Category Archives: hospital

Santorum cancels events to be with sick daughter

By doris | Published: January 29, 2012

Full Story at NBCPoliticsmsnbc.msn.com Updated at 1 a.m. ET: WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum canceled his Sunday morning campaign events and planned to spend time with his hospitalized daughter. “Rick and his wife Karen are admitting their daughter Bella to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia this evening,” spokesman Hogan Gidley said [...]

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Giffords recovering from skull surgery

By doris | Published: May 21, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is “recovering well” after skull surgery Wednesday, officials at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center in Houston said. The Arizona Democrat had a cranioplasty procedure, officials said. Doctors will discuss the procedure and Giffords’ next step in rehabilitation at a Thursday morning press briefing. Jared Lee Loughner [...]

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Spokesman: Giffords recovering part of her ability to speak

By doris | Published: February 10, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, recovering from a gunshot wound to the head suffered January 8, is regaining part of her ability to speak and recently asked for toast while having breakfast, staffers said Wednesday. Spokesman C.J. Karamargin would not divulge what else Giffords has said, other than that she [...]

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Giffords arrives at Houston hospital

By doris | Published: January 21, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com HOUSTON — Rep. Gabrielle Giffords got a dramatic send-off from her hometown Friday as throngs of sign-carrying well-wishers lined the streets to wave at the ambulance taking the wounded congresswoman from the hospital to the airport, where she was flown to Houston just two weeks after she was shot. The trip [...]

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Foreman: Raging Arizona

By doris | Published: January 13, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com CNN) — Here’s the thing: Blaming Arizona is easy. In the wake of the terrible shooting at that congressional town hall meeting, it is simple to point to a rampant culture of easy gun access, intolerance, and anti-government fever and say, “Sure, this man was unbalanced, but the wild winds of [...]

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9/11 responders’ $4.2B aid package called miracle

By doris | Published: December 23, 2010

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com NEW YORK – It was called a “Christmas miracle,” but a last-minute compromise by Congress will provide a smaller aid package than originally envisioned to help victims of the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center and the responders sickened as they worked in its smoldering ruins. The measure passed [...]

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Horse-drawn wagon delivers White House Christmas tree

By doris | Published: November 28, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com The White House shifted into Christmas mode on Friday as Michelle Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha accepted the gift of an 18½-foot Douglas fir from Pennsylvania as the official White House Christmas Tree. A military band played “Oh Christmas Tree” during the ceremony.Story: Obama needs 12 stitches after being hit [...]

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Health law snag may cost hospitals

By doris | Published: November 25, 2010

Full Story at Boston.com WASHINGTON — Partisan tensions on Capitol Hill are delaying efforts to fix an error in the federal health care law that could cost Children’s Hospital Boston and others like it millions of dollars in added drug costs.Correcting the error would require changing just 47 words in the 1,880-page law, a task [...]

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Carter checked at hospital after falling ill

By doris | Published: September 29, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com CLEVELAND — Former President Jimmy Carter, on a trip promoting his new book, developed an upset stomach on a flight to Cleveland on Tuesday and was staying at a hospital overnight at his doctor’s recommendation. Carter’s grandson, Georgia state Sen. Jason Carter, said his 85-year-old grandfather was doing fine. “He’s definitely [...]

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Obama says health care reform helping people get by

By doris | Published: September 24, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — Faced with a divided public over his signature legislative achievement, President Barack Obama on Wednesday hailed the health care reform bill passed in March as important for helping both the government and the American people deal with rising medical costs. The measure endured a bitter political fight that [...]

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Lawmakers probe hospital that may have infected veterans with HIV

By doris | Published: July 13, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — The House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs will hold a hearing Tuesday afternoon into the safety lapses at the John Cochran VA Medical Center in Missouri. The hospital is under fire because it may have exposed more than 1,800 veterans to life-threatening diseases such as hepatitis and HIV. The center [...]

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Sen. Robert Byrd hospitalized in serious condition

By doris | Published: June 28, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — Sen. Robert Byrd, the 92-year-old Democrat from West Virginia who is the longest-serving Congress member in history, has been hospitalized in serious condition, his office said Sunday. Byrd was admitted to a Washington area hospital last week and his condition is “seriously ill,” according to the statement by [...]

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