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The Las Vegas attack is the deadliest mass shooting in US history

The suspected gunman in the mass shooting at a music festival in Las Vegas has been named as 64-year-old Stephen Paddock.

At least 50 people were killed and more than 200 injured at the Route 91 country music event near the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino.

It is still an active scene on the Las Vegas strip. Country music star Jason Aldean was headlining the evening’s concert lineup and was onstage when the shooting began.

It is the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history, with the death toll surpassing the 49 killed at a nightclub in Orlando in June 2016.

A nurse’s Target trip took an unexpected turn after she found herself delivering a fellow shopper’s baby.

Caris Lockwood, 24, of Atlanta was shopping with family members at the discount store on Aug. 25 when her mother noticed a woman in labor, Tanya Saint Preux Picault, 30.

Lockwood, a labor and delivery nurse at Piedmont Healthcare, sprang into action.

“I really wasn’t nervous,” she told ABC News. “It was certainly an incredible experience, and [I] truly believe it was one of those moments where God placed the right people in the right place at the right time. I’m grateful that I was there and able to help bring Tanya’s baby into the world.”

Picault said she began feeling contractions after leaving a restroom. Soon after that, Lockwood’s mother approached her.

“She came back and said, ‘Can I just have my daughter, who’s a labor and delivery nurse, come and look at you?'” Picault recalled.

Twenty minutes later, outside the entrance of the store, Picault gave birth to her fourth child, a boy named Maleek, weighing 7 pounds, 10 ounces.

“We commend the nurses and medical staff as well as the Target team members who jumped in to help a woman who delivered a baby in a Target store in Georgia,” a spokesperson for Target told ABC News. “We’re happy to hear that the mother and baby are doing well and wish them all the best.”

Picault and Lockwood said they’ve kept in touch since the birth.

“God had her there for me that day,” Picault said. “She did such a great job. It was on the news, and I recorded it so I can show [Maleek] as he gets older.”

WORCESTER — An Alford man charged with stabbing a nurse in the face with a pen Monday at UMass Memorial Medical Center — University Campus has been ordered by a judge to undergo an outpatient psychiatric evaluation to determine whether he could be found criminally responsible for his alleged actions.

Loren Rosenburg, 34, who has a seizure disorder, was released to the custody of his mother after being arraigned Thursday in Central District Court on charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, assault with intent to maim, mayhem and two counts of assault and battery on a police officer.

Mr. Rosenburg allegedly became angry with a nurse Monday and proceeded to stab her in the face several times with a pen, causing a mutilation of her upper lip that is expected to require plastic surgery to repair, according to court records. When police officers came to the nurse’s aid, Mr. Rosenburg allegedly kicked one officer in the groin and another in the shin.

His lawyer, John P. Garrity, told Judge Janet J. McGuiggan that his client, who has no criminal record, was being treated for seizures at the time of the alleged assault and had no memory of it. At his request, Mr. Rosenburg underwent a preliminary criminal responsibility evaluation by psychologist Alan Schonberger, a court clinician, who said the alleged attack may have been related to Mr. Rosenburg’s seizure disorder and recommended a further evaluation, either outpatient or at Bridgewater State Hospital.

Judge McGuiggan released Mr. Rosenburg in the custody of his mother, Lila Drumm, and ordered that the court clinic arrange for an outpatient evaluation. The judge continued the case to Oct. 30.

Ms. Drumm told a reporter that her son, who has had epileptic seizures since childhood, continued to experience seizures despite being on medication. She said doctors at UMass had taken her son off his medications and were limiting his sleep in an effort to induce seizures so they could determine whether the brain activity that was causing them had shifted to a different part of his brain. It was during this process that the alleged attack occurred, she said.

She described her son as “mild-mannered” and said he called her early Monday morning, before the alleged assault on the nurse, in a “psychotic” state, telling her, “They’re trying to kill me.” Ms. Drumm said her son was being monitored by a video camera at the hospital and cried when he was later shown a video of the assault. Ms. Drumm said she expressed her concerns over the call to hospital staff.

