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10/02/2017 / By Vicki Batts

Twelve children hospitalized for heart surgery contract rare bacterial infection, with more at risk, thanks to unclean surgical device

Hospitals are often seen as the paragon of healthcare; when you or your child go to a hospital, there is a certain level of trust involved. But what happens when that implicit trust is violated? Over a dozen parents and children at a hospital in New Orleans learned the hard way that hospitals aren’t always […]

05/30/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

Toxic blood infections can be eliminated using MAGNETS, says British inventor of machine that’s about to begin human clinical trials

Known as “the silent killer,” sepsis has a hand in nearly half of our nation’s hospital deaths, according to a retrospective analysis involving 6.5 million hospital discharge records in the U.S. Patients might have been weakened by cancer, heart disease, or another illness, but it is sepsis that often proves their ultimate undoing. This makes […]

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