Health investigators in Minnesota are questioning at least one nurse at an assisted living facility after a deceased patient who was scheduled to receive 42 doses of chemotherapy medications in a 12-week period only got 26.
A Texas man who died last week of a flesh-eating bacteria infection has been identified as a carpenter who was helping to repair homes damaged by Hurricane Harvey.
A plague epidemic in Madagascar has killed 124 people since August in an outbreak that has hit the island's two main cities the hardest, the authorities said on Wednesday.
Legendary San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Dwight Clark who in March revealed he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), said in an interview Tuesday that he is “losing strength and lost 80 pounds.
Italian doctors were left bewildered when a woman was admitted to the hospital for “sweating blood” from her palms of her hands and face, a new case published in a medical journal on Monday revealed.
A high school football team is playing for more than touchdowns and stats after a relative reached out and asked if they could honor a 3-year-old girl facing a terminal illness.
Staff at the Hanger Clinic in San Francisco were able to help a 9-year-old girl regain her independence recently, after her prosthetic legs and wheelchair were destroyed by the North Bay wildfires.
Ohio police officers attempted to save a woman who was found unresponsive in her car on Saturday morning, but said their efforts failed when an ambulance crew who responded to their call never showed.
A pair of twins who were formerly connected at the head are sitting up on their own and continuing to hit crucial developmental milestones after undergoing separation surgery in June.
Retailer Meijer Inc said it was recalling packaged vegetables in six U.S. states due to possible contamination from Listeria monocytogenes bacteria, which can cause fatal food poisoning in young children, pregnant women and elderly or frail people.
Researchers from New York’s NYU Langone School of Medicine said in an interview that people are aware that they died, and might be able to hear a doctor announcing their death.
Doctors were expecting to treat a Texas woman who was mourning the death of her beloved Yorkshire terrier for a possible heart attack, only to discover that her symptoms were actually due to a broken heart.
A former Oklahoma inmate is suing for $5 million dollars in a lawsuit that claims prison officials let him suffer in “unbearable pain” after being denied treatment for a 91-hour erection.
A Florida nursing home that charged one of its residents who was killed when Hurricane Irma created sweltering conditions at the facility has blamed an automatic payment system for the error, and claims that the family has been refunded.
More than 1,100 people have contracted salmonella poisoning from chickens and ducks so far this year, with health officials pointing to an increase in backyard coops as the cause.