“At UMass Memorial Medical Center, we are fully committed to providing a safe workplace for all of our employees. We sympathize with all of the individuals involved in this incident and are constantly working to strengthen our Workplace Violence Prevention Program, UMass Memorial Medical Center President Patrick Muldoon said in a released statement. Mr. Muldoon said other steps the center has taken to improve safety and security include daily briefings to address issues that may affect patients and caregivers and the creation of a Workplace Violence Prevention Committee charged with developing a comprehensive strategy to reduce the threat of violence in the workplace.

A Georgia woman who beat cancer twice is now living her dream as a pediatric nurse at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta — the same hospital where she received treatment as a child.

Montana Brown, 24, was first diagnosed with Rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare form of childhood cancer, when she was only 17 months old, according to the Times Enterprise. Brown was treated at CHOA for a year before she was released.

Brown relapsed at the end of her freshman year of high school and required another year of treatment before she was considered off-therapy.

On Sunday, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta shared Brown’s story in a Facebook post:

As a child, Montana beat cancer—twice. First at age 2 and then again at 15. Along the way, she dreamed of growing up to become a pediatric nurse. This week, notably during Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, Montana fulfilled that dream by joining our nursing team!

7Up—the lemon-lime soda sometimes thought to be named for its original seven main ingredients—now has a troubling eighth ingredient in Mexico: methamphetamine.

Health professionals in Arizona are warning travelers to the Mexicali area to be aware of possibly contaminated sodas there. The warning comes days after medical toxicologists and emergency doctors received reports of soda tampering in the area.

According to the Attorney General of the State of Baja California, seven people were sickened and one died from the spiked soft drinks. Officials requested that merchants there suspend sales of 7Up and clear the product from their shelves. And an investigation is now in progress to figure out how the illicit stimulant got into the soda.

Chris Barnes, a spokesperson for Dr Pepper Snapple Group, told Arizona news outlet AZCentral that 7Up products in the US were safe. “None of the 7Up products sold in the US are affected by the issue being reported in Mexico,” Barnes said. “Dr Pepper Snapple owns and licenses the 7Up brand only in the US and its territories. We do not market, sell, or distribute the brand internationally.”

Health professionals recommended travelers stay watchful of the beverages they buy. “It is important to check that the seal for any food and drink consumed is still intact and show no signs of tampering,” Dr. Daniel Brooks, a poison and drug expert with Banner Health, said in a statement. “If you notice any difference in color, taste, or smell, throw it out.”

Symptoms of consuming meth-laced soda include: burning to the esophagus or abdomen, nausea, vomiting, difficulty breathing, and fast or irregular heartbeat.

This is not the first time 7Up has contained a potent drug. When the soda was first released in the 1920s, it contained lithium citrate, a mood-stabilizing psychiatric drug that’s used to treat manic states in people with bipolar disorder. Some have theorized that the soda got its name from the atomic mass of lithium, which is roughly seven.

CVS Pharmacy is changing how it fills painkiller prescriptions in an effort to prevent opioid addictions.

The company is expected to announce a policy change Thursday making it so pharmacists will only give a 7-day dose of painkillers for new patients with an actuate ailment. That includes patients who had surgery and are expected to have a short recovery.

Under the policy change CVS pharmacists can ask doctors to revise a prescription if they find it’s more than what a patient needs for recovery. When patients pick up painkillers, pharmacists will now warn them of addiction risks and encourage them to take the medication for a shorter period of time.

As one of the country’s biggest pharmacies, CVS is hoping these changes will have a ripple effect getting more doctors to rethink how they prescribe painkillers.

That could make a big difference in Michigan which is one of the states where the most painkiller prescriptions are written, according to the CDC.

Since another big cause of opioid addictions is from extra painkillers someone leaves sitting in a medicine cabinet, CVS will also add safe disposal sites at many stores.

NEW YORK — A 1-year-old New York City boy died after his father apparently attempted to cure his chronic cough with a home remedy that included leaving the baby alone in a steamy bathroom, sources told WPIX.

Mordechai Halpern was found unresponsive at his Brooklyn home on East Second Street, between Cortelyou Road and Ditmas Avenue in Kensington, Thursday around 5:15 a.m., police said.

EMS responded and transported the baby to a hospital, but he died before arriving, police said.

