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• Venezuela court: Replace faulty implants for free

  June 7, 2012 8:40 PM

  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuela's Supreme Court has sided with women who have defective French-made breast implants, saying in a preliminary injunction that the cost of removing and replacing the implants should be paid by surgeons, hospitals and a company that imported them. The court announced in a statement Thursday... more »

• Electronic health records need work

  January 27, 2012 10:13 AM

  WASHINGTON (AP) -- America may be a technology-driven nation, but the health care system's conversion from paper to computerized records needs lots of work to get the bugs out, according to experts who spent months studying the issue. Hospitals and doctors' offices increasingly are going digital, the Bipartisan Policy... more »

• DMHC orders Anthem to pay providers for services

  January 12, 2012 7:04 PM

  LOS ANGELES (AP) - State regulators have ordered Anthem Blue Cross to pay doctors and hospitals for services dating back to 2007, after the insurer failed to remediate violations revealed by a state audit. Department of Managed Health Care spokesman Rodger Butler says it's unclear how much money the medical... more »

• Study: 69M must travel longer to a trauma center

  October 5, 2011 7:49 PM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - A new study finds that about a quarter of Americans now have to travel farther to reach the nearest hospital trauma center. That's important because just one hour can spell the difference between life and death for victims of severe injury. And ordinary emergency rooms may... more »

• Hospitals face drug price-gouging

  September 23, 2011 4:56 AM

  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - A severe drug shortage of life-saving medications is endangering patients across the country. It's forcing hospitals to buy the drugs from secondary suppliers at exorbitant markups because they can't get them any other way. The Associated Press found at least 15 recent deaths are blamed... more »

• Sexual assault education in Colorado hospitals

  August 18, 2011 8:31 AM

  DENVER (AP) - Colorado authorities are trying to educate hospitals how to respond to victims of sexual assault. A 2008 law directs the state to reimburse hospitals for the cost of a rape test, regardless of whether a police report has been filed. According to the Denver Post,... more »

• Colo. guardsman sues Wis. hospital over firing

  January 1, 2011 5:50 PM

  BLACK RIVER FALLS, Wis. (AP) - A Colorado National Guard officer has filed a federal lawsuit accusing a Wisconsin hospital of firing him because of an overseas deployment. The lawsuit says David Merritt was a major in the National Guard and an emergency-room doctor at Black River Memorial Hospital... more »

• Colorado to allow nurses to give anesthesia

  September 28, 2010 8:14 AM

  Colorado has joined 15 other states in allowing advanced-practice nurses to administer anesthesia without a doctor's supervision. Gov. Bill Ritter said Monday he made the change to help rural hospitals that don't have anesthesiologists on staff. Anesthesiologists fought the proposal, saying it would put lives at risk. ... more »

• Study: Weight loss surgery is safe

  July 28, 2010 9:48 AM

  Serious complications after bariatric surgery appear to be low, according to a new study from the University of Michigan. Researchers there analyzed data on more than 15,000 patients. Overall, about 7-percent of patients who underwent weight-loss surgery like gastric bypass had complications, most of which were minor. Bariatric surgery... more »

• Climbers hit by lightning in Grand Teton National Park

  July 22, 2010 8:14 AM

  Crews on the ground and in the air resumeed the search at daybreak for a climber missing in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park. Rescue teams on Wednesday used helicopters to remove 16 other injured climbers in three climbing parties from the exposed mountain after a thunderstorm and lightning struck... more »

• Information sought in murder of Florence woman

  April 21, 2010 6:51 PM

  Police are looking for clues surrounding the mysterious death of a Florence woman, who was found dismembered at a campground in the next county. Canon City Police still have more questions than answers, partly because the 44-year old woman didn't have many friends. An autopsy showed Rebecca Magallanes' body was... more »

• CDC: MRI and other diagnostic scans have tripled

  February 17, 2010 11:59 AM

  New government statistics show the rate of high-tech diagnostic imaging has dramatically increased since the mid-1990s. From 1996 to 2007, the frequency of MRI , CT or PET scans done in emergency rooms quadrupled. And the frequency nearly tripled for doctor offices and outpatient hospital visits. The Centers for Disease... more »

• Nurses' union threatens strike over swine flu

  October 20, 2009 12:43 PM

  A nurses' union is threatening a one-day strike at 34 hospitals across California, accusing them of poor swine flu preparedness. California Nurses Association spokesman Chuck Idelson says up to 16,000 registered nurses will strike on Oct. 30 if federal swine flu recommendations aren't written into their contracts. Idelson said Monday... more »

• Questions about the flu? Call the hotline

  October 6, 2009 2:04 PM

  If you have questions about the seasonal or swine flus, the Pueblo City-County Health Department has set up a Public Health Flu Hotline to run through the flu season. The hotline will be staffed by medical professionals and is for generally healthy individuals who are able to stay home and... more »

• No kids allowed: hospitals impose visitor restrictions

  October 5, 2009 4:50 PM

  Hospitals in Colorado Springs and Pueblo are restricting children, pregnant women and people with weakened immune systems from visiting patients as a precaution against the spread H1N1 flu. At the Penrose-St. Francis Health System hosptials and the Memorial Health System hospitals, children under age 12, pregnant women and people... more »

• Report: Swine flu could overwhelm U.S. hospitals

  October 1, 2009 11:53 AM

  If a third of people wind up catching swine flu, 15 states could run out of hospital beds around the time the outbreak peaks, a new report warns Thursday. The nonprofit Trust for America's Health estimates the number of people hospitalized could range from a high of 168,000 in... more »

• Hope to get a swine flu shot at work? Not likely

  September 17, 2009 10:21 AM

  Plan on getting your swine flu shot at work? Don't count on it. The new vaccine will be rationed initially to groups most at risk of contracting the virus or developing complications - children and young adults, pregnant women, health care workers and the chronically ill. People caring for... more »