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Nurses at two of New York City’s largest hospitals went on strike Monday, potentially leading to disruptions in care around emergency room visits and childbirth, after lengthy weekend negotiations over a new contract stalled. Frustrated nurses chanted and waved signs outside Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx and Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan demanding higher wages. The walkout involves...

Coronavirus-related hospital admissions are climbing again in the United States.

A discharge from the hospital turns into months of struggle for one North Texas woman mistakenly declared dead.

Texas continues to see an increase in flu and RSV infections with 91% of pediatric beds in the state being full.

One person is dead and a person of interest is in custody after a shooting at an Arkansas hospital Wednesday morning.

Many American hospitals are looking abroad for health care workers, saying they’re facing a dire shortage of nurses amid the slogging pandemic

“We cannot look past the strain on our health systems and substantial number of deaths,” Dr. Rochelle Walensky said.

Dr. Jason Chertoff tries to focus on the positive and why he got into the medical profession: to help people. But at the Ohio ICU where he works, morale is rapidly depleting as the unit again fills with COVID-19 patients – most of whom are unvaccinated. Chertoff says he’s tried to convince people to get their shots – meanwhile, staffing...

CVS Health raised its full-year earnings outlook on Tuesday, saying Covid vaccines and at-home tests lifted retail sales.

Hospitals around the U.S. are increasingly taking the extraordinary step of allowing nurses and other workers infected with the coronavirus to stay on the job if they have mild symptoms or none at all.

Of those admitted to hospital with omicron, 17 people had received their boosters, 74 were double vaccinated, and 27 were unvaccinated.

Medical experts agree that even if symptoms are milder, the sheer volume and spread of omicron infections still poses a threat to health care systems.

The health-care executive joined a growing number of executives who have expressed concern about the rise in organized crimes.

CVS said it will provide more medical care at drugstores and people’s homes to make it easier and more affordable for customers to stay healthy.

Americans will soon be protected from many unexpected medical bills, thanks to a new law that goes into effect Jan. 1.

Walter Reed is a sprawling military hospital which is used by presidents of the United States for treatment. The naval base there is on lockdown.

Bill Clinton has returned to his home in New York to continue recovering from an infection that left him in treatment for six days at a Southern California hospital.

Patient advocates and some state governments say hospitals must do more to help patients deal with medical bills before the debt winds up in collections.