical site. ...