If the time taken by emergency services to arrive on an accident scene was cut down by 10 minutes, one-third of the victims would be saved from dying, calculate Spanish researchers.

Anaesthetists are calling for greater clarity on the legal implications of testing incapacitated patients for blood-borne viruses, after a survey found

Ten back-to-back surgeries were carried out by three surgeons at Manipal Hospital in Bangalore on a bed-ridden, fifty-nine year old woman who had been suffering from rheumatoid arthritis.

Doctors mistakenly told a British couple that they had a newborn girl, who were shocked to find that ’she’ was actually a boy five weeks later.

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A new way of sorting patients for further evaluation and treatment could cut down waiting time in emergency rooms by more than one-third and the length of hospital stay by two-thirds.

Only around half of acute hospital trusts in England have a formal chaperone policy, despite the recommendations of a public inquiry, reveals research

In an effort to beat superbugs like Staphylococcus aureus, which are resistant to many antibiotics, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool is using

A new report released by the General Register Office for Scotland has revealed that the number of deaths due to hospital “superbugs” has nearly halved last year.

Basic healthcare facilities in the government hospitals have been demanded by people in Jammu and Kashmir’s Drass area as they are facing difficulties in getting proper medical help.

New research by investigators at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center says that millions of Americans in the early stages of chronic kidney disease