Billions of dollars are invested in the design and construction of health care facilities each year, but few studies have evaluated the impact of hospital room design. Single-site study at the ...

DAVENPORT -- Jon McCarthy's voice is the last sound the patient hears as he drifts to sleep. "We'll take good care of you," she says. When he wakes up after the 26-minute hernia repair, Mrs. McCarthy ...

Nurses at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston are alleging that hospital officials are ignoring a statewide order to cancel elective surgeries as the hospital sees an uptick in patients. Nurses at ...

Bright lights, gleaming surgical tools, and a patient ready on the operating table. All seems to be in order, but then an alarm sounds and all eyes immediately look to you—what happens next is in your ...

CHICAGO — Nurses at Northwestern Memorial Hospital made a patient’s dream come true before undergoing a risky surgery. Annesley Clark learned they had a life-threatening infection and a mass growing ...

Bright lights, gleaming surgical tools, and a patient ready on the operating table. All seems to be in order, but then an alarm sounds and all eyes immediately look to you ­– what happens next is in ...