VitaBeat (Free subscription) | 08/30/2008
A 15-year-old cancer patient in Britain has successfully undergone a pioneering surgery to rebuild his shoulder using his elbow. Doctors at Leeds General Infirmary had to amputate the arm of Tom Lemm in Pontefract, West Yorks, because of a tumor at the top of it. However, the surgeons created a new shoulder out of tissue and muscle from his lost elbow.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
POLICE have launched an investigation into the death of a pensioner at a top Yorkshire hospital after he was allegedly given the wrong drug medication. Musician George Pickard, 71, was recovering from a hip replacement operation at Leeds General Infirmary, but died unexpectedly on Sunday.
Postman Patel (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
Colin Norris, 32, a nasty arrogant staff nurse murdered four elderly patients with lethal injections of insulin at Leeds General Infirmary and St James's Hospital in Leeds ("Jimmy's" of TV fame) hospitals and has been given a 20 year sentence. Dying in hospital is not an unusual event. It is a fate we all fear. Dying or illness induced by the maladministration of medicines in a UK is not at all
Elder Law Prof Blog (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
A nurse has been found guilty of murdering elderly patients in his care at two Leeds hospitals. Colin Norris, 32, had denied killing the four women at Leeds General Infirmary and St James's Hospital in 2002 by injecting them with...
The Herald (Free subscription) | 02/02/2008
School pupils spoke of their shock yesterday after a 14-year-old boy was stabbed in front of them. The teenager was in a stable condition in Leeds General Infirmary after he was stabbed three times in the chest and stomach.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 01/15/2008
An 11-year-old girl dies in Leeds General Infirmary after being hit by a car on the A64 in the city.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 10/30/2007
Six infants test positive for the super-bug MRSA at Leeds General Infirmary's neonatal unit.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/17/2007
Murders of four patients at the Leeds General Infirmary were committed using insulin, a court was told yesterday.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 10/01/2007
A BUNGLING hospital cancelled 95-year-old Marjorie Fox's broken hip operation EIGHT times in a week. She was on morphine without food for hours at a time as she prepared for surgery at Leeds General Infirmary.
