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		<title>Hospital Infections Kill 48,000 Annually</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Diseases]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A stay in the hospital is supposed to make the patient better, not worse. But according to a study funded by Resources for the Future, in 2006, 48,000 hospital patients who caught infections during their stay died. A staggering $8.1 billion cost was affiliated, reports Reuters. This is the first hospital-acquired  infections study to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Botox Overdose Blamed for Girl&#8217;s Death</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ksager</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Botox overdose is blamed for the death of a California 7-year-old girl who died in November 2007 of respiratory failure and pneumonia, after Botox injections for her cerebral palsy. The mother has filed a lawsuit against Botox manufacturer, Allergan.
Last April,  the U.S. Food &#38; Drug Administration (FDA) ordered a black box warning for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Radiation Overdoses Can Kill</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Accidental radiation  overdoses can cause serious, painful complications, sometimes resulting in death, according to a recent  New York  Times report. Americans are exposed to more radiation than ever  before: the lifetime dose of diagnostic radiation increased sevenfold since 1980 and over half of all cancer patients get radiation.
Radiation overdoses are more  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Network Hopes to Limit Medication Errors</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ksager</dc:creator>
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Medication  errors kill one person per day in the U.S., and injure about 1.3 million  every year, according to the U.S. Food &#38; Drug  Administration. Those figures compelled two leading medical  organizations to begin a national alert system to  prevent imminent and repeated medication errors.
According to their press release, the [...]]]></description>
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