Drowning is the leading cause of death in children ages 1 to 4. Other public health news is on a baby food recall at Publix; cannabis use among veterans; the importance of sunscreen among people with ...

One doctor says most wounded patients have lost weight in recent weeks while aid groups say malnutrition is on the rise ...

Most hospitals wait for a sick person to walk through ... “One night in the hospital in the U.S. costs $4,600 on average, just for the bed,” said Eric Topol, director of the Scripps ...

In the ruins of a health-care system, many medical facilities have become graveyards. Doctors continue to deliver lifesaving care—but they risk their own lives in the process.

“Tuberculosis is widespread in prison, every third person is sick ... at the hospital said that before that it was almost empty, a maximum of 10 people on a floor, and now there are queues for ...

whom I thank from the bottom of my heart,” read the message from Gemelli hospital. “And while I am here, I think of the many people who in various ways are close to the sick, and who are for ...

A while back, Robert Diegelmann completed a 10-day hospital visit ... to create more beds.” Advocates say that home hospitals are particularly beneficial for some people.

A first-person written ... health workers of this hospital for the attention they are showing me and the dedication with which they carry out their service among the sick." In the pre-prepared ...

“There is no question that if he (Francis) was in a situation where his ability to have direct contact (with people ... of bed and had breakfast in an armchair, and worked from his hospital ...

The hospital ... sick,” said Lynn Ricci, HFSC president and CEO. “We are willing to take the patients that other people are not going to take.” The credo has stayed with the 236-bed hospital ...

The figures also reveal that the number of people in hospital in England with norovirus is continuing to climb and has hit another new high for this winter. An average of 961 hospital beds were ...

She went to fundraisers and posted photos of herself in hospital beds. She shaved her head. Sometimes she would go into remission, only to tell people months later that her cancer was back and ...