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For people with severe food allergies even the slightest exposure can mean a trip to the hospital. Peanut allergies can be lethal, especially for children. But now there's a new weapon to help sniff out danger, CBS station WCBS-TV reports. Sherry Mers founded Angel Service Dogs Academy in Colorado earlier this year after training a dog to help protect her own highly allergic daughter, Riley.

Rhode Island Hospital, located in Providence, will pay $150,000 and install video cameras in all of its operating rooms after performing its fifth wrong-site surgery since 2007, according to the state's department of health.

T he “grateful” husband of a Massachusetts General Hospital doctor nearly stabbed to death last week on the job reports she “continues to improve every day.” Though still hosp...

Ljubljana- Slovenia reported its first death from swine flu after an elderly woman succumbed to the illness, local media reported Tuesday. The woman, between 50 to 60 years old, was admitted to Ljubljana hospital on Friday, where her condition deteri...

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A man charged with murdering two fellow inmates at a Melbourne psychiatric hospital was friends with one of the victims, police say.

A woman is recovering in hospital after being rescued by Kent firefighters from a blaze caused by a cigarette.Neighbours alerted emergency services after spotting smoke coming from the terraced home o...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Contaminated fresh ground beef caused a possible E. coli outbreak that killed two people and sent 16 to hospitals, federal health officials said yesterday.

A House bill provision would order a study of regional variations in Medicare spending, pitting more rural hospitals against those in areas like New York City.

We're past the time for Halloween costume plotting now, but a cool costume idea just submitted by a reader is worth filing away for next Halloween -- or having fun with all through the year. Sue Ellen Holmes writes of how she made a biker costume that uses a wheelchair as part of the costume. 'This costume will now come with us on trips to the mall and the hospital, as it evokes a friendly response from others! Sometimes I feel like parents are afraid to let their kids ask questions or approach Jimmy, and this Performance Harley Davidson Motorcycle Wheelchair breaks that barrier. I took Jimmy to the mall to trick-or-treat, and people stopped to get their pictures taken with him.' Read how she did it, then share the special-needs costume that worked for you this year. More Parenting Tips: Tips of the Day | Behavior ABCs | Parenting Book Reviews Image by Terri Mauro Turn a Wheelchair into a Biker Costume originally appeared on About.com Parenting Special Needs on Tuesday, Novem