By EMILY FREDRIX, AP Business Writer Fri Mar 21, 6:49 PM ET MILWAUKEE - After being laid off from her job as an events planner at an upscale resort, Jo Ann Bauer struggled financially. She worked at several lower-paying jobs, relocated to a new city

By ALICIA A. CALDWELL, Associated Press Writer Fri Mar 21, 4:35 AM ET EL PASO, Texas - At least 15 military service members or their relatives are believed to have been infected with hepatitis by a nurse suspected of stealing their painkillers during s

Sat Mar 22, 8:25 AM ET CHICAGO - Two sisters from Virginia sold their Illinois-shaped corn flake on eBay Friday night for $1,350. "We were biting our nails all the way up to the finish, seeing what would happen," said Melissa McIntire, 23. "Th

(CBS) William Doyle survived his open-heart surgery - but was almost killed, days later, by a hospital mistake, CBS News correspondent Wyatt Andrews reports. "At the time, I very easily could have died from this infection," Doyle said. It was a ch

Reporting complaints about medication administration to state inspectors led to the termination of Ellen Ann Mull, RN, BSN, MSN, from Haywood Regional Medical Center in Clyde, North Carolina. She has now filed a legal complaint against her former employer

Tuberculosis was found in a school in Southern California. The government brought over nurses to test most of the students for TB. All of the students are paranoid. Personally, I think the media is blowing it way out of proportion.

March 20, 2008 — A new report released by the Alzheimer's Association includes new estimates that show the lifetime risk for Alzheimer's disease (AD) is 17% in women and 9% in men who live to age 55 years. The figures mean that 10 million of the 78 mill

"A Sacramento psychiatric hospital that gave a patient 10 times the suggested dose of the wrong medicine was fined $25,000 Thursday, joining one other psychiatric Institution and nine hospitals facing penalties statewide".

While the FDA considers limiting sodium, it's up to you to curb your craving A pinch here, a dash there, could salt really be so bad? Actually, sodium is shaking out to be the next diet villain. The average American consumes 50 percent more sodium â

Accident involving 6-year-old led to federal legislation to make pools safer MINNEAPOLIS - A 6-year-old girl whose intestines were partially sucked out by a swimming pool drain, leading to tougher safety legislation, has died, her family's attorney said

Botox may be best known as the injection of choice for smoothing out wrinkles, but a Canadian physician has expanded its use to help save the life of a child born with a rare but devastating birth defect. The case involved a Montreal infant born with C

SACRAMENTO – Nurses at UC Davis Medical Center will vote later this week on a tentative contract agreement reached by the California Nurses Association and the University of California. According to a statement issued Monday by the CNA, the contract

A new report on health care estimates that, on average, each stay in a Canadian hospital by a patient costs almost $7,000. The Canadian Institute for Health Information report, released Tuesday, offers a breakdown on costs by medical condition, and fin

The South Dakota Center for Nursing Workforce says hospitals in the state are bracing for a shortage of more than 2,000 nurses in coming years. That's leaving hospitals trying to figure out how to meet the aging baby boomer population's health needs.

The B.C. Nurses Union won a significant victory in a court ruling released Tuesday, dealing a blow to the Attorney General's efforts to quash a long-running battle over how medicare is enforced in the province. Justice Stephen Kelleher, in a 27-page r

'Waste' of midwives and nurses without jobs By Kate Devlin, Medical Correspondent Last Updated: 2:53am GMT 20/03/2008 Hundreds of nurses and midwives are still struggling to find an NHS post six months after qualifying, figures show. The lo

Eight out of 10 Americans are concerned about access to care for seniors and baby boomers because of government cuts to Medicare reimbursements, according to a new public poll released today by the American Medical Association (AMA). On July 1, Medicare p

A German retiree is taking a hospital to court after she went in for a leg operation and got a new anus instead, the Daily Telegraph is reporting. The woman woke up to find she had been mixed up with another patient suffering from incontinence who was

Shocking but true: Earlier this week, 800 small dogs were seized from a filthy triple-wide trailer in Tucson, Ariz., where the elderly residents were overwhelmed trying to care for the animals. Also this week, Kentucky police found 117 starving and diseas