Posts Tagged ‘Mayoclinic’

Hospital Worker May Have Exposed Patients to Hepatitis

7th July 2009 by admin 5 Comments

A former hospital employee may have exposed hundreds, or even thousands, of surgical patients to hepatitis C after taking their fentanyl injections and replacing them with used syringes filled with saline solution, authorities say.

A hospital worker has admitted to secretly injecting herself and using unclean syringes for patients.

Kristen Diane Parker, who worked at Rose Medical [...]

Antioxidants May Interfere with Breast Cancer Treatment

13th June 2009 by admin No Comments

Think that vitamins can only help–but never hurt–a condition? Although that’s true in many cases, some vitamins can be harmful to certain people or under special circumstances.

Doctors are not sure exactly how antioxidants affect people with breast cancer, shown here.

Now a new study shows that many breast cancer patients take powerful antioxidant vitamins during [...]