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A common virus traditionally viewed as mild killed at least five U.S. infants last year, government health officials said Thursday. The five deaths mark the first time an infection was found to be fatal, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Tens of thousands of children get the virus each year, but it seldom causes illness, and then usually ...

Hackensack. The year was 1943, and the nation was facing a massive nursing shortage because of World War II, which drew many nurses into the armed forces. In an effort to replenish the ranks, Congress created the Cadet Nurse Corps, a federal program that offered scholarships and stipends to applicants for nursing school. The final class was admitted in late 1945, ...

Blue Shield of California Foundation (BSCF) today announced the award of $12.3 million in grants to nonprofit organizations across California. Of that, $8.1 million will be used to increase access to health care and coverage for uninsured Californians, $1.3 million to improve patient care through health technology, and $2.8 million toward ending domestic violence. The grants bring total giving by BSCF ...

Two doctors and a pharmacist are among four suspects accused of running a secret drug operation with $10 million in assets and a street reputation for satisfying a junkie's fix, authorities said. "Basically this place was a pill mill," said Ralph Holiman, Drug Enforcement Administration agent. Dr. Thomas T. Trieu is accused in an indictment of dispensing powerful pain medicine without ...

Limiting the hours of medical residents does not negatively affect outcomes in critically ill patients in intensive care units, U.S. researchers said. In fact, there was a decrease in mortality among intensive care unit patients in both teaching and non-teaching hospitals after work-hour limitations were implemented across the United States in 2003, the study said. Dr. Meeta Prasad of the University ...

CDC Got Record Number of Reported Outbreaks of Recreational Water Illnesses in 2007

Some people may not see an automatic parallel between the Marine Corps and nursing, but Anthony Brown does. The 39-year-old father of two, a former Marine now head nurse of the cardiopulmonary transplant unit at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis, cites teamwork, leadership and taking care of the common good as similarities between the two fields. Anthony, a Gulf War veteran, served eight ...

The urge to smoke is contagious, but quitting apparently is, too. A team of researchers who showed that obesity can spread person-to-person has found a similar pattern with smoking cessation: A smoker is more likely to kick the habit if a spouse, friend, co-worker or sibling did. What's more, smokers tend to quit in groups and those who don't stop puffing ...

May 15, 2008 People age 60 and older should be vaccinated against shingles, or herpes zoster, a condition often marked by debilitating chronic pain, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended today. CDC recommends a single dose

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Entereg (alvimopan) today to accelerate the restoration of normal bowel function in patients 18 years and up who have undergone partial large or small bowel resection surgery. Entereg will be used in hospital

Weight discrimination, especially against women, is increasing in U.S. society and is almost as common as racial discrimination, two studies suggest. Reported discrimination based on weight has increased 66% in the past decade, up from about 7% to 12% of U.S. adults, says one study, in the journal Obesity. The other study, in the International Journal of Obesity, says such discrimination ...

The Bush administration today launches a $1.9 million advertising campaign touting its effort to rate hospitals and urging patients to check a government website before choosing one. The ad campaign in 58 regional newspapers lists hospitals and their scores on two of more than 30 measures available on the website: the percentage of patients getting antibiotics before surgery to prevent infection ...