When Kea Turner’s 74-year-old grandmother checked into Virginia’s Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital with advanced lung cancer, she landed in the oncology unit where every patient was monitored by a bed alarm.

Iranian authorities say for a first time in four decades the country is adding 8,100 hospital beds to further expand a healthcare system that is lagging behind in some remote areas.

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says one of its officials who has been in Saudi detention for more than five months has been transferred to the hospital because of health complications.

If it’s September then there must be a huge anti-austerity movement getting underway in France, because that’s been the case every year since 2010 and this year is no different.

A hospital paid the estate of astronaut Neil Armstrong $6 million in a confidential agreement to settle allegations that post-surgical complications led to his death seven years ago, according to court documents.

Britain's Chris Froome suffered a fracture to his neck in Wednesday's serious crash, scans showed.

Syrian army soldiers have uncovered a considerable amount of medical supplies, some of them German-made, in a field hospital belonging to members of the so-called civil defense group White Helmets in the country’s western-central province of Hama.

"Patients who were seen in an emergency department that was not associated with where they received cancer treatment or one of the 14 major cancer centers in Ontario Province of Canada were less likely to be admitted to hospital but more likely to die within 30 days of the visit," said Dr. Keerat Grewal, an emergency physician at Mount Sinai Hospital, and the University of Toronto.

Football great Pele arrived back in Brazil Tuesday after receiving treatment for a urinary tract infection during a six-day hospital stay in France.

A dozen newborn babies whose deaths at a Tunisian state hospital sparked public outrage are believed to have been killed by an infection acquired in the clinic, the acting health minister says.

More than half of the local authorities in England have cut their budgets for alcohol and drug treatment, even though admissions to hospital for problems related to addiction are soaring, said MPs.

Almost 4,000 incidents where equipment being used in the care of patients in Irish hospitals failed have been reported over a three-year period.

All smokers who are admitted to hospital in the UK will be encouraged to quit as part of a long-term plan, National Health Service (NHS) England said.

Almost 1,000 elderly people a day are being admitted to hospital needlessly amid a crisis in social care, Age UK has found.

Immigration officers in the US arrested a man who was driving his wife to hospital to give birth.