Halpern previously had bronchitis, an acute or chronic condition that involves coughing, and the baby began coughing again when his father decided to give him a mixture of lemon, sugar and water, according to sources.

He then took Halpern into a bathroom, where he turned on hot water in the shower, and left the baby alone in a stroller near the toilet, sources said. The father then left the bathroom and fell asleep.

The boy’s mother had an alarm set for 5:00 a.m., but when she went to check on him Mordechai was unresponsive, according to the New York Daily News.

Sources told the paper that the child’s body temperature was 108 degrees when he died. Mordechai’s body showed no visible signs of trauma, according to police.

The medical examiner will determine his cause of death.

Imagine choosing a hospital because they advertise making a woman’s natural birth experience empowering–and then having a traumatic and debilitating experience that forever changes your life for the worse. Well, sadly, that’s what happened to Caroline Malatesta. Her experience left her with PTSD and a painful, permanent physical injury.

Malatesta was pregnant with her fourth child when she made the decision to give birth at Brookwood Medical Center in Birmingham, Alabama, because the hospital claimed to specialize in natural births. Her first three births were typical, medicated deliveries. Of course, Malatesta interviewed a doctor at the hospital to discuss what she wanted, which included being in labor in any position.

However, when Malatesta when into labor in March, her experience was anything but what she previously discussed. When she went into her birthing room, the nurse told her she had to go to the bathroom right away, because she couldn’t “get out of the bed for maybe for the rest of labor.” Malatesta protested, stating:

“I told her that my doctor said I’d have wireless monitoring and that I would be able to be mobile, but the nurse said my doctor wasn’t on call. From that point on, it became a back-and-forth of ‘But my doctor said I could’ and ‘But you don’t get to.’ The nurse treated me like a disobedient child!

I was resisting, but at the same time, I was trying to accommodate because you’re vulnerable, you’re in labor. I do get into the bed, I do put on a gown (even though the hospital advertised you could wear your own clothes), I do get on my back, even though it was very painful.

I kept asking, ‘Why? Why?’ but the nurse wasn’t answering me. She ignored me, acting almost annoyed with me. As we went back and forth — me asking questions and telling her this was more painful for me, and her getting increasingly irritated — it became very clear that this wasn’t about health or safety. It was a power struggle.”

While all of this was happening, Malatesta’s water broke and her baby’s head started crowning–but instead of letting her choose whatever position she wanted to be in, the nurse physically forced her on her back. Even worse, one of the nurses literally held her baby’s head into her vagina to prevent him from being delivered–which is completely insane. Malatesta described how traumatic the experience was:

“The nurse pulled my wrist out from under me and flipped me over on to my back! Then another nurse held my baby’s head into my vagina to prevent him from being delivered. The nurses were holding me down, and I was struggling — really struggling. I grabbed the side of the bed, and at one point, I even put my foot up against the nurse’s shoulder and face to try and get leverage to flip back over, but was unsuccessful.”

This went on for about six minutes, while her husband watched in shock and confusion (since he assumed something must have been wrong). Malatesta ended up suffering a permanent injury called pudendal neuralgia–a debilitating nerve condition that means she is often in pain and hasn’t been able to have sex since.

According to Malatesta, she and her husband had to move in with her parents to get help with her kids. Luckily, her son, Jack, was born without any problems, however.

After trying to settle the matter with the hospital, Malatesta ended up having to go to court because the hospital administration were unresponsive. Two years later, Malatesta won the lawsuit and was awarded $16 million for her injuries. Sadly, however, the damage was already done.

While Malatesta has gotten validation over the case, nothing compares to not living with endless, debilitating pain.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A Navy hospital in Florida has removed some employees from patient care after Snapchat photos showed a nurse giving the middle finger to a newborn with a caption that said, “How I currently feel about these mini Satans.”

Jeanne Casey, spokeswoman for the Naval Hospital Jacksonville, said in a statement released late Monday said the incident is “outrageous, incredibly unprofessional, and cannot be tolerated.”

The Snapchat post also said the “navy nurse” and her friend made a baby dance to rap music.

Casey says the employees have been removed from patient care and they will be handled by the legal system and military justice. She said the hospital was in the process of notifying the parents of the babies.

The statement didn’t say how many employees were involved in the incident.