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A local nurse accused of giving a lethal dose of morphine to an 11-year-old East Hempfield Township boy in 2002 agreed to surrender her nursing license last month. Joy O'Shea Woomer, of Lancaster, signed a consent form saying she will surrender her license pending her trial on a criminal homicide charge and two felony drug charges of illegally administering morphine. The ...

MILWAUKEE – Please, please accept a high-paying job with us. In fact, just swing by for an interview and we'll give you a chance to win cash and prizes. Sounds too good to be true, especially in an economy riddled with job cuts in nearly every industry. But applicants for nursing jobs are still so scarce that recruiters have been forced ...

The American Nurses Association (ANA) announces its endorsement of Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) in the 2008 Presidential Election. The ANA represents the interests of the nation's 2.9 million registered nurses. "As President, Barack Obama will bring real change to our health care system," said ANA President Rebecca M. Patton, MSN, RN, CNOR. "Nurses are consistently voted the most trusted profession by ...

They ought to give her a medal. Instead, she got misused. If this is how they run the show at the Erie County Home in Alden, somebody ought to be shown the door. Joyce Diasparra was driving home two weeks ago after a tough shift. Diasparra is head nurse of Unit S, a wing with about 50 patients. She had worked ...

The search for the remains of a Jersey City baby has moved to Kentucky, but police fear that the corpse has already been incinerated. Police have been looking for the body of Bashere Davon Moyd Jr. since Jan. 2, when the baby was discovered missing from a hospital morgue. Christ Hospital officials have not said where the body may have gone, ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Jan. 7 - A Florida woman who claims part of a knife was left inside her head after she was stabbed three years ago said she plans to sue the hospital that treated her. Chad Roberts, an attorney for Edith McQueen of Jacksonville, said his client went to the Shands-Jacksonville Medical Center in August 2005 after she was stabbed ...

ROCHESTER, Mich. — They're twins, all right, despite what their spanking new birth certificates say. Tariq Griffin entered the world at 12:17 a.m. on New Year's Day at Crittenton Hospital in Rochester, Mich. Twin brother Tarrance was born a bit earlier — 26 minutes to be exact. That means the boys have the unique distinction of having been born on different ...

LAGUNA HILLS, Calif., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Doctors said a 14-pound, 2-ounce boy born at a Laguna Hills, Calif., hospital may be the largest baby ever delivered in Orange County. Saddleback Memorial Medical Center doctors said the child born Tuesday to Sara and Richard Sault is the heaviest baby to be born at the hospital and an informal check of other ...

OLATHE, Kan. - A nurse is facing a charge of aggravated sodomy for an alleged sex act with a brain-damaged patient at a Johnson County rehabilitation facility. Prosecutors say 39-year-old Brent Wheeler of Lawrence made his initial court appearance Wednesday stemming from the alleged incident last December the facility in Gardner. In the DA's complaint, it states that Wheeler did unlawfully ...

JERSEY CITY, N.J — Police are searching garbage dumps in New Jersey and Pennsylvania for the body of a baby that was apparently thrown out with the trash at a Jersey City hospital. Christ Hospital spokeswoman Barbara Davy says the baby was stillborn on Dec. 21 and the body was placed in the hospital morgue. The body was gone when a ...

BERLIN - An American man who suffered from AIDS appears to have been cured of the disease 20 months after receiving a targeted bone marrow transplant normally used to fight leukemia, his doctors said. While researchers — and the doctors themselves — caution that the case might be no more than a fluke, others say it may inspire a greater interest ...

Presidential hopefuls, Barack Obama and John McCain, both want healthcare coverage for all Americans, but they have very different ways of going about securing affordable insurance for all. Obama's plan involves a heavier government hand, including subsidies and coverage of all children. McCain's plan, on the other hand, relies on individual responsibility. *Which healthcare plan do you think will win over ...

HARRISBURG - After years of lobbying, nurses and other medical professionals in Pennsylvania will no longer be forced to routinely work overtime. Under a new law, which goes into effect in July, health care facilities will be prohibited, with few exceptions, from forcing nurses and certain other health care staffers to work beyond their scheduled shifts. Supporters of the bill say ...

ATLANTA – Health officials are investigating a salmonella outbreak that reportedly has sickened nearly 400 people in 42 states, but they do not yet know exactly how the bacteria has been spreading. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has not named all the states, but Ohio health officials have reported at least 50 people in 18 counties have been ...

FORT WALTON BEACH -- Battery charges are being considered against an intoxicated woman who fought the emergency room staff who were treating her Dec. 20 at the Fort Walton Beach Medical Center. ER personnel told an Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office deputy that the woman was "highly under the influence" and "combative" with staff. She spit in the face of a nurse ...

About 200 former surgery patients at Boulder Community Hospital have been told they may have been given saltwater instead of a painkiller, 9News reported Thursday night. The hospital and Boulder police are investigating a nurse the hospital says was stealing the powerful drug Fentanyl. A hospital spokesman told 9News the nurse had been replacing the drug in the vial with sterile ...

Matthew Wiseman, a registered nurse who pilfered a dead patient’s credit card, was ordered to serve a month in jail on Wednesday. The 24-year-old man, who pleaded guilty to credit card theft and credit card fraud, used the card of Michael Puopolo in March to buy a laptop computer hours after the 75-year-old man was pronounced dead at Sentara Bayside Hospital. ...

CHICAGO – This time, when the lanky young man stepped into the pool, his chest was tight. His muscles ached. He pushed off to take his first strokes, and grimaced at the pain. That he was back in the pool just six weeks after open heart surgery was quite remarkable, but he was still a bit crestfallen. He could only swim ...

Remember Bend's so-called pregnant man? The condition must've suited Thomas Beatie, because he's expecting again. Beatie, a 34-year-old transgender man who became known the world over when he announced he was pregnant in March, gave birth to a healthy girl five months ago. In an exclusive interview with Barbara Walters scheduled for broadcast on "20/20" at 10 tonight on KATU (2/ABC), ...

A former prison nurse whose career may be in jeopardy over her relationship with a jailed murderer has married him in an intimate ceremony at Maghaberry Prison. Kathryn McClelland and glue-sniffing killer Paul Johnston (26) walked down the aisle in front of about half a dozen guests in the Co Antrim jail’s chapel last week. Johnston and his brother Stephen are ...