At Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Brookline, doctors ready to go home at the end of their shifts were told to stay after reports of a gun battle and explosions peaked fears of another mass casualty event around 1:10 this morning, said Dr …

Police are seeking a suspect in the Boston bombings who is described as a ‘dark-skinned or black male’ carrying a backpack, while authorities are also reportedly questioning a potential suspect at an area hospital, according to reports.

Thomas Menino has fractured a bone in his lower leg, the latest in a series of health issues that have dogged the city's longest-serving chief executive.

A Palestinian prisoner from east Jerusalem died in Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv on Wednesday afternoon after suffering from an infectious disease, the Israel Prison Service announced a few hours later. The prisoner, 59-year-old Ali Kara'in, was serving …

The single-engine medical plane, which also carried a 17-year-old man with a tropical disease, took off from Contamana airport after 300 taxis turned up to help.

Livery car driver Israel Nunez of Hollis, Queens, in his hospital bed at Jamaica Hospital. Nunez, 47, disappeared after being attacked and bludgeneoned in the head but was later found along the curb and misidentified by the hospital for six days while …

One of two teens lost for several days in a rugged mountain wilderness was released.

But in the end the Vatican refused to provide any financial assistance and last week a Rome court certified the hospital as insolvent. IDI workers have occupied the hospital's management area and are buying food to help needy co-workers while …

Italian police have arrested a Catholic priest accused of pocketing 4 million euros ($5.1 million) from the coffers of a Catholic hospital he ran and helping run up 600 million euros in debts that forced the clinic into bankruptcy and prompted the …

The woman was told she was exaggerating her son’s condition by staff at Leeds General Infirmary (pictured) – where paediatric heart surgery has been suspended.