The patient was recently treated at an emergency department in Flagstaff and died the same day, Northern Arizona Healthcare ...

Pneumonic plague is both “the least common and most dangerous type of plague,” according to the Cleveland Clinic.

Warning: Disturbing content A Wisconsin nurse who amputated a patient’s frostbitten foot without authorization and planned to use it as a ghoulish display in her family’s taxidermy shop was given a ...

For many people, weight loss is often framed as a matter of willpower – a simple equation of exercising regularly and eating a healthy diet. But, Dr. Sindhura Bandaru, an ...

For many patients and families, choosing hospice is not about giving up. It’s about letting go -- of fear, of unrelenting ...

"I feel most proud of this (screening study), because I feel this could really move the field,” said Dr. Richard Frank.

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Michigan Patient Dies from Rabies After Contracting Disease Through Transplanted Organ The person received the transplant at a hospital in Ohio in December, before they died the following month ...

Three people are accused of abducting a patient from a care facility in hopes of gaining control of a conservatorship, California police say.

Paradromics, a brain-computer-interface startup, inserted its brain implant in a person—briefly—in an early test of its technology.

Medical journals are generally full of straight, double or tall talk from and about doctors. For a change, some back talk from a patient has appeared in the British journal Lancet. This particular ...

Three people are accused of abducting a patient from a care facility in hopes of gaining control of a conservatorship, California police say.