A Son Used a Bucket Truck to Visit His Mother on the Third Floor of Her Assisted Living Home
Charley Adams hasn’t been able to visit his mom Julie at her Ohio assisted living home because of coronavirus restrictions, so he came up with a clever way to visit…
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Police: UConn Health Doctor Arrested after He Coughed on, Hugged Nurses
A UConn Health doctor has been arrested after an incident in which police said he intentionally coughed on and hugged nurses, police said.
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Brooklyn Man Arrested for Assaulting FBI Agents and Making False Statements About His Possession and Sale of Scarce Medical Equipment
A Brooklyn man, Baruch Feldheim, 43, was arrested for allegedly coughing on FBI agents while claiming to have COVID-19, and with lying to them about his accumulation and sale of…
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Elderly Woman Dies after Being Smacked for Not Social Distancing in NY Hospital
An 86-year-old woman awaiting treatment for bowel blockage at a Brooklyn hospital yesterday died after being punched by a fellow patient — for not engaging in “social distancing” amid the…
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Minnesota Nursing Home Offers Visits Via Robots
She lives just ten minutes from her parent’s skilled nursing facility, yet Carla Smith can’t go in to see them, so she works her laptop keyboard, steering a robot on…
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Man Dies after Ingesting Fish Tank Cleaner Containing Chloroquine for COVID-19
A man in Arizona is dead and his wife is in critical care after the couple ingested a non-medication form of chloroquine phosphate to stave off COVID-19, according to Phoenix-based…
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Spanish Army Finds Care Home Residents ‘Dead and Abandoned’
Spanish soldiers helping to fight the coronavirus pandemic have found elderly patients in retirement homes abandoned and, in some cases, dead in their beds, the defence ministry has said.
Read More »Nurse Shot at Kentucky Hospital after Patient Fights with Security Officers
A patient at the Medical Center in Bowling Green was arrested March 19 after he allegedly shot a nurse in the leg at the Kentucky hospital following an altercation with security officers, according…
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Colorado Funeral Home Operators Arrested for Illegal Body Part Scheme
The operators of Sunset Mesa Funeral Home in Montrose, Colorado, Megan Hess, age 43, and her mother, Shirley Koch, age 66, were arrested for illegally selling body parts or entire…
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Attackers Use Fake HIV Test Results to Target Insurance, Healthcare, and Pharmaceutical Companies Globally
Proofpoint researchers observed cybercriminals impersonating Vanderbilt University Medical Center and sending out fake HIV test result emails that attempted to lure recipients into opening malicious content embedded into the message.
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