Hospital and doctor groups warned Monday that the debt ceiling deal could damage seniors' access to health care if it triggers pay cuts to Medicare providers.
CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta takes a look at how the repeal of health care reform would affect you.
My patient one day, a spry 80-year-old, started to cough and feel short of breath during a blood transfusion: classic signs of a transfusion reaction. I stopped her IV, but she needed a steroid to bring her breathing back to normal.
The new health law puts the nation's hospitals on strict notice.
New in town, Brandy Preston reasoned that it was only lunch. She liked the fact that there were no strings attached. If she didn't like the person, she could just say, "It was nice to meet you," and leave.
Nurses offer tips on how to keep yourself or a family member safe during a stay at a hospital. Elizabeth Cohen reports.
Imagine you're about to travel to a foreign land. You've heard it can be a mighty dangerous place, but you have to go there -- you have no choice. You don't know exactly where the threats lurk, and you don't speak the language. Wouldn't it be nice to have a guide?
The average time that hospital emergency rooms patients wait to
see a doctor has grown from about 38 minutes to almost an hour over
the past decade, according to new federal statistics released
Wednesday
Doctors know some patients needing lifesaving care won't get it in a flu pandemic or other disaster
We're all guilty of using our cell phones in off-limits areas. But a new study shows that in hospitals they can be hazardous to medical equipment
It's the sort of promotion you might expect from a pizza delivery chain, not a U.S. hospital system.
Today is the deadline to sign up for the Medicare Drug Plan.
Health care providers can charge the government for emergency care provided to illegal aliens beginning Tuesday.
There's a fight going on in Columbus, Ohio. It's about who can own a hospital and what choices patients should have about who takes care of them--and where. The focus is New Albany Surgical Hospita...
Before checking into a hospital, wouldn't you like to know its track record? Consider this: Since September, three Websites have started letting consumers easily gather information on their hospita...
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