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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 ...

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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 ...