Healthcare Industry News

A replenishment blood drive in Bridgeville on May 26 will support a local child who recently was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia.

Prosecutors in Johnson County are still developing charges for a man arrested in the stabbing death of a 6-year-old girl.

To say that Dr. Richard Markiewicz is animated when he talks about the procedures he performs would be an understatement.

ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS MAY 18-19 - In this April 18, 2013 photo, Kevin Kennedy and his mom, Jennifer, sleep together in at the East Alabama Medical Center while being treated for a broken arm in Auburn, Ala.

A 20-month-old boy is not expected to survive after suffering severe head injuries.

A human embryo, containing about a couple hundred cells, is smaller than the period at the end of a sentence.

Bristol-Myers Squibb accidentally killed a crab-eating macaque in 2011 when its cage was run through the wash cycle while the primate remained locked inside, according to an inspection report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

A metro Atlanta woman who lost both hands, her left leg and right foot after contracting a flesh-eating disease was on her way back from Ohio Friday after being fitted with prosthetic hands.

Twenty percent of American males and 10 percent of American females will experience a kidney stone at some point in their lifetime.

Firefighters responded to a two-alarm fire at a home on Sweet Hill Road in Plaistow around 2:45 a.m. Friday.

A Washington, D.C., advisory committee OK'd bids from Johns Hopkins Medicine and MedStar Health to build costly proton therapy centers on Thursday, leaving both just one step from final approval to proceed on the high-tech cancer treatment programs, the Washington Business Journal reported.

And the rate is increasing, said the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which produced the study, released Thursday.

The California Nurses Association plans to carry out a threatened walkout at four East Bay facilities run by Sutter Health , but is excluding San Leandro Hospital from its seven-day strike, CNA said May 16.

John August , executive director of the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, is stepping down this summer, Kasier officials confirmed Thursday.

Modern workers have struck another form of "black gold": printer toner, part of the $50 billion per year companies may lose to employees stealing from the office, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce.

First responders were called to the bluff's north side shortly before 9 p.m. on reports of someone needing medical assistance.

On the morning of Aug. 18, 2004, Dinesh Thakur hurried to a hastily arranged meeting with his boss at the gleaming offices of Ranbaxy Laboratories in Gurgaon, India, 20 miles south of New Delhi.

San Diego Lifeguards say the 19 foot Bayliner was spotted at the end of Nautilus Street around 5:45 a.m. There were six life jackets spotted in the area a few yards away from the boat but no one is in the area officials said.

On May 13, 2013, generic drug manufacturer Ranbaxy USA Inc. , a subsidiary of Indian generic drug manufacturer Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited, pled guilty to seven felony charges as part of a global settlement pursuant to which Ranbaxy will pay a total of $500 million to resolve criminal and civil False Claims Act liability.

Members of the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce gathered for the annual golf outing Tuesday at the Steubenville Country Club.