As emergency room doctors nationwide plead for help to ease patient overcrowding, the one federal program that could fix the crisis is poised to lose funding. Across the U.S., ER patients who need to ...

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 ...

Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Emergency room doctors see the worst-case scenarios, the weird fluke accidents, the mysterious ailments ...

Editor's note: The episode "Night Shift" deals with topics of self-harm and suicide that may be triggering for ...

Waiting in the ER after being admitted to the hospital— also called "boarding"—is an escalating problem. Patients often board in ER hallways for hours, which also increases the chance medical errors ...

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 ...

The brash hospital show ER burst onto television screens in 1994 as part of NBC's famed Thursday night lineup and changed the landscape of medical dramas forever — or at least that's how it seems a ...