TAMPA, Fla., May 29 (UPI) -- A cardiac catheterization was started last week on the wrong patient at a Florida hospital, officials admit while saying no harm was done to the man.
FAIRFIELD, Ohio, April 17 (UPI) -- Authorities in Butler County, Ohio, said a team of paramedics was shocked upon discovering a patient who appeared to be pregnant was actually a man.
GUATEMALA CITY, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- More than 1,000 Guatemalan farmers have waged protests over the arrest of one of their leaders, Prensa Libre newspaper reported Friday.
GUATEMALA CITY, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt says he plans to run for the Guatemalan Congress in an election scheduled for September.
AURORA, Ill., Nov. 19 (UPI) -- Illinois investigators Sunday were trying to determine who fired the shot that killed an Aurora, Ill., hospital patient in a shootout with police.
DENVER, May 18 (UPI) -- A Denver hospital Thursday said a patient who underwent brain surgery in February had Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and other patients might be at risk.
HONOLULU, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- Hoana Medical, a health technology start-up company in Hawaii, has won FDA approval to market its hospital patient sensors embedded in the bed.
GUATEMALA CITY, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- A group of recently unemployed Guatemalan coffee workers asked Mexico to give them refugee status, El Universal reported Thursday.
FORT WORTH, Texas, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- A Texas doctor has been sentenced to two years in prison for criminally negligent homicide in the death of a hospital patient. Dr. Lydia Grotti was convicted Tuesday in the death of Lettie McGhee, a 64-year-od patient who suffered a heart attack at John P
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Robert Tools, the first patient to receive a totally implantable artificial heart, is suffering some bleeding in the brain, on the same side where he suffered a
