Topic: Hospitals

County offers whooping cough vaccine

Half Moon Bay Review, California - 4 hours ago
So far there have been nearly eight times as many cases of whooping cough in San Mateo County as doctors usually expect. In response, San Mateo...

Crews at home of Stoughton explosion

ABC 27 Milwaukee (WKOW) - 4 hours ago
The Dane County Sheriff's Bomb Squad and Madison Fire Department hazardous incident team are at a Stoughton home today where there was an...

Deadly Hospital Staph Illnesses Drop

Sci-Tech Today - 5 hours ago
Aggressive, drug-resistant staph infections caught in hospitals or from medical treatment are becoming scarcer, another sign of progress in a ...

11-Year-Old Struck By Vehicle, Critically Injured

NBC 12 Winston Salem (WXII) - 5 hours ago
An 11-year-old girl is on life support at Brenner Children's Hospital after she was struck by a vehicle along Highway 150 near Lexington Tuesday...

Union Protest Banners Against Owners: Labor Board Is Wise

Engineering News-Record - 7 hours ago
If ever there were a dispute in which the outcome depended on the details, it is the question of whether a union may legally display banners or...

Health tip: stay safe around the school bus

NBC 3 Louisville (WAVE) - 7 hours ago
Teaching children to take precautions while waiting for, entering and exiting a school bus can help keep them safe.. . The National Safety Council ...

Louis Hampers: Reporting on indicted doctor mostly skips or obscures link to 9News reporter

Westword: The Latest Word - 9 hours ago
Does the media treat journalists in the news differently than the average person? Consider the case of Dr. Louis Hampers, a Children's Hospital...

Louis Hampers: Feds indict controversial doctor for allegedly writing 100s of fake prescriptions

Westword: The Latest Word - yesterday
Louis Hampers, the Children's Hospital doctor who was the subject of the recent Westword feature "When This Physician Gets the Fever, it's the...

Researchers at Children's Hospital Los Angeles find diet-induced obesity accelerates leukemia

EurekAlert! - yesterday
The first study to demonstrate that obesity can directly accelerate the progression of acute lymphoblastic leukemia has been conducted at The Saban...

Some Things Shouldn't Go Viral: Bad Ad Campaigns Part IV

Blogging.la - 3 days ago
A few days ago a friend, who knows about my aversion to bad ad campaigns sent me this picture in case it was blog-worthy:. . And then this morning...