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Essex MA
News
450 Patients File Lawsuit Against Salem Hospital After Potential Exposure To HIV, Hepatitis
Patients have filed a class-action lawsuit against Salem Hospital after nearly 450 of them say they were potentially exposed to HIV and hepatitis through their IVs. Endoscopy patients at Salem Hospital “were potentially exposed to infection due to the administration of their intravenous medication in a manner not consistent with our best practice,” the hospital said in a statement to the Daily Voice. The patients were potentially exposed over two years. It all started with one contractor, who no longer works at Salem Hospital, according to a hospital spokesperson. Salem Hospital said it s…
Delaware
News
Journalist Josh Kruger Knew His Suspected Killer, Philadelphia Police Say
Philadelphia police have obtained an arrest warrant for a suspect in the killing of journalist and activist Josh Kruger. Robert Davis, 19, is wanted for murder and related offenses, PPD Lieutenant Hamilton Marshmond said during a press conference on Friday, Oct. 6. He is considered armed and dangerous by authorities. The lieutenant said Kruger and Davis were acquaintances and that Kruger was "just trying to help him get through life." Kruger previously worked with the Office of Homeless Services and said his "unique combination of lived experience with homelessness, …
Bucks
Obituaries
Murder Of Philadelphia Activist Josh Kruger Leaves Trail Of Devastation
Shock and sadness spread following the murder of Philadelphia activist and journalist Josh Kruger. Josh Kruger, 39, was shot seven times in his home on the 2300 block of Watkins Street around 1:30 a.m. Monday, Oct. 2, in the Grays Ferry section of the city, police said. He was pronounced dead at Penn Presbyterian Hospital at approximately 2:15 a.m. No arrests had been made as of press time. On Sept. 30, Kruger tweeted out that he was being pressured into selling his home. These people are total creeps. I left them a voicemail explaining that my only plan for selling the house is after…
Cliffside Park-Edgewater
Police & Fire
Drunken Man With .327 BAC Puts Fist Through Restaurant Window, Bleeds On Cliffside Police
A drunken man who put his fist through a Guatemalan restaurant window bled all over Cliffside Park police while trying to fight them, authorities said. Marcus Camargo Machado, a 39-year-old Brazilian national who lives in Palisades Park, recorded a staggering .327 blood-alcohol level, Deputy Police Chief Vincent Capano said. Machado also told EMS workers that he’s HIV positive, forcing bloodwork at Palisade Medical Center in North Bergen that found he isn’t, the deputy chief said. Machado was angry about something when he shattered the window at La Estancia at the corner of Palisade and Wa…
Prince George's
Police & Fire
Officer Who Exposed Suspect To HIV During In-Custody Sex Assault Gets Max Term
A former Fairmount Heights police officer who was positive for HIV got the maximum sentence for having ex with a suspect who was in his custody back in 2019, potentially exposing her to the virus, officials say Martique Vanderpool, 33, was sentenced to three years, with credit for time served, after being found guilty by a jury in January on a charge having sex with an individual who was in his custody, Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Aisha Braveboy announced. Braveboy said that while on duty on Sept. 6, 2019, Vanderpool took a woman into custody during a traffic stop and had s…
Suffolk NY
News
Covid-
19: Immunocompromised People May Need Fourth Dose, CDC Says
Some Americans may require a fourth shot of the COVID-19 vaccine if they are immunocompromised, according to new federal guidance. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said that adults 18 and older who received the Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccines and are moderately or severely immunocompromised may get a fourth dose at least six months after getting their third shot, the guidance states. Officials cautioned that Johnson & Johnson recipients “should not receive more than two COVID-19 vaccine doses,” though a second is recommended. The CDC authorized a thir…
Rivertowns
News
Covid-
19: Study Reveals Who's Most At Risk For Breakthrough Infections
Researchers have identified groups of vaccinated people who may be the most at risk for suffering severe outcomes from COVID-19 breakthrough infections. According to a report from Medical News Today, the study looked at more than 6 million people who have received one or two doses of COVID-19 vaccine in the United Kingdom. One of the paper's co-authors, Dr. Aziz Sheikh, said only a small number of the more than 5 million people who received two vaccine doses remained at risk for COVID-19 hospitalization and death after being vaccinated. "We saw relatively few deaths in individuals wh…
Lyndhurst
News
Feds: Message App Shows How Pair Stole $10M Worth Of HIV Meds From NJ Veterans Hospital
UPDATE: Encrypted messages outline how a former pharmacy worker stole $10 million worth of HIV medications from a New Jersey veterans hospital with the help of a black-market fence from Bergen County, authorities charged. Surveillance cameras had already caught pharmacy tech Lisa M. Hoffman of Orange stealing the drugs from the shelves of the outpatient pharmacy at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) in East Orange, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said earlier this year. According to an indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Newark this week, federal agents also s…
Hudson
Police & Fire
More Than A Dozen From Hudson County Charged In $11M Medicaid Fraud
Several people from Jersey City, Bayonne and elsewhere have been accused of taking part in a scheme in which prescription drugs provided free through the federal Medicaid program were illegally sold to a New York pharmacist, Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said Thursday. Elfatih Ibrahim, 58, of Brooklyn, who owns Maxwell Pharmacy in Manhattan, was the ringleader in the bi-state scheme, authorities allege. Ibrahim received prescription medications from patients who got the drugs for free, then sold them for cash to a “runner” who brought them to Ibrahim, the Attorney General’s office said. …
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park
News
HealthPlus: Patient Tests Positive For Hep C, Anguished Couple Files Lawsuit
A HealthPlus patient has tested positive for hepatitis C after the surgery center released a statement saying that thousands of patients were exposed to HIV and other blood borne pathogens. As of Saturday, 186 of the 3,788 patients possibly exposed to diseases at the Saddle Brook center went for testing, NJ.com reports. A report from the New Jersey Health Department found "multi-dose medicines were improperly dispensed and lapses in sterilization procedures occurred, primarily concerning orthopedic instruments and surgical trays," according to Mark Manigan, a lawyer representing the su…
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park
News
Thousands Possibly Exposed To HIV, Hepatitis At Saddle Brook Surgery Center
In what the state health department is calling an "abundance of caution," a surgery center in Saddle Brook is urging thousands of people who underwent procedures at the facility between January and Sept. 7 to get tested for HIV and hepatitis. State health officials said more than 3,000 patients at HealthPlus Surgery Center may have been exposed to the bloodborne infections due to "deficiencies in infection control" involving the cleaning of instruments and injection of medications, ABC7 reports, citing the center's surgery administrator Betty McCabe. The following letter was…
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park
Lifestyle
Transgender Elmwood Park Model Shares Her Story To Destigmatize HIV
A transgender model from Fair Lawn is speaking up on behalf of those who may not feel comfortable talking about their identities and sexual health. Elmwood Park native Carmen Carrera, currently of Fair Lawn, is joining actor and singer Julian Walker and comedian Daniel Franzese in sharing their perspectives on healthier sex in a new sex-positive campaign by biopharmaceutical company Gilead: Healthysexual. Since launching in 2017, the Healthysexual campaign has helped generate meaningful conversations among individuals at risk for HIV and their healthcare providers about healthy sexual behav…
