Escape Prompts Hospital Scrutiny
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The escape of Kelvin D. Poke from Laurel Regional Hospital yesterday morning followed a familiar script: Get outside prison walls by going to a hospital, wait for an opportunity to seize an officer's gun and make a break for it. Poke did not make it far -- he was shot dead by Prince George's police...
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One of the two patients hospitalized at Bayonne Medical Center in connection with a recent botulism poisoning has apparently been transferred to a different hospital.
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For weeks, we&#39;ve been reporting the story of four people hospitalized in Florida. They&#39;re on ventilators after receiving injections of an anti-wrinkle substance from a Florida clinic.
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Leading doctors ask for an independent inquiry into the quality of care of severely injured patients.
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Because of a shortage of beds at Maryland psychiatric hospitals, a growing number of patients, including many who are involuntarily committed, are spending days in emergency rooms, often in violation of a state law that mandates that they be placed at a comprehensive care facility within 30 hours of...
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Whether its blue or spotted or stripped, the standard issue hospital gown is drafty and revealing. It's embarrassing for just about anyone who's spent a night in a medical center.
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A "dangerous" sex offender is being sought by police after he escaped from a hospital in Lanarkshire.
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When the doctorÂs office said to wait, a parentÂs instincts were to go directly to the hospital.
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Hospital patients are being asked to become hygiene inspectors under plans announced by a health board.
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Concern is raised about a new service brought in to provide medical cover outside surgery hours.
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A massive police search has been launched after Lee Nevins escaped from the Royal Sunderland Hospital.
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VICTORIA&#39;S health system is in crisis with revelations that mentally ill patients are being &quot;shackled&quot; to trolleys in public hospitals.
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The latest daring escape by a prisoner who grabbed a guard's gun while at a hospital has renewed debate over whether firearms should be carried at all by authorities watching over inmates at medical centers.
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Ke'tavious Johnson has spent half his two years in a hospital, getting poked and prodded by doctors and nurses trying to keep him alive. He still hasn't gotten used to it.
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The nation&#39;s leading patient-safety oversight group will call Wednesday for hospitals to do more to keep patients from &quot;waking up&quot; during surgery - a sometimes horrifying experience
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If you&#39;re sporting one of those yellow LiveStrong bracelets, you might want to take it off before visiting your local hospital.
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PORTLAND, Maine - Whether its blue or spotted or stripped, the standard issue hospital gown is drafty and revealing. It's embarrassing for just about anyone who's spent a night in a medical center...