Maine Hospital Issues Redesigned Gowns
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PORTLAND, Maine - Whether it's blue or spotted or striped, 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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New medical guidelines allow experienced nurses as well as doctors to decide on resuscitating patients.
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The Boston Redevelopment Authority yesterday approved a master plan for Brigham and Women's Hospital that calls for a 350,000-square-foot clinical facility at 70 Francis St. The BRA also authorized a notice of intent to take by eminent domain the Glass Slipper strip club on LaGrange Street near Chinatown. That alerts the property owner the BRA can take the property after ...
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Adiences of an exhibition are being invited to see what they would look like if they had cosmetic surgery.
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New medical guidelines allow experienced nurses to decide on resuscitating patients.
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The return of silicone breast implants continues.
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The traditional doctor's white coat is to be changed as part of government plans to tackle hospital infections.
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THERE WASN'T a whisper of opposition last week at the state Public Health Council as Massachusetts General Hospital presented its plan to replace some old buildings with a $498 million complex that will include a larger emergency department, 71 surgical suites, and 150 new beds. The council approved the plan unanimously, but the expansion raises the question of whether the ...
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The struggles of a venerable Atlanta charity hospital mirror those of other public hospitals across the nation.
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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute will announce the largest hospital fund-raising campaign in New England history today, hoping to raise $1 billion to turn the rapidly growing scientific understanding of cancer into better treatments for cancer patients.
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Hospital patients are being asked to become hygiene inspectors under plans announced by a health board.
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Montgomery General Hospital announced yesterday that it would become part of the far larger MedStar Health, a move that adds to the considerable changes taking place on Montgomery County's hospital landscape.
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A novel fabric mesh sleeve that  works like a girdle to reshape enlarged hearts showed promise  in treating patients with heart failure and will be submitted  for U.S. regulatory approval this year, according to  researchers and the company that makes the device.
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"Pink glitter, please!" said Michele Pinczuk, eyeing all the artistic possibilities arrayed in containers spread across her hospital bed.
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Doctors and patients are travelling to Manchester for tests which a hospital says could be carried out in Bangor.
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From the 1960s onward, advances in hospital architecture have radically changed accommodations for family members.
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NEW YORK  - Whether a doctor wears business attire, casual clothing or scrubs seems to make little difference in a patient's satisfaction with treatment, the results of a new survey show.