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.

Patients are being put at risk because of a lack of staff awareness about discharging them from hospital, a report has said.

Authorities in England have recorded a one-third increase in the number of sepsis deaths in hospitals, a problem many blame on staff shortages and overcrowding on wards.

Syrian government forces have discovered a field hospital used by members of the Jabhat Fateh al-Sham Takfiri terrorist group, formerly known as al-Nusra Front, containing a considerable amount of Israeli-made medicine and medical supplies in the country’s strategic southwestern province of Quneitra.

Imprisoned prominent Bahraini activist Hajer Mansoor Hassan has been finally taken to hospital after being denied medical treatment for three months.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas should still remain in hospital despite his “excellent” conditions, officials have said in the wake of rumors about his deteriorating health.