Showing posts with label My Fox NY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label My Fox NY. Show all posts

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Dr. Craig Spencer Is 'Ebola free'

AP, Nov. 11, 2014, My Fox NY

An emergency room doctor in New York City who had Ebola was released from the hospital on Tuesday.

Dr. Craig Spencer, 33, joined Mayor Bill de Blasio and several other health officials outside Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan to address the media.

Spencer tested positive for the virus Oct. 23, just days after returning from treating patients in Guinea with Doctors Without Borders.

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Wednesday, November 12, 2014

CBS' Logan Quarantined After Ebola Report

David Bauder, Nov. 10, 2014, My Fox NY

Lara Logan of CBS News is being quarantined in a South Africa hotel for three weeks as a precaution after visiting an American-run hospital treating Ebola patients in Liberia for a "60 Minutes" report that aired Sunday.

CBS said Monday that Logan's 21-day self-quarantine will end this Friday. Neither Logan nor the four other CBS employees in South Africa have shown any sign that they are infected with the virus.

Logan, speaking in a "60 Minutes Overtime" web interview from the room where the CBS crew put its report together, admitted to some cabin fever as she waits out her stay. She said the South African government had given the crew permission to work at the hotel.

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NY: Clinic That Treated Joan Rivers Made Mistakes

AP, Nov. 11, 2014, My Fox NY

A report released by the state Department of Health cites Yorkville Endoscopy for numerous deficiencies related to the Rivers case, although negligence is not alleged.

Investigators found conflicting information in Rivers' medical records regarding the amount of the sedation drug Propofol she was administered and the time resuscitation was initiated. They also faulted the clinic for allowing a surgeon who was not a member of the medical staff to perform two nose and throat scoping procedures and noted that a staff member took cellphone photos of Rivers and a surgeon while she was under anesthesia.

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