All tag results for 'patient'

What's it like, being the nurses of a terrorist?

Do you just put in the bare minimum to keep the patient alive? Do you treat them with the same kindness and respect you give other patients?

For the nurses of Dzokhar Tsarnaev, they treated the younger half of the Boston Bombers to the best of their ability — but set up a pact to catch each other if

Tags: boston bombing, care, dzokhar tsarnaev, nurses, patient, treatment

SOMEONE GIVE THIS KID AS MUCH CANDY AS HE WANTS!

Or is it Pokemon cards? What do kids like these days?? LOLz!!

Apparently they like inventing things that show up adult scientists around the world — 15 year-old Jack Andraka has invented a simple test that can detect the same pancreatic cancer that Steve Jobs had… but waaaaay earlier!

Tags: blood, cancer, diagnosed, game, inexpensive, kids, men, patient, patients, science, scientists, show, steve jobs, university, world

David Beckham, soccer player and world-renouned hottie, decided that he wanted to make the entire world a little moister than he already makes it. So he chose to go visit a hospital in England, and added "amazing human being" to his "hottie" and "great dad" statuses!

Ha!

He visited wounded soldiers and young cancer patients with British actor Ray Winstone, who is also very handsome a great human, and the pair spent 90 minutes touring wards.

Tags: actor, amazing, cancer, child, children, country, david beckham, doctor, doctors, england, hospital, kids, patient, play, ray winstone, soccer, support

Oh shizz.

700+ patients at the Buffalo Veterans Administration Center may have been exposed to HIV, hepatitis B or hepatitis C because of accidental reuse of insulin pens. HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN?

Of course, the hospital is trying to downplay this egregious lapse in judgment by saying

Tags: accident, cause, change, hiv, hospital, patient, patients, problem, problems, risk, test

Paul Mason from Ipswich, England used to be known as the world's fattest man!

He weighed a whopping 980 at his heaviest!

After getting a gastric bypass to shrink his stomach, he was able to drop an unbelievable 600 pounds!

The problem is, now that he's a manageable 350 pounds, he's still got all that extra skin

Tags: england, fat, fitness, losing weight, man, patient, patients, pounds, problem, skin, stomach, surgery, world

Robin Roberts had a bone marrow transplant back in September to treat her MDS.

Since then, she's been recovering, getting stronger and healthier each day.

She recently hit a big milestone, and tweeted:

Tags: better, day, happy, health, healthier, morning, patient, patients, recover, recovery, robin roberts, strong, transplant, treat, tweet, watch

We all know how terrifying antibiotic-resistant bacteria is. There's just no good way of fighting it, and it can lead to some seriously horrible things. The worst part is that the mutated bacteria is super easy to pick up — even at hospitals.

Luckily, there's a company called Galapagos that is testing a new class of antibiotics that will combat this type of super bacteria!! Though, it's only a matter of time until the bacteria mutates even stronger, right…?

Tags: awful, bacteria, balls, company, drug, effective, fight, fighting, good, hospital, infection, luck, patient, patients, science, serious