It's an unfortunate fact that people with severe respiratory illnesses are often confined to hospitals, where they must breathe through ventilators. A new portable device that harvests oxygen from the ...

This is a Kaiser Health News story. As the number of COVID-19 patients climbs and health officials hunt for ventilators to treat them, nursing homes across the United States have a cache about 8,200 ...

Woman says husband suffering from ALS needs machine, can't get one for a year Woman says husband suffering from ALS needs machine, can't get one for a year Woman says husband suffering from ALS needs ...

After nearly two months, Eleana Topp finally opened her eyes. She looked at the white board in the hospital and saw the date: May 25. Topp had tested positive for the new coronavirus in late March.

Home health care has topped the list of nursing specialties with the most malpractice claims – with each claim representing a ...

Biomedical Engineer Juan Jesús Mejia Fernandez, right, from the National Institute of Medical Science and Nutrition, pulls a ventilator called VSZ-20-2, designed at the institute's Biomedical ...

A Friendswood man in a persistent vegetative state was transferred to a nursing home in San Antonio on Sunday, ending a battle between St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital and his family over whether to take ...

The 51-year-old contractor had no preexisting conditions, and is unsure where he contracted the virus Just two and a half weeks ago, HGTV star Eric Eremita was in a fight for his life against the ...