The Washington State Department of Health said respiratory illnesses have made up nearly 14% of emergency department visits ...

After severe abdominal pain sent her to the ER, a Canadian woman faced a 15-hour wait, as physicians warn of worsening ...

John Douglas Cox, 66, says his life was forever changed in 2021 after a delay in care at a local emergency room. “When someone comes into the emergency room with new-onset paralysis, every hour ...

A mother of three is alive thanks to a rare, lifesaving operation by medical professionals at Northwestern Medicine.

Ask emergency-room doctors what haunts them the most, and you might hear that it’s not just the severity of what they see—it’s the familiarity. Over and over again, they treat people for accidents ...

Hallway beds cut into the bones that sustain emergency medicine, shaving away layers of the moral tenets and high standards, ...

The ER typically treats about 85 patients a day, but during spring break that number has climbed as high as 125.

An Omaha woman’s trip to the emergency room for a ruptured appendix led to the discovery of a two-pound kidney stone — and a first-of-its-kind robotic surgery in Nebraska that saved her kidney.

In March alone, about 7.2% of visits have fallen into that category.

As a parent, you may get the gut feeling that your little one isn’t well when their cough sounds more serious than usual—or when their fall seems a bit too serious. When that happens, the last thing ...

People over age 65 who spend long hours in an Emergency Room are at greater risk of delirium. That risk may rise as more people lose health insurance and turn to the ER for medical care.