As a registered nurse in Colorado, Jennifer Harlan cares for cardiac patients for a living — but in the past five years, she herself has survived three heart attacks. Last week, Harlan, 53, had the opportunity to meet with the EMS crew who saved her life at HCA Healthcare’s Sky Ridge Medical Center in Denver, … Read more
Most people go to the hospital to get cured of disease. But almost 450 patients at Salem Hospital in Massachusetts have now been warned of their possible exposure to hepatitis and HIV. The exposure was caused by intravenous (IV) medication errors over the past two years. Officials at Salem Hospital, located some 16 miles north … Read more
Thanksgiving is coming up quickly and plenty of Americans are already prepping for the feast-filled holiday. With extra visitors coming by and sometimes last-minute chaos at home, pets can tend to be overlooked during holiday time. Dr. Lindsay Butzer, a veterinarian from Boca Raton, Florida, shared with Fox News Digital her top tips for keeping pets safe this … Read more
An 8-month-old infant in the United Kingdom has been given more time to live after an appeal suspended a judge’s mandate that she be removed from life support. Justice Robert Peel ruled Wednesday that Indi Gregory was to be removed from her life-supporting ventilator on Thursday against the parents’ wishes. Now, the Gregory family has … Read more
Kel Mitchell is reportedly hospitalized in Los Angeles. The 45-year-old “Good Burger” alum allegedly entered a Los Angeles-area hospital Tuesday night through the emergency room, TMZ reports. A witness told the outlet that the “Kenan & Kel” star appeared to be conscious and alert when he arrived. TMZ claims Mitchell was still getting treatment as of … Read more
The Food and Drug Administration is investigating several hospitalizations and deaths potentially linked to counterfeit semaglutide drugs, such as Ozempic, according to multiple reports. At least three Americans have been hospitalized after injecting themselves with suspected counterfeit products, CBS News reported. The hospitalizations being investigated are allegedly among the 42 cases reported to the FDA’s Adverse … Read more
How did that get there? Nearly 300,000 American adults wind up in the emergency room every year for having a “foreign object in body” — making it the ninth leading cause of unintentional injuries that land people in the hospital, according to a new analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data. In 2021, … Read more
A 12-year-old was put in an induced coma after vaping caused damage to her lungs. Mary Griffin from Belfast, Ireland, shared that her daughter Sarah had a cough and didn’t feel well before bed on a recent Sunday night, but the family wasn’t initially alarmed, as they thought the symptoms were caused by Sarah’s asthma. … Read more
A 3-year-old Brazilian girl died last week after a scorpion crawled under her clothes and stung her while she slept, Newsflash reports, citing local media. Maria Fernanda Brito da Silva suffered a cardiac arrest while fighting for her life at the Hospital Regional de Mato Grosso do Sul in Campo Grande. Medics had treated Maria … Read more
A medical misdiagnosis led to the death of a “kind-hearted” young dad. Josh Warner, 25, died from a brain tumor after doctors misdiagnosed it as appendicitis. After two weeks of suffering headaches and being sick, Warner went to the hospital for a CT scan. The doctors told him he had appendicitis — despite having no … Read more
Madonna, the Queen of Pop, is back to tour rehearsals and is feeling better than ever after a brief hospitalization in June, according to a new report. “She returned to rehearsals last Monday,” an unidentified source told People on Tuesday. “She’s so happy to be back on stage and is feeling strong.” “She’s working closely with … Read more
Bummer. Nearly 4,000 people are hospitalized with foreign objects in their rectum each year, according to a new study published last month in The American Journal of Emergency Medicine — with many of the stuck items sexual objects. Researchers at the University of Rochester in New York were stumped by the “little epidemiologic information on … Read more
A hospital in Indiana where a staff member recently tested positive for tuberculosis has notified around 500 patients that they may have been exposed to the illness. Clark Memorial Health in Jeffersonville told Fox News Digital on Thursday that it sent out hundreds of letters to those possibly affected following the confirmed case. Clark County Health Officer … Read more
The mental health crisis affecting America’s children and teenagers is overwhelming hospital emergency rooms, say doctors. Parents are bringing in children as young as 5 or 6 years old with psychiatric emergencies like anxiety, depression and suicide attempts — but they’re finding ERs are often unable to help. “This crisis is only getting worse,” Dr. … Read more
A TikTok star miraculously survived as he fell more than 60 feet off a cliff onto lava rocks during a hiking trip in Hawaii on Wednesday, his family said. Caleb Coffee, 18, was hiking with three of his friends when he slipped and fell off the cliff around 2 p.m. and was airlifted to a … Read more
A mother has was left enraged after finding a “cold-hearted” note on her car during a trip to the emergency room with her son. The woman and her husband rushed to a hospital after their son had suffered a possible hairline fracture while playing sport, with her husband left to park the car as she … Read more
Cybercriminals attacked the computer systems of a California-based health care provider causing emergency rooms in multiple states to close and ambulance services to be redirected. The ransomware attack happened at Prospect Medical Holdings of Los Angeles, which has hospitals and clinics in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Texas. Prospect Medical is investigating how the breach … Read more
A man from Scotland woke up from his two-week coma convinced that he lived in California, had won thousands of dollars in the lottery and was going to meet singer Rihanna. Mark Gibbs, 42, felt “gutted” when he came back down to Earth after five weeks — and is sharing his scary experience to warn … Read more
Madonna is in the mood to “Celebrate.” The “Material Girl” singer posted a health update Sunday claiming that she was “lucky to be alive” after she received a small gift from her manager, Guy Oseary, while surrounded by loved ones. According to the singer’s Instagram account, the present was a Polaroid taken by Andy Warhol … Read more
An outbreak of Salmonella linked to ground beef has sickened 16 people in the Northeast and hospitalized six others, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The agency said nine people who had taken ill were from New Jersey, with others in New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts. Investigators are working to identify the … Read more