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Some psych patients wait days in ERs

Experts say it is also an extreme symptom of a crisis occurring in hospitals nationwide. Emergency rooms, they say, have become all-purpose dumping grounds for the mentally ill, with patients routinely marooned a day or more while health care workers ...

Stolen University of Utah medical files recovered

We have the backup tapes and there's no indication they were compromised," said David Entwistle, chief executive of University of Utah Hospitals & Clinics.

Drug errors hurt 1 in 15 hospitalized kids

Also, the study didn't include general community hospitals, where most U.S. children requiring hospitalization are treated. Study author Dr. Paul Sharek said evidence is needed to show whether a big push to prevent medical errors in recent years has ...

Cabbie who left baby will avoid charges

A state safe haven law allows parents unable to care for newborns to leave them anonymously at hospitals, police stations or firehouses without risking prosecution, but it applies only to children up to 5 days old. Police said Wednesday that Rodas, 27 ...

Doctors still taking drug company freebies

Half were in private group practices and the rest worked in hospitals and medical schools. Responses were anonymous. About 95 percent said they had contact with drug or device companies. Targeting influence The extent of the interactions varied by ...