Andre and Korisha Shipley were still mourning the death of their 17-year-old son, Jesse, when two months after his funeral, they received shocking news from students of the same Staten Island, New York, high school Jesse had attended. Members of a forensic science club on a field trip to the morgue couldn't believe what they noticed on a cabinet in the medical examiner's lab.
Newborns in the U.S. are routinely screened for disease, and their DNA is stored indefinitely, and often without consent.
Misdiagnosed as being in a coma, a Belgian man is now communicating after 23 years. ITN's Robert Moore reports.
A man presumed to have been in a vegetative state for five years has communicated with the outside world for the first time since suffering severe head injuries in a car crash, researchers said Thursday.
The top lessons learned from Empowered Patients in 2009 will help you become one in 2010.
Two friends of mine recently received the same letter in the mail from their internists: Fork over $1,500 or you're out of my practice.
More and more doctors are converting their practices to concierge medicine. CNN's Elizabeth Cohen reports.
They want to pay me for the use of my body. No, I'm not vain, nor is anyone trying to push me into prostitution. They want me (and you) to be subjects in medical studies.
Chuck Toeniskoetter says he's alive today because of a nurse and a paramedic who came to his aid when he collapsed one snowy day high atop a mountain.
Barry Mendez gave one of his kidneys to a stranger -- a good-natured act that has stirred concern among medical ethicists.
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