Patients who revisit the emergency department shortly after discharge are at high risk for complications and death, exacerbated by COVID-19 screening workload. Detection efforts impact outcomes.

The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) is a test used to detect mild cognitive decline and early signs of dementia. It can help identify people at risk of Alzheimer's disease and screen for ...

UPMC Jameson in New Castle and UPMC Horizon-Greenville are open 24 hours a day and accepting patients. Additional staffing has been scheduled as of January 6 when Sharon Regional Medical Center ...

The prime minister is set to unveil plans to reduce NHS waiting times to 18 weeks before the end of parliament as part of efforts to ensure it does not "go the way of Woolies", the UK's health ...

The NHS App will be overhauled to give patients more choice under the elective reform plan, which is set to be announced this week. Health Secretary Wes Streeting said the move will shift the NHS ...

The changes will allow patients who need non-emergency elective treatment to choose from a range of providers, including those in the private sector. But the British Medical Association (BMA ...

A surgeon operating on a cancer patient managed to catch the deadly disease in what is thought to be a first-of-its-kind event. The doctor performing the surgery accidentally “transplanted ...

The change is among radical shake-up of procedures aimed at reducing waits for millions of patients in England and reducing pressure on the health service. Currently, many patients sent by their ...

India has scaled back visa operations in Bangladesh, hitting thousands of patients who visit its hospitals for critical care, and bleeding India’s own medical tourism industry of revenue.

A study on the "healthcare quality of Bangladesh and outbound medical travel to Thailand" showed that local patients have a positive perception about medical services in Thailand, making it a ...

In April 2021, a provision in the 21st Century Cures act took effect which required that all medical test results be released to a patient's electronic medical record as soon as they become available.

With seven per cent of the population killed or injured since October 2023, the health crisis in Gaza shows no signs of abating. “At the current rate, it would take five to 10 years to evacuate all ...