This last December, an emergency room doc (thought to be female based on the handwriting) wrote a note to the widow of a patient she had treated in the Emergency Department of New York Presbyterian Hospital.

FORBES: ER Doc's Letter To Surviving Spouse Goes Viral (2M+ hits) On Reddit

There's one other patient in line for a face transplant through the same Department of Defense grant that funded Wiens' procedure, Janis said.

CNN: Face transplant patient ready to go home

New Hampshire's health department is asking everyone who was a patient in Exeter's operating rooms and the intensive care unit between April 1, 2011, and May 25 of this year be tested.

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For instance, a cardiac patient may be referred to the diabetes department who may have to call in the advice of a respiratory therapist, but all will be linked back to the weight loss clinic.

BBC: 'Tsunami' of obesity-related disease warning for NI

In two years the new stent went into some 7, 600 patients--and malfunctions occurred in more than 2, 600 of the cases, leading to 12 patient deaths, the Justice Department says.

FORBES: Dangerous Devices

Hours after the hearing, Millicent Tidwell, acting deputy director of licensing and certification for the California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs said Morningside is not licensed to perform residential in-patient rehab or addiction treatment and lacked the appropriate license to provide residential treatment or recovery programs.

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