The standoff in New York reflects a larger shift in American health care, as consolidation among hospital systems collides with rising costs, staffing shortages, and growing pressure on frontline ...

Christy Souders of Keansburg has faced multiple agonizing medical problems, and now has been forced to find a new pain-care ...

Delivering a baby is hard work. Aptly named labor, the process before childbirth can be physically and emotionally taxing — and even painful. While no two patients experience labor and delivery ...

Medicine teaches heroic endurance even when research says rest restores emotional bandwidth and cognitive clarity. The result ...

A woman who arrived at Christchurch Hospital's emergency department in acute pain died the next day after staff missed signs ...

About fifteen years ago, as a young house officer on call in the labour room of a general hospital in Abuja. One night, I made a mistake that stayed with me.The woman's labour was long. To ease the ...

As a nurse for 31 years, I stand with the striking NYC nurses who refuse to accept exhaustion, injury and disposability as ...

CPR kits, triple antibiotic ointment, tweezers and other essentials that might save you a trip to the ER.

The strike affects at least two dozen hospitals and hundreds of clinics.

Alice Hunter, a 62-year-old nurse who works in the virtual medical center at Kaiser’s Anaheim Medical Center, has a rainy day ...

It's day 18 of the New York City nurses' strike and while there is still no end in sight, the nurses are holding a day of ...