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A lot of questions remain after the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States was mistakenly sent home from the hospital with the diagnosis of a “low-grade fever from a viral infection,” according to a recent article in The New York Times. Nurses and doctors at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas failed…

As you are driving down the highway, those commercial trucks weighing 25 to 50 times the size of your vehicle may be driven by operators who spent only 10 hours in a classroom and none on the road before receiving their license, according to a recent article in The New York Times.  Despite being ordered…

The Supreme Court is set to argue next month the privacy of jury deliberations and how to address dishonesty during jury selection, according to a recent article in The New York Times.  Supreme Court precedents and a rule of evidence currently set strict limits on inquiries into what jurors said or did during deliberations, even…

After many years of denial, the National Football League has finally recognized that rate of severe brain damage in its players that is much higher than the general population, according to a recent article in The New York Times. The NFL has stated in federal court documents that it expects nearly a third of retired…

The rare and usually mild enterovirus D68 has been recently sending kids in several Midwest cities to the hospital, worrying parents and doctors alike. Here are some things you should know about the virus, according to NBC News: How dangerous is this virus? It does not seem to be causing an epidemic (at least not…

Long-term use of several common anti-anxiety and insomnia drugs may increase the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease later in life by as much as 51 percent, according to a recent CBS News article.  A recent study found that people who took benzodiazepines – which includes Valium, Ativan, Xanax and Klonopin – for more than three…

The Medicare “five-star” rating of nearly 3,000 nursing homes across the country may be misleading to the true state of the facilities due to incomplete information, according to The New York Times. The issue is that Medicare bases their ratings largely on self-reported data by the nursing homes that the government does not, in turn,…

A common mindset within the medical community is that American patients are not very skilled consumers of health care and assume high prices mean high quality, but a recent study proves that may not be true.  Tests like MRIs show some of the widest price variation in American medicine, often varying by a factor of…

After numerous instances of resident assaults and other serious problems that have gone uncorrected, a Central Ohio nursing home is in the process of having its license revoked, according to the Columbus Dispatch. Bon-Ing Care and Rehabilitation of Gahanna was found to have violations that posed “immediate jeopardy” and “real and present danger” to residents…

Even as the world’s most technologically advanced country, the United States is ranked 34th among developed countries when it comes to the rate of infant mortality, according to a recent article in The Columbus Dispatch. Ohio, meanwhile, is currently ranked 43rd in the nation for the same statistic. A strong link between infant mortality rates…