It's one of those things that makes hearts drop: Donor organs don't come easy but one was pitched after a 280 mile trip to the hospital--via three vehicles. It wasn't air or ground transport responsible for dropping the organ slated for transplant. Two left feet were apparently involved, when a medic literally tripped to chuck a donor's heart streetside on pavement. Read more
The American Red Cross has been hit again with another fine. This one's $10 million over blood handling and management the FDA says may not be safe. The organization's been ordered to clean up its act--even threatened with criminal penalties--but nothing's been working. The ARC is "disappointed." Apparently it feels the fine concerning human safety is unfair. Read more
Hospital and medical billing errors aren't uncommon. Many patients consider incorrect bills a norm. But one bill highlights the problem in an undeniably funny way: New York residents are getting statements reflecting the patients don't owe hundreds but millions to Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center. Read more
How about some Percocet or Vicodin with that Gas-X? Novartis announces a recall of over-the-counter products including Excedrin and Bufferin. Those taking No Doz could garner the opposite effect--in what could be a major mix-up of Endo prescription pills swapped with OTC store remedies. Read more
Maggots devour lots of stuff but that stuff is usually carcasses and decaying life--not humans trying to stay alive. What most consider some of the foulest creatures on earth are ironically proving to rank among the cleanest. Or at least the cleaners. Doctors say the gross-looking crawlers may clean wounds faster than a scalpel in "maggot therapy". Read more
You’d think organs from those in good health would be readily accepted from those needing them to live. But the CDC wants more than one sex partner per year to equal “elevated risk”. It may sound funny—and certainly sound stupid—but more people who would’ve been able to receive organs to live may die. Read more
One guy's been fighting cancer for two years and has been on the transplant list for a new liver. But now Cedars Sinai's recently kicked him off the organ donor list in a decision that could mean life or death for Norman Smith--all because he's a medical marijuana user who's used the prescribed drug to treat radiation pain. Read more
The only thing more scary than finding out grape and apple juices contains a chunk of arsenic may be discovering the FDA isn't monitoring the drinks for that toxin or lead content. Bottled water, it's got regulations. Gerber, Welch's, Mott's, Minute Maid and Walmart juice brands are on the hot seat. Read more
Pfizer is no dummy and its not giving up cash cow Lipitor. The pharmaceutical company is pretty much willing to pay people to keep out generics for as long as possible--and it's doing so in ways some consider underhanded by cutting deals with pharmacies that would literally block sale of alternate generics. Read more
The diabetic know that low blood sugar can mean life or death. It all makes things bad for employer Walgreens--a former employee suing the company in a complaint that alleges the store fired her over a bag of chips. Josefina Hernandez says she opened the snack when an onset of diabetes symptoms came on, while she was working. And that ended her employment. Read more
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