Word: clinics
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Similar Affliction. The first deaths in the latest outbreak occurred last month in the remote southern Sudanese shantytown of Maridi. Doctors at a clinic there radioed that 46 people had died, including a physician and several nurses. Since then, reports from neighboring Zaire indicate that at least 200 people have died of a similar affliction. In both regions the victims first suffered severe headaches and high fever. Within days they were coughing, vomiting and hemorrhaging, and a third to a half of all those hospitalized later died...
Heeding the advice of health officials, Charles Gabig, 71, a retired telephone engineer, and two housewives, Mrs. Julia Bucci, 75, and Mrs. Ella Michael, 74, last week joined hundreds of other elderly people in line for swine-flu shots at an Allegheny County clinic on Pittsburgh's south side. Within six hours all three were dead, apparently of heart or lung problems. Soon similar reports were coming in from other parts of the country. Half a day after getting his flu shot, an elderly Floridian collapsed in a bowling alley and died. In Michigan, three aged people succumbed...
After an Illinois public aid worker first reported his suspicions, U.S. Attorney Sam ("the Hammer") Skinner, 38, put two lawyers and three FBI agents on the case virtually full time. They found a tangle of doctors, clinics, medical labs and pharmacies that hauled in fat Government payments and fed kick backs to one another for unnecessary or fictional patient examinations, clinic visits, tests and prescriptions. The investigation was maddeningly difficult because both patients and personnel at the ghetto health centers tended to be transient, and the fraudulent paper work involved was hard to track in the disarray of federal...
...Warren Wacker, director of the Health Services, said abortion referrals by UHS averaged less than one a week. Most of the referrals, he added, were to the Crittenton-Hastings Clinic in Brighton...
Although the staff primarily sees the Center as a drop-in clinic, Bolker said "we want to emphasize that we don't think of ourselves as a service station (to turn B papers into...