Children’s minister Josh MacAlister has promised “major changes” to England’s fostering system, backed by “tens of millions of pounds” in funding. He said he would be soon be bringing forward “a ...

Dr. Mehmet Oz, the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), said the ultimate goal of the American health care system is to help increase the U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) by ...

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance. Brunkow, 64, is a senior program manager ...

Dear Dr. Roach: Nine days ago, I had a medical procedure under general anesthesia. One of the lines was put in the artery in my left wrist. Aside from deep bruising that went halfway up my forearm, it ...

In this episode, Dr. Robert Insoft, Neonatologist and Chief Operating Officer at Franciscan Children’s Campus, Boston Children’s Hospital System, shares his perspective on guiding teams through ...

A new study from University Hospitals Connor Whole Health found that music therapy interventions involving singing, active instrument play, and relaxation/imagery may be more effective for reducing ...

LOMA LINDA, Calif. & LITTLETON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Loma Linda University Health (LLUH), the institution that created the world's first hospital-based Proton Therapy Treatment Center in 1990, and ...

There is a time for everything. Now is the time for the Department of Veterans Affairs to go opioid-free. When I first began practicing medicine at the VA, it was common to “prescribe” alcoholic ...

More than three decades ago, a young second-year resident at the University of Virginia was caring for a touch-and-go patient in Room 25 of the coronary care unit. He was teamed with a nurse he’d ...

The FDA approved a gemcitabine intravesical system (Inlexzo) for adults with non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC), the agency announced on Tuesday. The indication for the chemotherapy-containing ...