Hospital aparatusses

	Tragic Human Error Lead to Transplantation of HIV-positive Organs
...Several Italian doctors have transplanted to three recipients organs that were infected by HIV. The information was provided by the hospital in Florence. The doctors from the Careggi hospital said that the liver and kidneys of an HIV-positive woman were transplanted after a laboratory biologist mistakenly wrote on a woman's medical records that she tested negative for the virus. The chief of Careggi hospital, Edoardo M...
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	High school student shot himself in the leg
... senior accidentally shot himself in the leg. The information was provided by the local police. The name of the 18 years old student is Damien Singleton. According to WPOE-TV the boy was taken to the hospital where he was operated. The student of the same high school told that there was a gun shot and then someone screamed and swore. The whole class went to the back closet. They stayed there for about forty minutes. ...
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	Now one blood group fits everyone
...lecules from the blood cells thus making one blood match other blood groups. After test trials new blood where A, B and AB blood groups will be converted into O group is anticipated to be used in hospitals. The National Blood Service now has 40,000 of blood samples that can be enough for about five days. Powered by www.infoniac.com ...
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	Fighting in Somalia to cause aid crisis
...he city. None of the correspondents was able to explain what was the cause of Thursday morning's fighting in the city. Hassan Ibrahim, the driver of a minibus with wounded people that drove to the hospital, said that there were 6 consecutive missiles that killed and wounded a lot of people. Although last December Ethiopia helped the government forces in ousting an Islamist group from Mogadishu, the violence in the r...
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	Algerian woman gave birth to septuplets
...Seven children were born in Algeria on April, 18 in Boumerdes region by 27-year old woman. Six girls and one boy appeared by Cesarean operation in the hospital of capital city of Algeria. Sadly, the boy didn't survive and the rest six children needed medical supervision. Newborn children are in good condition. The leightest of the children weighs about 1.5 lb (700 g) and the biggest - about 3 lb (1400g), Al-Khbar new...
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	Woman saved her baby with the ring
...ding ring to bounce later on. After a shock, she fainted while the gunman went on shooting, causing minor injures to a pregnant woman. The lucky woman, who was at late pregnancy, was taken to the hospital. Doctors claimed she and her baby were safe and in good condition. However the customers, a 17 and 11-year old girls, who visited the drugstore at that moment, were not given a chance to survive. Both were kill...
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	New Saliva Test to Save 1,000 Unborn Babies Each Year
... the condition but giving birth to the baby. However, early detection of the problem could serve well for monitoring pregnant women for further complications. Researchers, working at St. Richards Hospital in Chichester, make their study on 1,000 women, that take part in the saliva test. Scientists hope that the new test will be more effective and precise than the tests of urine and blood pressure that are currently us...
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	Woman lived with bullet for 64 years
...A Chinese woman, 77, who arrived at hospital with a headache was x-rayed to find a bullet that was in her head for 64 years. Jin Guangying, a grandmother from Shuyang town, Jiangsu province recalls the incident that happened during the World War II in 1943. She was 13 year old girl, when Japanese soldiers invaded their province and one of them tried to kill her as she was taking meal to her father, who was a guerrill...
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	A Jogger Wearing iPod Struck by Lightning
...A man wearing his iPod during a thunderstorm was hurled eight feet into the air when lightning hit a tree close by. The 37-year-old Canadian jogger was taken to a Vancouver hospital with burned parts of body, blown-out eardrums and fracture of a lower jaw. The burns covering the man's chest, neck and ear coincided with the positions of his iPod earphones he was wearing at the moment of the lightning strike. As for th...
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	A Chinese Lived Six Years with a Chip of Glass in His Eye
... the young man experienced an abundance of tears in his eye, but it was taken has a mere consequence of the surgery. However a month ago pain came along with tears. Examinations in several Chinese hospitals could not reveal anything suspicious, yet when undergoing an examination at a specialized eye clinic he was told that his right eye housed a 1.4 inch piece of glass. Powered by www.infoniac.com ...
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	Woman lives with needles inside her body
...Chinese woman came to a hospital suffering from blood in her urine, when doctors found her body pierced inside with 26 needles. Luo Cuifen, a 29-year-old woman, is believed to have needles inserted in her body soon after birth by her grandparents, who were disappointed she was not a boy. After she arrived at hospital, X-ray showed numerous sewing needles all over her body, some very close to vital organs: lungs, bladd...
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	Doctor cut off the wrong side of woman's head
...ver, this mistake took one more hour for the operation to be completed. Medical practice review board said that its is still unknown if this mistake affected woman's health condition somehow. The hospital officials had apologized to 80 year old woman and her family. The woman came to the hospital after a stroke and computer tomography showed that it was a blood tumor. However, the surgeon was not accurate when ch...
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	5-Year-Old Girl - Youngest in the World with Double Lung Transplant
...t to be from the same ethnic group as the donor, people of the same color have more chances to become a match. Fortunately, a donor for the suffering girl was found in January and Great Ormond Street Hospital's surgeons performed the operation that lasted for eight hours. Four weeks after the operation, Mariam was moved to the local hospital and stayed there until April. Today Mariam is happy to be back at school, and ru...
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	Chinese Man Died of Exhaustion After 3-day Gaming
... playing on-line game. He was so absorbed in a game he did not leave his computer and was supposed to die from exhaustion. The day before the event he fainted and was taken from the cybercafe to the hospital where he died, the Beijing News reported. Doctors made some efforts to revive him but it seemed that he passed away in the cybercafe. The main cause of gamer's death is overall exhaustion after three days of non-...
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	A 91-Year Old Patient Left Alone in a Storeroom
...Mrs King, a 91-year-old patient of Royal North Shore Hospital, was suffering from blood clots in her legs, having been left alone in a medical equipment storeroom with no emergency buzzer. A photograph of Mrs King lying on a hospital bed was published today in The Daily Telegraph claiming the elderly lady was photographed in the hospital's storeroom. However, NSW Health Minister Reba Meagher and NSW Health director-gen...
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