Nurses to decide on resuscitation
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New medical guidelines allow experienced nurses to decide on resuscitating patients.
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Dutch health officials are considering guidelines doctors could follow for euthanizing terminally ill people &quot;with no free will,&quot; including children, the severely mentally retarded and patients in irreversible comas.
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A patient died at a troubled hospital after an intensive care nurse ignored her worsening condition and alerted doctors only after the woman went into cardiac arrest, Los Angeles County health officials said.
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Hospitals will be allowed to claim for the cost of treating people injured at work, under plans being considered.
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A hospital in the Netherlands &#151; the first nation to permit euthanasia &#151; recently proposed guidelines for mercy killings of terminally ill newborns, and then made a startling revelation: It has already begun carrying out such procedures, which include administering a lethal dose of sedatives.
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CONCORD, NH -- Federal health officials posed several questions to the state Thursday about proposed Medicaid changes. Health authorities want to know how the state would set limits on care, how it would decide
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Government safety regulators are considering a new fire safety standard for mattresses that officials say could save hundreds of lives a year.
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The announcement sent China, the U.S. and its allies to debate whether diplomatic efforts could be resuscitated.
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Ambulance staff say they will hold a strike ballot if management do not agree to discuss their concerns.
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SUMMERFORD, Ohio - A woman says her life was likely saved when she answered a hang-up phone call.    Mary Dhume was watching television Monday night when the phone in the next room rang...
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A hospital says it may have to ask a court to decide whether to continue treating a seriously-ill baby.
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Doctors say delivering specialist treatments to heart attack patients directly, not taking them to A&E, could save lives.
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Emergencies responded to quickly beat targets but concern remains over  patients waiting to be taken to A&E.
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LOS ANGELES Members of LA County&#39;s Board of Supervisors are scheduled to vote tomorrow on the fate of the trauma center at Martin Luther King Junior/Drew Medical Center.
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VICTORIA (CP) - Right to die issues for the terminally ill and others are expected to be played out in a Vancouver Island courtroom where an elderly Victoria woman is charged with helping two women end their lives.
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Air rather than oxygen should be used to resuscitate newborn babies and may even save lives, research suggests.
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Doctors attending to Yasser Arafat will decide in the next few hours whether to take the ailing Palestinian leader to a hospital. Our correspondent, Jane Hutcheon, says two teams of doctors from Egypt and