Allergic Individuals Should Carry Two Doses Of EpiPen Says Quebec Coroner

Quebec coroner Jacques Ramsay has recommended that Canadians suffering from severe allergies should carry two doses of EpiPen (epinephrine) or the Twinject, which// provides a double dose in the same applicator, instead one to avoid potentially deadly situations. He has also called for manufactur...

Michael Jackson Joins Tragic List of Accidental Celebrity Deaths Caused by Prescription Drugs, Says eDrugSearch.com

...sn't the common everyday junkie…" 3. JUDY GARLAND. The Wizard of Oz star was found dead in her London bathroom by her husband in 1969. coroner Gavin Thursdon said the cause of death was an accidental overdose of Seconal. 4. HOWARD HUGHES. The germophobic genius and subject of Martin Scorc...

Los Angeles Area Non-Profit OneLegacy Grows Into World's Largest Tissue Recovery Organization

...neLegacy. OneLegacy recovers tissue from deceased donors at hospitals, coroner offices and funeral homes, and then distributes the recovered tissue to lar...es and sterilization; and additional staff who work closely with hospitals, coroner offices and funeral homes. Last year, OneLegacy received 57,000 calls ...

Sun Mar Health Care Claims Ownership of Sold Facility

...-A citation -- the worst -- last February when a 91-year-old resident was improperly moved, dropped on her head and died nine days later from what the coroner described as blunt force trauma to the head. From paperwork to care, this company seems to have such extensive problems that I can only shudder at the...

Online Counterfeit Pills Kills Woman

...ne, the B.C. Coroners Service confirmed Thursday A coroner is warning the public about the danger of buying d...a only with a doctor's prescription, said Regional coroner Rose Stanton. "In the days prior to her de...enic and lead. In her judgment of inquiry, coroner Kerry Clarke said further tests found "significant...

Government Mulls Closure of Hospital Where a Woman Died Unattended in ER

...ers were. Rodriguez died a short time later of a perforated bowel that probably occurred in her last 24 hours of life, the Los Angeles County coroner ruled. Experts have said her death might have been prevented had she received treatment sooner. But this episode has drawn national attention...

Womans Death increases Pressure on LA Hospital to close down

... to Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital for treatment of what the county coroner later determined was a perforated bowel on May 9th. She waited 45 minutes, without treatment, before she died. The County coroner believes that she would have survived if had received timely help. The ...

Young People Who Died Suddenly, Inexplicably Had Genetic Heart Defects

...nd treated, if necessary, he says. “Families who have lost a loved one to sudden unexplained death should now know that they can do more if the coroner or medical examiner is unable to provide an explanation for their loved one’s sudden and unexplained death,” Dr. Ackerman says. “Postmortem genetic te...

Indian Doctor In Britain Arrested, Bailed For Manslaughter

... police spokesperson confirmed that Harikrishnan had been arrested and bailed on suspicion of manslaughter. She added: 'We have been asked by the coroner for Sunderland to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of a man in Sunderland Royal Hospital in September last year. The inquiry is sti...

Super Bug Strikes Again, Many Deaths Reported

... London: A coroner has issued a warning about the imminent health risk from the super bug C-Diff, thought to be the reason behind the death of 15 people, that took place...