A new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in BMJ Global Health, shows that 1 in 8 patients admitted to hospitals are ...

Compared with those who spent most of their time in a single room, people with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) who were able to travel outside of their home without assistance ...

Photo credit: Kali Rubaii, (2021), Fallujah, Iraq.

The death of a 90-year-old Sunderland man on the operating table at a city hospital came after a fall which could have been avoided, a coroner has warned.

The US data also point to lower costs and shorter stays at these expert centers, an argument for regionalized care akin to ...

Ambulatory clinic settings pose unique challenges to mitigating patients’ fall risks, but these interventions can help ensure patient safety.

At least a third of hospitals routinely have dangerously large gaps in their rotas, with baby and critical care units worst ...

St. Luke’s Hospital-Anderson Campus in Easton, Pa., was hit with an immediate jeopardy warning in December after a patient ...

Health and safety reports from the Pennsylvania Department of Health cited St. Luke’s and LVHN for not complying with state ...

There are occasionally hospital patients during every severe flu season who don’t fall in the high-risk groups and are middle age and younger, Fitzgibbons said. “It’s another sign that influenza does ...

Such claims are nothing new: Self-proclaimed health prophets and doomsayers have been around for a long time, promising to ...

In-hospital mortality in patients with AMI can be predicted with a risk-standardized model that includes patient factors, such as age and cardiogenic shock.