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Officer Killed in Hospital Siege Was Hit by Police Gunfire

Police were 'willing to lay down their lives for every single person at that hospital,' prosecutor says

(Newser) - An officer killed while responding to a Pennsylvania hospital siege was struck by a shotgun blast fired by police that also hit an armed man holding hostages, a prosecutor disclosed at a news conference Wednesday. The attacker and West York Patrolman Andrew W. Duarte were killed in the gunfire in...

Woman Being Taken to Hospital Fatally Stabs Paramedic: Cops

Suspect pleads not guilty to murder, other charges

(Newser) - A woman pleaded not guilty Monday to fatally stabbing a Kansas City, Missouri, paramedic while she was being transported in an ambulance Sunday. Shanetta Bossell, 39, is charged with first-degree murder, armed criminal action, assault, and resisting arrest, and is being held on $1 million bond, the AP reports....

Researchers See Cancer Risk From CT Scans
Researchers See Cancer
Risk From CT Scans
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Apr 27, 2025 10:05 AM CDT

Researchers See Cancer Risk From CT Scans

The scans could 'account for 5% of all new cancer diagnoses annually'

(Newser) - Each year, about 93 million CT scans are performed on 62 million patients across the US as a vital diagnostic tool of modern medicine. However, CBS News reports there could be a troubling side effect: a potential long-term cancer risk linked to radiation exposure. In a new study at...

In One Maternity Ward, 5 Nurses Have Brain Tumors

Boston-area hospital's investigation came up empty on cause of benign tumors; nurses' union steps in

(Newser) - A Boston-area hospital is stumped by a medical mystery: why five of its nurses, who all work on the same floor, have brain tumors. All five nurses from the fifth-floor maternity unit at Mass General Brigham's Newton-Wellesley Hospital have benign tumors—two of them being meningioma, the most common...

Police: NY Man Bungled Medical Procedure in His Home

Felipe Hoyos-Foronda, 38, was arrested at JFK airport

(Newser) - A New York City man faces charges after prosecutors say an unauthorized medical procedure at his Queens home left a patient with no brain activity. Police say a 31-year-old woman went to the home of Felipe Hoyos-Foronda, 38, last Friday to have butt implants removed, CBS News reports. Prosecutors say...

Hospital Gunman Was Told His Wife Couldn't Be Saved

Physician assistant describes Diogenes Archangel-Ortiz as 'broken' by the news

(Newser) - The gunman who took a Pennsylvania hospital's ICU staff hostage before killing a police officer and injuring five others was devasted after hearing there was nothing more to be done to save his wife, a terminally-ill patient in the same ICU. Diogenes Archangel-Ortiz, 49, had become irate in the...

Israeli Troops Force Staff, Patients Out of Gaza Hospital

Director is detained, accused of being a Hamas operative

(Newser) - The Israeli military has forced patients and staff members out of one of the last hospitals in operation in northern Gaza, and the health ministry said Saturday that the hospital's director was taken into custody. An Israel foreign ministry post on X described Kamal Adwan as a Hamas stronghold,...

Bill Clinton Hospitalized With Fever
Bill Clinton Is
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Dec 24, 2024 12:16 PM CST

Bill Clinton Is Out of the Hospital

'He sends his warmest wishes for a happy and healthy holiday season to all'

(Newser) - Bill Clinton will be home for Christmas. The former president was discharged from a Washington hospital on Tuesday, the day after he was admitted with a fever, the AP reports. Clinton's deputy chief of staff said the 78-year-old was treated for the flu. "He and his family are...

'Hospital' for Misfit Toys Keeps Joy Going for a New Generation

Venezuelan nonprofit gives outgrown playthings a makeover, donates them to vulnerable kids

(Newser) - The doll's golden curls are intact, and soon her head is, too. One by one, the toys that show the wear and tear of love are restored for the holidays: sewed and combed, stuffed and dressed. From Barbie dolls to a Kung Fu Panda character with a paw raised...

After Fall Overseas, Pelosi Has Hip Replacement Surgery

Spokesman says that ex-House speaker is 'well on the mend'

(Newser) - Nancy Pelosi's Luxembourg trip included a detour to a hospital in Germany, where a spokesman said Saturday she underwent successful hip replacement surgery. The former House speaker is "well on the mend," he said, after injuring herself in a fall. A Defense Department official told NBC News...

