Automated external defibrillators, or AEDs, are designed to save lives, but a new study finds that some 1,150 deaths over 15 years were tied to devices that failed to work — and nearly one in four failures was caused by battery problems.
Bad batteries in AEDs tied to cardiac deaths
Posted in Health by healthnutter 266 days agoU.S. newborn death rate tied with Qatar
Posted in Health by healthnutter 269 days ago
Babies in the United States have a higher risk of dying during their first month of life than do babies born in 40 other countries, according to a new report.
Paralysis tied to food poisoning in U.S., Mexico
Posted in Health by healthnutter 306 days ago
A cluster of cases of a rare illness that can lead to nerve damage and paralysis, now centered along a small stretch of the United States-Mexico border, may have been caused by an outbreak of food poisoning, health officials in the two countries said.
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