hospitals

Health authorities around the U.S. are increasingly taking the extraordinary step of allowing nurses and other workers infected with the coronavirus to stay on the job if they have mild symptoms or none at all.

U.S. hospitals bracing for a possible onslaught of coronavirus patients with pneumonia and other breathing difficulties could face a critical shortage of mechanical ventilators and health care workers to operate them. The Society of Critical Care Medicine has projected that 960,000 coronavirus patients in the U.S. may need to be put on ventilators at one […]

DALLAS (AP) — A Texas judge on Thursday sided with a hospital that plans to remove an 11-month-old girl from life support after her mother disagreed with the decision by doctors who say the infant is in pain and that her condition will never improve. Trinity Lewis had asked Judge Sandee Bryan Marion to issue […]

You don’t expect to die when you go in for a routine procedure. Sadly for the family of Rosemary Abreu, that is indeed their reality. People.com reports that Abreu went to Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx, N.Y. last month to have a cyst drained in her thigh. Yet somehow, the 27-year-old, a mother of two, […]

CHICAGO (AP) — Opioid poisonings and overdoses are sending increasing numbers of U.S. children and teens to the hospital, according to a study showing a substantial rise in young patients needing critical care. The study included accidental poisonings along with overdoses from intentional use. Prescription painkillers were most commonly involved, but heroin, methadone and other […]

This is the second time in recent weeks that the autoimmune disease has sent the "Un-Break My Heart" singer to the hospital.

Texas passed a new law which allows guns into some psychiatric hospitals across the state, because that makes total sense, right?! Click on the audio player to hear what more on this baffling legislative move in this edition of The Jazzy Report on The D.L. Hughley Show! Listen to the “The D.L. Hughley Show” LIVE weekdays 3-7 p.m. EST! RELATED: Pending […]

Researchers looking at doctors' interactions with patients in Western Pennsylvania found that doctors were more compassionate towards Whites than Blacks.

DALLAS (AP) — They drew his blood, put tubes down his throat and wiped up his diarrhea. They analyzed his urine and wiped saliva from his lips, even after he had lost consciousness. About 70 staff members at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital were involved in the care of Thomas Eric Duncan after he was hospitalized, […]

MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Some nurses in Liberia defied calls for a strike on Monday and turned up for work at hospitals amid the worst Ebola outbreak in history. In view of the danger of their work, members of the National Health Workers Association are demanding higher monthly hazard pay. The association has more than […]