New York is a hotspot for fraud within the nursing home industry, with many facilities belonging to chains that aim to ...

During a recent visit to a skilled nursing facility, a nurse made an insightful comment that stuck with me: "You can’t ...

But according to a surprising new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), those are actually not the ...

‘I can’t abide this illness’, she told me. It was then that she started seriously to discuss assisted dying, and, although it ...

Older adults who receive a dementia diagnosis in a hospital or nursing home have significantly lower survival rates than those diagnosed in the community, a new study shows.

People with dementia are almost twice as likely to move following receipt of the diagnosis compared with individuals ...

That is the message from leaders of West Nottinghamshire College, Nottingham Trent University (NTU) and Sherwood Forest ...

Children who have coughs that go on for weeks may have a type of walking pneumonia that’s been surging in the US this year, ...

Medicine has long treated race as though it provides important information about the underlying biology and genetics of disease, a strategy that has had an enormous impact on diagnosis and treatments.

The Icahn School of Medicine has announced a $5 million gift from the John and Daria Barry Foundation for the Center for ...

Nuclei.io, a new tool developed by researchers at Stanford Medicine, allows physicians to use artificial intelligence to ...

An extremely rare and highly contagious form of scabies known as crusted scabies can occasionally affect people with ...