She is being held without bail at the prison ward for psychiatric patients at Elmhurst Hospital Center in the borough of Queens.
Barnhart went back to work Monday night at one of the area's other hospitals, where patients at Moore Medical Center were evacuated after the tornado passed.
Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti is investigating what he calls "credible" allegations that patients at Memorial Medical Center were euthanized in the frantic days following the storm.
Twenty-six patients at the Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Center at Civil Hospital Campus in Ahmedabad, India were given the injection 19 days before their transplant.
Andrews was easily the most anxious patient I took care of that month, a gray Michigan February (is there any other kind?) which I spent in the hospital caring for patients admitted to the general medical ward at the Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Medical Center. (Andrews is a pseudonym, as are all the patients I blog about, unless otherwise indicated.) He had plenty to be anxious about, too.
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Dr. Stephen Epstein, attending physician in the emergency department at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, said the hospital had received at least 21 patients from the explosions Monday, ranging from people complaining of ear damage to seven needing surgery for life-threatening injuries.
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Without the health care law, an additional 1.3 million additional new patients that will get care at a Community Health Center in the next two years will have to look elsewhere for health care or simply go without the care they need.
Dr. Bong Mui and his staff, evacuated with 300 patients after three hellish days at Chalmette Medical Center, arrived at the New Orleans airport, and were amazed to see hundreds of sick people.
At the hospital's heart transplant center, five patients have been cared for and will probably stay put.
Paul Han, a physician at the Maine Medical Center Research Institute, said telling patients about a confidence interval in risk data introduces ambiguity that prompts many to decide not to make a decision or to decide against a proposed intervention.
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Resistant staph infections dropped 90% at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center after it began testing incoming ICU patients for exposure to resistant staph strains and isolating carriers.
"I would definitely not want the FDA to take that away from patients, " said Dr. Deepa Subramaniam, director of the brain tumor center at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center in Washington, D.
Looking at the destruction, it's hard to believe some patients walked out of the medical center without a scratch.
At Charity Hospital, the city's major trauma center, two intensive care patients died Wednesday morning as a result of the lack of electricity and water, doctors said.
Under all current treatments, including bone marrow transplants, all patients relapse, notes Dr. Ken Anderson, director of the Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
Another study, published in the journal Phytotherapy Research in March, tested BCM-95 in 45 patients at a medical center in India and found two capsules daily had "comparable" efficacy to diclofenac sodium, a prescription anti-inflammatory, on two separate rating scales for pain, tenderness and disease severity.
At Tulane Medical Center, evacuations began early Sunday as a long line of ambulances took patients to the airport.
At the center, therapists focus on pinpointing the cause of the addiction, then help patients adjust their behavior and hone their social skills.
The use of feeding tubes in these patients does not extend life, according to Joan Teno, associate director of the center for gerontology at Brown.
Diabetes patients may be active and otherwise healthy, but "on the other end of the spectrum are very frail, sick older patients with other major health problems, " says panel member Jeffrey Halter, director of the geriatrics center at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
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King, a noted interventional cardiologist at Fuqua Heart Center in Atlanta, wrote that he was unsure patients would opt for stents if they knew the devices would not prevent heart attacks and deaths.
They have to say they have some other ailment aside from AIDS and they must say that they need to go to any hospital except the Communicable Disease Center at Tan Tock Seng Hospital -- the only place in Singapore that handles AIDS patients.
Natale, the director of the national lung cancer research program for the Salick Health Care subsidiary of AstraZeneca (nyse: AZN - news - people ) and acting medical director at Cedars-Sinai Cancer Center , says a preliminary study may help select which patients will be helped by the drug.
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