A federal law that threatens doctors if they use electronic communications, such as the internet or phone, to discuss ...

Extraordinary things happen in the cardiothoracic intensive care unit at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. The sick rise from bed with new hearts and lungs. Machines valiantly take over for faltering ...

The fact is, however, that most patients who are so desperately ill know well enough that they are dying. What each person needs to know, and be reminded of, is that there is hope, as indeed there is ...

Lawmakers were expected to approve a bill that would allow doctors to help terminally ill patients to die. If the law passes, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you've ever worked closely with a dying patient as a medical professional, you may know how sensitive this time with them can ...

End-of-life medical care poses many dilemmas for hematologists as they consider treatment for their dying patients. Where do the wishes of patients and their loved ones fit in? Is home care the best ...

Dying patients and their loved ones are being "let down" by inadequate communication, a failing that is "adding to their grief," an ombudsman has warned.

Credit: Getty Images In this case, a jury was asked to decide whether a nurse practitioner’s failure to properly respond to a patient’s severe hyperthyroidism was the cause of his death. The patient, ...

I’m surprised I’m alive, really,” says Jean Cochrane. After being hospitalised in October due to a stroke, the 89-year-old ...

When Kristina Newport, MD, was a first-year medical resident doing a night shift at a small veterans’ hospital, one of her patients, who was very sick with multiple chronic diseases, made the decision ...

Everyone with whom the dying patient comes in contact is cast in the role of therapist. These persons include nurses, hospital attendants, doctors, visitors and others who pass by regularly. Each one ...