A six-month-old baby died yesterday after receiving accidental overdose of antibiotics at a Brooklyn hospital yesterday. "We love this baby. Oh, my God. It's just so messed up. His life was over in a second. I just can't believe it," cousin and caretaker Jhora Akther told the News. more ›

A pediatric nurse at NYU Langone Medical Center is suing the school because she says her medical records were not kept private. But it seems that things were even more awkward than that for pediatric nurse Kristen Haight—who was allegedly better known to the doctors and secretaries of the medical center as the "41-year-old virgin." more ›

The drunken construction worker who admitted to brutally beating a nurse at a Hell's Kitchen bar last year was sentenced to 16 years in prison yesterday. Mbarek Lafrem, a 32-year-old Moroccan man, had pleaded guilty to charges of assault and attempted sex abuse in July, with his lawyer saying Lafrem thought it was the "right thing" to do. But at the sentencing yesterday, he tried to withdraw his plea deal at the last minute, which was rejected by the judge. “It does appear to be a boilerplate motion filed by many defendants who are often having buyer’s remorse, so to speak, after having time to contemplate their plea. It appears to be a last-ditch effort,” said Shanda Strain, an assistant district attorney. more ›

An 11-year-old boy was "completely blue and unresponsive" when a nurse saw him by a Staten Island YMCA pool, so she told lifeguards, "I am a nurse, I know CPR," and was able to help revive him after two minutes. Pamela Glennon told the Advance, "His color came back immediately." more ›

Anyone who's ever known an addict, or seen the TV show Intervention, knows how serious and debilitating addictions can be, and just how low some addicts would go for a fix. But licensed practical nurse Erick St. Louis, who rummaged through used medical waste to satiate his addiction, might be one of the worst cases we've heard of. more ›

A terminal cancer patient has been reunited with his daughter after 41 years when he was placed in her unit at Calvary Hospital. Wanda Rodriguez said she saw Victor Peraza had been transferred to her hospital, and "got nervous, very anxious, and I said, 'Oh my God that's my father's name...what chance is there it's my dad?'" It turns out it was. Victor Peraza said, "It was fate and hope and a miracle. It was like God answered my prayers." more ›

Nurse Jessie Joiner of the William Benenson Rehabilitation Pavilion in Queens has been charged with endangering the welfare of a vulnerable elderly person and willful violation of health laws after she allegedly pushed an 85-year-old woman out of her wheelchair and left her writhing on the floor with a broken hip! A surveillance video from March 20th shows Joiner entering a room and jerking the woman's wheelchair with such force that she falls on the ground. Though that could have been an accident, Joiner then walks out of the room, leaving the woman on the floor. more ›

A man attacked and possibly raped a pediatric nurse in a bathroom stall in the midtown bar Social, police said. The perp fractured the 30-year-old woman's skull, and broke her eye socket and nose after she reportedly refused to dance with him in the three-story Eighth Avenue bar and lounge. more ›

A nurse is suing Mount Sinai Hospital, claiming the institution "forced" her to assist with an abortion, despite her pleas. The Post reports, "The hospital even exaggerated the patient's condition and claimed the woman could die if the nurse, a devout Catholic, did not follow orders, the nurse alleges in a lawsuit." more ›

Almost a dozen school nurses say they're not being paid for the days the city closed their schools due to the swine flu outbreak. Most of the nurses in question got sick themselves or have children who became ill, but not one of those troupers called in sick during the crisis when the schools were open. One Queens school nurse tells the Daily News, "You couldn't leave people when they were that scared. It was chaos. I had a thermometer in each pocket—you had to be like an octopus." more ›

Administrators at Flushing Hospital looked the other way as a doctor sexually harassed a nurse for years, culminating in a pair of violent attacks in 2001. Nurse Janet Bianco, 55, says Dr. Matthew Miller began groping and propositioning her soon after she started working at the hospital in 1993. She tells the Daily News that the 61-year-old physician, who is married, was "very bold, aggressive, he didn't even try to hide it. Patient rooms, hallways, it didn't matter. Wherever he was, it occurred. And I wasn't the only one." more ›