When talk turns to public health in Pakistan, the focus too often stays on hospitals, doctors, and statistics. What rarely gets attention is the quiet suffering of women in rural villages where ...

Socialist New York State Assembly member and nurse Phara Souffrant Forrest on why New York City nurses are right to be on ...

Across New York, elderly and medically fragile patients sit in hospital beds for days — sometimes weeks — not because they ...

The pediatric health care system will stop prescribing puberty blockers and hormones to young patients at the end of the month.

Joyce is 94 years old. After losing her husband, the days grew quieter. What brought her back into rhythm was Meals on Wheels Santa Cruz County, a vital program of Community Bridges. The daily visits ...

As Katy’s senior population grows, families are increasingly focused on understanding memory care, dementia-assisted ...

A good home, or Minosin Kikiwa in Cree, is the foundation of dignity in later life, according to the Indigenous seniors who ...

In 1971, Julian Tudor Hart wrote that “the availability of good medical care tends to vary inversely with the need of the population served”.1 Amid extraordinary progress in precision therapy, a ...

February is National Heart Month, and Dignity Health Mercy and Memorial are sharing heart health tips all month long to help our community take better care of the one ...

Nevada’s overdose deaths are climbing even as fatalities fall dramatically across the rest of the country, and a new hospital in Henderson is betting it can help reverse that trend by treating ...

A fourth lawsuit filed against California's Dignity Health for allegedly not notifying families of patient deaths contains a new claim -- that its contracted storage facility failed to maintain ...

San Francisco-based Dignity Health is facing a class-action lawsuit over claims that it improperly stored remains of deceased patients at an off-site morgue and routinely failed to notify next of kin ...