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The identities of two women involved in a horrific car crash in Arizona last week were mixed up, with one family receiving news that their daughter had died when in fact she was undergoing treatment for her injuries while another family kept watch at her side for six days.

Same-sex partners must get the same privileges granted heterosexual couples in hospitals that get Medicare or Medicaid funds, he says in a memo.

President Obama late Thursday ordered most hospitals in the country to grant the same visitation rights to gay and lesbian partners that they do to married heterosexual couples.

As in, post one at the door of your hospital room so you can bond in peace.

Doctors who attended to the King of Pop at UCLA's Medical Center ran two EKGs on him, and one doc...

Staffers at an eastern Chinese hospital have been disciplined after the bodies of 21 fetuses and infants were found improperly discarded near a river, according to officials and media reports.

With an overhaul, Congress would be giving the health care industry millions of customers in the next few years.

Former President Bill Clinton has left the Manhattan hospital where he underwent a heart procedure, a close friend said Friday.

Desperate Haitians turned rubble-strewn streets and parks into makeshift hospitals and refugee camps on Thursday in the absence of any noticeable response from authorities in Haiti after Tuesday's earthquake.

Washing your hands in hospitals can actually make you more likely to pick up infections, according to a leading bacteriologist.

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the suspect in last week's Fort Hood shooting rampage, is conscious and talking, according to the hospital where he is being treated.