Patient And Hospital Characteristics Patients’ demographic characteristics used for risk adjustment included age, sex, and twenty-nine comorbidities collected by the Nationwide Readmissions ...

(THE CONVERSATION) For patients hospitalized with chest pain, the amount of time they spend sedentary afterward is linked to a greater risk for more heart problems and death within a year. That’s the ...

A Stamford, Connecticut, man received the gift of life when he was given a kidney from his coworker and friend.

Various studies demonstrate the importance of the airborne route of infection transmission in the hospital setting. (19) On one hand, it seems unreasonable to allow recirculation of return air into ...

Yes, you are reading, he has booked 100 rooms in the hospital just to keep Hema Malini’s pregnancy a secret. The truth was revealed by Hema Malini’s close friend, Neetu Kohli, during her appearance at ...

A hospital inpatient who died after falling around 30ft from a seafront tower told staff he had no intention of harming himself before being granted unescorted leave. The body of Tom James was ...

A surgical team at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) extracted the tumors, which had wrapped around the spinal cord, through the patient’s eye socket. This was the first time ...

The five-year research project Harry has been a part of was focused on long-term ICU patients and family members at the Canberra Hospital, examining how interactions with therapy dogs impacted ...

An East Bay family already struggling with their toddler’s cancer diagnosis was dealt another major blow this week when someone stole their van from a hospital parking garage in Oakland.

to survive longer both within patients and on surfaces around hospital wards. The common hospital-acquired, antibiotic-resistant bacterial infection is known to cause infections in the blood ...

The joint federal-state health insurance covers an unusually large share of mental health patients, and hospital industry ... to enter through the emergency room when they're in a crisis," she ...

We've seen tense, 11th- hour standoffs between hospitals and health insurers for years-- but rarely at John Dempsey Hospital, the UConn Health unit that's Connecticut's only taxpayer-owned hospital.