Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Patients fill a row of chairs while waiting to be seen at an emergency room in Fresno. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times) If you’re ...

Measles remains one of the most contagious infectious diseases, spread through coughing and sneezing, with even small ...

Days before the federal government revoked Weiss Memorial Hospital’s Medicare access, state investigators found the hospital had been operating a “makeshift” emergency department in an office building ...

Across Southern California, emergency room workers are primed for the wave of patients that pour in as heat waves like the current one drag into their second, third and fourth days. Heat takes an ...

Just eight months ago, a non-urgent patient at Sault Ste. Marie’s Sault Area Hospital’s ER might have waited more than six hours before being seen. The hospital, where I work as an ER physician and ...

Baruch is professor of emergency medicine and director of the Medical Humanities and Bioethics Scholarly Concentration at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Cara M. squints and ...

Syracuse, NY – The baby boy came into Upstate University Hospital’s emergency room screaming and struggling to breathe. “A very sick baby coming in,” the intercom crackled. He needed to get to the ...

The Air Force has turned the emergency room at its Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center into an urgent care. It says ...