Adrian police arrested a person on an open murder charge after a hospice patient fatally overdosed with medication, ...

Patients with previously treated metastatic pancreatic cancer lived roughly twice as long on a daily oral drug called ...

Extraordinary things happen in the cardiothoracic intensive care unit at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. The sick rise from bed with new hearts and lungs. Machines valiantly take over for faltering ...

A federal lawsuit filed Thursday challenges a new Illinois law set to go into effect in September that would allow doctors to prescribe medication to terminally ill people to end their own lives. Two ...

A tragic case in Bhopal has drawn attention to formalin, a chemical used to preserve biological samples. Here's what formalin ...

Dying patients usually have all the emotional problems they have always had. The image of death growing up in front of them does not obliterate everything that went before. Money problems have not ...

Nurses are being forced to care for patients in corridors, store rooms, car parks and toilets as a shocking new report lays bare how the current hospital crisis is costing lives. Patients have been ...

Nurses have given a "devastating" insight into the "corridor care crisis" in NHS hospitals with testimony of patients dying in temporary escalation areas, staff unable to access lifesaving equipment ...

These would have been the questions tumbling from our lips if we were among the number crunchers at the California Department of Public Health, the agency tasked with collecting and publishing data on ...

Death is a fact of everyone’s life—not so much our own death, which is projected into some indefinite, unthinkable, future, but rather the death of others-- of those people we care about. Usually as ...