Israel Says Beirut Hospital Is Hiding Millions for Hezbollah

Hospital invites journalists in to prove it has nothing

(Newser) - The Israeli army accused Hezbollah of storing money and gold under a prominent hospital in Beirut, and the director of the hospital responded by inviting journalists in for a look, reports the AP , which was among those invited to inspect. Fadi Alame, a member of Lebanon's Parliament who's...

Helicopters Battling Winds Reach Patients on Hospital Roof

Water in Tennessee was rising too fast to evacuate people by raft

(Newser) - Patients and their caregivers were rescued Friday from a Tennessee hospital's roof, where they took shelter after flooding caused by Hurricane Helene drove them from the building's interior and conditions made rescue efforts difficult. The dramatic scene at Unicoi County Hospital in Erwin, near the North Carolina border,...

Suit: Hospital Said Patient Left When She Actually Died Inside

Family claim they searched for Jessie Peterson for a year before learning the truth

(Newser) - Family members of a woman who spent time in a California hospital say they desperately searched for her for a year after the hospital claimed she had checked herself out. In fact, the patient had died at the hospital, which failed to inform her family, according to a civil lawsuit...

State AG Drops Lawsuit Linked to 10-Year-Old's Abortion

Indiana's Todd Rokita said IU Health violated privacy laws when doctor spoke about case publicly

(Newser) - Indiana's attorney general has dropped a lawsuit he filed against the state's largest hospital system after a doctor told the media about a 10-year-old rape victim who traveled to the state from Ohio for an abortion in 2022. In a court filing last week, Todd Rokita said the...

Ukraine's Biggest Children's Hospital Struck by Missile

Doctor at Kyiv facility estimates more than half of it is damaged

(Newser) - Russia unleashed a daytime barrage of missiles on five Ukrainian cities on Monday, but it was a strike in Kyiv that has generated the most attention. A missile struck Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital, the nation's largest pediatric medical facility, in the capital, reports the BBC . At least two people...

Charges Dropped Against Nurse Accused of Treating Newborn Roughly

Amanda Burke was accused of slamming baby face down into bassinet in ICU

(Newser) - Charges against a Long Island nurse accused of slamming a newborn baby boy face down in a bassinet in an intensive care unit were dropped on Monday, the day her trial was due to begin. Amanda Burke was fired hours after the incident last year, but state investigators said her...

Charles, Kate Get Sprung From Hospital

The London Clinic has a decided dearth of royals after Monday

(Newser) - King Charles III on Monday was discharged from a private London clinic after undergoing a "corrective procedure" for an enlarged prostate. The 75-year-old monarch was admitted to the London Clinic, where the Princess of Wales, his daughter-in-law, recently had abdominal surgery. Charles, who ascended the throne 16 months ago,...

Questions Arise Over 'Evolving Situation' With Defense Secretary

Lloyd Austin's hospitalization on Jan. 1 for complications following surgery was kept quiet

(Newser) - Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is already home after being hospitalized most of the week—except almost no one knew he'd been hospitalized in the first place. The Pentagon announced Friday that Austin, 70, checked into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on New Year's Day, after he suffered...

Jewish Doctor Fired for Anti-Hamas Posts Sues

Dr. Benjamin Neel accuses NYU Langone of wrongful termination, religious discrimination

(Newser) - Pilots , journalists , professors , and doctors have been fired or otherwise disciplined for comments supporting and condemning Israel's offensive in Gaza, and now, in what will add to a nationwide debate over what's considered protected speech amid the Israel-Hamas war, one doctor is suing in response. Dr. Benjamin...

IDF: Here's Proof of Hamas Tunnels Under Hospital

Israel says footage of shaft, tunnel is evidence of complex Hamas tunnel network under Gaza facility

(Newser) - The world wanted evidence, and Israel now says it has it. On Sunday, the IDF said in a statement that it had discovered a tunnel underneath Gaza's Shifa Hospital, proof that the militant group was using the hospital as a command center. The IDF had long insisted that was...

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