One of the questions I get asked is: “What’s the best position to sleep in?” There’s an old doctor joke where the patient says, “It hurts when I press here. What should I do?” The doctor says he has a ...

When a hospital patient is taking antibiotics, the next person to use the same bed may face an elevated risk of infection with the dangerous germ Clostridium difficile, a new study suggests. C.

Dorothy Twigg was living on her own, cooking and walking without help until a dizzy spell landed her in the emergency room. She spent three days confined to a hospital bed, allowed to get up only to ...

(Reuters Health) - If the previous occupant of a hospital bed received antibiotics, the next patient who uses that bed may be at higher risk for a severe form of infectious diarrhea, according to a ...

Margo Smith refused to go home because she needed a special bed. Oct. 22, 2013— -- A Connecticut hospital had to go to court to evict a patient who refused to leave the facility in a fight over a ...

Dorothy Twigg was living on her own, cooking and walking without help until a dizzy spell landed her in the emergency room. She spent three days confined to a hospital bed, allowed to get up only to ...