The family of a 9-year-old Indiana girl bitten by a venomous snake received a medical bill totaling $142,938 that included a $67,957 charge for four vials of antivenin, according to a Kaiser Health ...

Being bitten by a rattlesnake in the great outdoors is bad enough. What's even worse is that some Bay Area hospitals are running short of antivenin to treat patients. A production problem with a ...

If a copperhead snake ever sinks its fangs into your flesh, chances are you'll get the same antivenin used to treat rattlesnake, cottonmouth and water moccasin bites. But no one really knows if that ...

LOS ANGELES – Warm weather is luring rattlesnakes from their holes and tourists to the wilderness, creating potentially deadly confrontations at a time when the drug used to treat bites is in short ...

When Ray Grasshoff saw his 3-year-old beagle, Jack, tossing a brightly striped snake violently in his mouth on June 9, then rubbing his snout, he remembered a rhyme from his childhood days working ...

Hospitals are facing a critical shortage of the antivenin used to treat rattlesnake bites at a time when the poisonous reptiles are most likely to come in contact with people venturing outdoors. “It’s ...

Be extra careful when you go traipsing through the East Bay hills or the Sierra this summer. If you get bitten by a rattlesnake, your local hospital might not have enough antivenin to treat you. A ...

If you’re one of those pet owners who would do anything to save your animal’s life, this is story you will want to hear. A woman from northwest Houston was left in limbo after her dog’s close ...

The arrival of a Baltimore County woman at a White Marsh clinic with a cobra bite to her finger touched off a two-state scramble for antivenin to save her. Meanwhile, her story – that she had come ...

An experimental drug tested on Tucson children who suffered potentially fatal scorpion stings appears ready for federal approval, University of Arizona scientists say. The drug — an antivenin known as ...

A man was in fair condition Friday after doctors scrambled to find dozens of vials of antivenin to combat a potentially fatal bite from the man’s pet cobra. Drew Yeager, 34, of Haymarket, Va., was ...

At the dawn of a new snake season, hospitals are facing a temporary shortage of antivenin used to treat the swollen, blackened legs of hikers bitten by rattlers that have slithered out of their winter ...