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Argentina: Dead, Injured in Commuter Train Wreck
(BUENOS AIRES, Argentina) — Argentine rescue workers are responding to a fatal commuter train wreck. A two-level train slammed into another that had stopped...
75-year-old Japanese Man Dies After Hospitals Reject Him 36 Times
In January, a 75-year-old Japanese man called an ambulance after suffering from breathing problems. Instead of being saved, he died after 25 hospitals rejected...
The Hidden Dangers of Baby Bottles, Pacifiers and Sippy Cups
They’re synonymous with infancy, but baby bottles, pacifiers and sippy cups may not be as baby-friendly as parents would like. Between 1991 and 2010, about...
Debt Collectors in the E.R. and Delivery Room: Is Profit-Driven Medicine at a Breakpoint?
Imagine that you’ve brought your child to the emergency room and you’re revealing your most private health information to the hospital staff member at the desk,...
Enough to Make You Sick: Debt Collectors Hit Up Hospital Patients
Having a medical crisis that lands you in the hospital is stressful enough, but there’s a disturbing new trend that’s so bad, it makes the indignity of wearing a...
Doctors at Your Door: Are House Calls Making a Comeback?
An old idea is becoming new again. To increase access to high-quality health care for Medicare patients, a newly announced federal program called Independence at...
Are Japan's Emergency Rooms in Trouble?
In the late evening of Jan. 20, an elderly man bicycling in Itami, a town outside Osaka, Japan, collided with a motorcyclist. After receiving first aid from the...
Are Microchip Tags Safe?
You may not know what RFID stands for, but you're probably using the technology on a daily basis. RFID (that is, radio frequency identification) is in passports,...
Another Breakdown in New Orleans
For decades, everybody in New Orleans knew the drill, from police and emergency medical responders to the patients who managed to get there on their own. In a...
Minding the Emergency Rooms of Iraq
Dr. Ali Shuwetij cannot remember the last night no patients arrived in the emergency room of his small hospital in eastern Baghdad. Just two years ago, when the...
