On May 8 and 9, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital operated on Thomas Manning, a 64-year-old bank courier, for 15 hours. The result was the first penis transplant ever performed in the United States.
Dr. David Newman, the prominent Mount Sinai emergency room physician accused of ejaculating on a sedated patient’s face, was questioned Tuesday morning by Special Victims Unit detectives, ABC 7 is reporting. The station reports that Newman was subsequently taken into custody.
Barbara Dawson, 57, died on Monday of a blood clot in her lungs after being arrested for refusing to leave Florida’s Calhoun Liberty Hospital.
On Thursday, Louisiana’s Lafayette General Medical Center, the hospital that tended to victims of the July movie theater shooting, sent ten pizzas to Mercy Medical Center in Roseburg, Oregon, as they struggled to keep up with incoming victims after a shooting at Umpqua Community College left 10 dead and seven others…
A hospital in Florida is violating a woman's right to make sound medical decisions regarding herself and her unborn child after trying to force her to have a C-section she did not want to have or risk being reported to Child Protective Services.
How much does it cost to have a baby? Enough to keep failing New York City hospitals afloat, according to a new report.
Premature babies across the country are allegedly malnourished because some of the nutrients they need are being sucked up into celebrities freshly botoxed mugs via a trendy vitamin drip.
Doctors at two NYC hospitals will soon start giving patients Health Bucks — $2 coupons that can be used at any of the 142 farmers markets across the city. If these bucks start making people less fat, the pilot program could expand to other low-income neighborhoods.
Despite major advances in technology and innovation, infection spreads at modern-day hospitals like dysentery spread on (your last game of) Oregon Trail. Studies have shown that without encouragement, hospital employees only wash their hands about 30 percent of the time they're interacting with patients. Paging Dr.…
Hey you — yes, you with the glassy eyes and your finger endlessly hovering over the "refresh" button on your Twitter feed/live blog: take a time out by reading about the heroic Boston hospital workers who, according to the New Yorker, saved every single one of the wounded patients from the Boston Marathon bombings.
A pregnant woman in Ireland who is is two weeks overdue, according to her records at Waterford Regional Hospital, was taken to High Court after refusing the C-section procedure recommended by hospital staff. The woman, who insists that her due date is actually March 18th, in contradiction with the…
Around one in eight Americans seeks treatment at a Catholic hospital, whether they realize it or not. In the Northwest, the percentage of Catholic hospitals is 44 percent and growing. The Stranger has a great piece on Catholics who are taking over and potentially imposing their faith on your health care. Here's a…
Hospitals can be pretty terrifying places even without grotesquely painted jesters shuffling through their wards in oversized shoes, but that hasn't stopped Israeli hospitals from relying on medical clowns to help put tremulous patients more at ease because apparently not enough Israelis know who Pennywise is.
A surgical technician at New York's Mount Sinai hospital is being sued by a former colleague who says he called her derogatory names and regularly watched porn on his cell phone during open-heart surgeries.
Obvious statement: when faced with the imminent death of a child, most parents urge doctors to try everything, to keep working to turn things around, to try experimental treatments with a low likelihood of success, even when everyone else has given up hope. Less obvious side effect of that manifestation of parental…
Breastfeeding, according to all the trendiest news stories, is the best thing ever — it turns your baby into a super genius with a brain the size of a mutated cantaloupe and all but ensures that child's eventual acceptance into an elite university, either Oxford or the Sorbonne, but maybe Harvard as a back-up. There…
Some highlights from McSweeney's Internet Tendency's delightful "Jamie and Jeff's Birth Plan":
Even before people started vivisecting their daily routines on Facebook, there existed the camcorder and the failed filmmaker-turned-parent that would produce it at every family gathering just at that moment when everyone else was getting ready to candidly enjoy themselves. Tell the future family Merry Christmas,…
An advocacy group called Corporate Accountability International is urging hospitals to sever their ties with McDonalds franchises, "to help curb the epidemic of diet-related disease and to stop fostering a food environment that promotes harm, not health." There are at least 27 hospitals around the country offering…
Some of the nation's largest health networks are run by religious orders. Because of this, they invoke "conscience clauses" in refusing to provide birth control, perform abortions, or sterilize women who want a tubal ligation. But now, some states are attempting to block religious hospitals' expansion, saying their…
