Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said Friday there were no pediatric intensive care unit beds available in Dallas, Texas and there haven't been for the past 24 hours. Surging COVID-19 cases due to the Delta variant and hospital staffing shortages in the area may be in part to blame.

People who are hospitalized with chronic heart failure should be fed fresh and balanced meals to keep their ticker in tip-top shape.

Closing Mercy hospital, an oasis in a medical desert on the South Side, would worsen racial health disparities, activists say

A survey suggests that most Americans feel that discussions about charitable support may interfere with the relationship between doctors and their patients.

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The Queens Hospital Center emergency department has a capacity of 60, but on its worst night of the coronavirus pandemic, more than 180 patients lay on stretchers in the observation bays and hallways. Alarms rang incessantly as exhausted doctors rushed from crisis to crisis. Less than four miles away, a temporary hospital opened the next morning, on April 10.

A new simpler urine test that could be done in a doctor’s office or even at home would give people with kidney stones results in as little as 30 minutes.

Cadavers, childbirth, and the rise of the Soap Industrial Complex all played a part in getting handwashing to catch on.

One of the most pressing shortages facing hospitals during the Covid-19 emergency is a lack of ventilators. These machines can keep patients breathing when they no longer can on their own, and they can cost around $30,000 each. Now, a rapidly assembled volunteer team of engineers, physicians, computer scientists, and others, centered at MIT, is working to implement a safe, inexpensive alternative for emergency use, which could be built quickly around the world.

The researchers emphasize that this is not a project for typical do-it-yourselfers to undertake, since it requires specialized understanding of the clinical-technical interface, and the ability to work in consideration of strict U.S. Food and Drug Administration specifications and guidelines.

This demanded a cross-industry summit—so now medical, security pros attend CyberMed.

How do you go about creating, in a matter of days, a large-scale field hospital that can in theory, prevent a virus from spreading beyond -- and within -- its walls?

Our experts explain what is the best healthcare marketing strategy in 2019 and make forecasts for healthcare marketing trends in 2020.

An refugee doctor would love to work in the UK, and the NHS would love to have him - but there's a hitch.

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital has found that the mental health and experiences of those receiving intrusive examinations, surgery, chemotherapy and emergency care are improved when visual art is installed.

In Strasbourg’s Hôpital civil, a bottle of Châteauneuf-du-Pape would be prescribed for bloating, while a Côtes de Provence rosé was used to treat obesity.

The U.S. government has spent $36 billion digitizing medical records for better, safer, and cheaper health care. Now the system is a mess.

A hospital has come up with an innovative way to ease young patients who are anxious before surgery: giving them miniature cars to drive to the operating room! Staff at Doctors Medical Center in Modesto, California, recently scored a miniature pink Volkswagen Beetle and a black Mercedes for their young patients heading into surgery — and now they can see the kids’ “stress and anxiety” disappear when the children get behind the wheels.