Church nurses aim to fill in U.S. health care gaps
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Mel Bamel, 81, has been in the coronary unit of the hospital for just over a week. He's feeling a little better today. He was able enjoy the artichokes his daughter Liz brought over for dinner last night.
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While many foreign doctors are drawn to the United States to treat underserved poor and rural areas, some experts and health officials say the physicians are needed more at home.
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Health centers staffed by trained   midwives are the key to reducing maternal deaths in poor   countries where more than half a million women die each year   giving birth.
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A group of the largest commercial hospital chains plans to propose that individuals be required to have basic health coverage.
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New medical guidelines allow experienced nurses as well as doctors to decide on resuscitating patients.
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The first woman arrived with seesawing high blood pressure. Another walked in with a handful of pill bottles and a history of chest pains. Yet in the clinic's small waiting room in Bethesda, they and half a dozen other people shared more than worries over heart problems.
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More than 500 striking nurses at Mt. Clemens General Hospital are raising a question that medical centers across the country are struggling to answer: How many patients can one nurse care for?
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Mercy Clinic's doors won't open for another hour, but already the waiting room is crowded with patients. A grandmother, a single man, a petite brown-haired woman with a slight cough and her boyfriend -- they've all come to this Gaithersburg clinic, one of 10 across Montgomery County that care for...
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With a religiously mixed population, aid efforts have meant reaching out across faith barriers.
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Nearly three decades after Washington area faith leaders founded a movement for affordable housing, there is a new push -- particularly in the District -- to revive the effort and get the clergy to see housing as an urgent mission field.
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PEORIA, Ill. -- Federal employees and their dependents in 27 Illinois counties now have the option of enrolling in a Catholic-run health insurance plan that does not cover abortion, contraceptives or fertility treatment.
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A group of U.S. hospitals on Thursday offered a plan to cover the nation's 47 million uninsured, including mandatory coverage for all and subsidies for the working poor.
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Around the United States, there are perplexing geographic variations in medical expenses and the quality of care.
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The U.S. government and several mobile phone companies have announced a $10 million initiative that takes advantage of cell phone networks to improve heath care in the developing world.
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More than a century ago, Western missionaries began streaming into Africa looking for souls in need of salvation. Now, conservative American priests say it's their church that needs saving.
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A group of nursing school classmates are part of a growing contingent in Saturday&#39;s Race for the Cure, to benefit the Susan B. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.
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Our health care system is a frustrating mix of routine miracles and scandalous failures. The miracles abound; Bill Clintonâs recent open-heart surgery was cutting-edge a few decades ago.