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    Dec 14, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  1. Travel medicine for the zero-gravity set

    Virgin Galactic is already offering $200,000 tickets to intrepid tourists who want to <a href="http://www.virgingalactic.com/" target="_blank">take a suborbital flight </a>on a craft called SpaceShipTwo. Start-up <a href="http://goldenspikecompany.com/" target="_blank">Golden Spike</a> announced earlier this month that it would offer round trips to the moon for two starting at $1.4 billion.
    Virgin Galactic is already offering $200,000 tickets to intrepid tourists who want to take a suborbital flight on a craft called SpaceShipTwo. Start-up Golden Spike announced earlier this month that it would offer round trips to the moon for two...

    Tags: Virgin Group, Ltd., Travel, Immune System, Back Pain, General Practitioners

  2. Jan 28, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  3. 'It's never just one thing' that leads to serious harm

    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    A technician mistakes an "a" for an "o" in a drug name. A doctor misplaces a decimal point in a prescription order. A nurse reaches for a vial in a cabinet as she's done hundreds of times before, only this time the light is dim and she fails to notice...

    Tags: Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts), Heart Attack, Death, Pharmaceuticals, Hospitals and Clinics

  4. Feb 14, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  5. Dr. Willem Kolff dies at 97; Dutch physician built first kidney dialysis machine

    Dr. Willem Kolff, the Dutch physician and tinkerer who built the first kidney dialysis machine from cellophane, Ford auto parts and other scraps and in the process saved the lives of millions, died from natural causes Wednesday at a Philadelphia care center. The "father of artificial organs," who also built the first successful artificial heart, was 97.
    Dr. Willem Kolff, the Dutch physician and tinkerer who built the first kidney dialysis machine from cellophane, Ford auto parts and other scraps and in the process saved the lives of millions, died from natural causes Wednesday at a Philadelphia care...

    Tags: Dialysis, Death, Heart Surgery, Colleges and Universities, Hospitals and Clinics

  6. Jan 10, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  7. State cites safety drug lapses at Cedars-Sinai

    Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's handling of high-risk drugs placed its pediatric patients in immediate jeopardy of harm, the state said Wednesday in its response to an overdose involving the newborn twins of actor Dennis Quaid.
    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's handling of high-risk drugs placed its pediatric patients in immediate jeopardy of harm, the state said Wednesday in its response to an overdose involving the newborn twins of actor Dennis Quaid. In a 20-page report, the...

    Tags: Death, Pharmaceuticals, Hospitals and Clinics, Health and Medical Professionals, Dennis Quaid

  8. Jan 28, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  9. Patient, protect thyself

    Special to The Times
    The numbers can be worrisome -- 1 out of 10 hospitalized patients picks up an infection or suffers some kind of mistake while in the hospital, statistics show. And the stories are frightening -- Dennis Quaid's newborn babies were given a huge overdose...

    Tags: Hemorrhaging, Career and Workplace, Hospitals and Clinics, Pharmaceuticals, Health and Safety at Work

  10. Jan 15, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  11. Quaids recall twins' drug overdose

    Before actor Dennis Quaid went to bed Nov. 18, he gave one last call to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where his newborn twins were being treated for staph infections.
    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    Before actor Dennis Quaid went to bed Nov. 18, he gave one last call to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where his newborn twins were being treated for staph infections. "Oh, they're fine," Quaid recalled a nurse telling him about 9 p.m. "They're just fine."...

    Tags: Hemorrhaging, St. John's Health Center, Death, Pharmaceuticals, Hospitals and Clinics

  12. Feb 15, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  13. Possible heparin problems detected

    Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
    Testing has turned up possible irregularities in some samples of a blood thinner linked to several deaths and hundreds of life-threatening reactions, a spokeswoman for Baxter Healthcare Corp. said Thursday. The disclosure comes amid mounting questions...

    Tags: China, Death, Bart Stupak, Hospitals and Clinics, Cherry Hill

  14. Mar 26, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  15. Business briefs

    LABOR Walgreen settlement wins OK A federal judge has signed off on Walgreen Co.'s plan to pay $24 million to settle a U.S. lawsuit alleging racial bias at the nation's largest drugstore chain. About 10,000 past and present black Walgreen workers will...

    Tags: Walgreen Co., Federal Reserve, Heart Attack, Merck & Company Incorporated, Death

  16. Dec 5, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  17. Dennis Quaid files suit over drug mishap

    Actor Dennis Quaid and wife Kimberly sued a leading blood-thinner manufacturer Tuesday, saying the labeling and design of the product led to a massive overdose of their newborn twins last month at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    Actor Dennis Quaid and wife Kimberly sued a leading blood-thinner manufacturer Tuesday, saying the labeling and design of the product led to a massive overdose of their newborn twins last month at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. The Quaids' babies, Thomas...

    Tags: Lawyers, Death, Litigation, Family, Hospitals and Clinics

  18. Nov 22, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  19. Hospital drug errors far from uncommon

    The case of actor Dennis Quaid's newborn twins, who were reportedly given 1,000 times the intended dosage of a blood thinner at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, underscores one of the biggest problems facing the healthcare industry: medication errors.
    Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
    The case of actor Dennis Quaid's newborn twins, who were reportedly given 1,000 times the intended dosage of a blood thinner at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, underscores one of the biggest problems facing the healthcare industry: medication errors. At...

    Tags: Potassium (dietary supplement), Death, Pharmaceuticals, Health and Safety at School, Hospitals and Clinics

  20. May 14, 2013 |Story| Associated Press
  21. Subsidiary of Indian drug maker agrees to pay record $500 million US penalty for impure drugs

    Associated Press
    WASHINGTON (AP) — A subsidiary of India's largest pharmaceutical company has agreed to pay a record $500 million in fines and penalties for selling adulterated drugs and lying to federal regulators in a case that is part of an ongoing crackdown on...

    Tags: Lawyers, U.S. Department of Justice, Pharmaceuticals, Food and Drug Administration, Justice System

  22. Mar 20, 2013 |Story| Tribune Media Services
  23. Briefs-Harvard Health

    Premium Health News Service
    DON'T IGNORE "MILD" STROKES Many people at risk for heart attack are also at higher risk for stroke, since the underlying disease process--atherosclerosis--can block blood flow to the brain, just as it does in the heart. Although many people know that...

    Tags: Heart Attack, Diseases and Illnesses, Physical Conditions, Stroke, Hospitals and Clinics

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