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A B.C. senior said she was discharged from hospital in Kamloops at night with no way to get back to her home in Clearwater 120 kilometres away.

Healthcare giant UnitedHealth Group confirmed that its subsidiary Optum was forced to shut down IT systems and various services after a cyberattack by “nation-state” hackers on the Change Healthcare platform. United Health Group (UHG) is a health insurance company with a presence across all 50 US states. The organiz...

Health Minister Adrian Dix says hospitals in the province see 200,000 emergency room visits per month and that he doesn’t believe patients are being dumped outside.

On Thursday afternoon, Arden posted a video on social media from an unnamed hospital, with an apparent head wound after a real incident with a virtual reality headset.

"After you've worked 16, 18, 20, 24 hours, I really don't want you to be pushing very serious drugs into my system," she said.

Two not-for-profit hospitals in New York are seeking a court order to retrieve data stolen in an August ransomware attack and now stored on the servers of a Boston cloud storage company. Carthage Area Hospital and Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center (the attack's victims) have founded the North Star Health Alliance, a co...

When a baby is about to arrive, every minute counts. Yet when Jen Villa of Salinas, California, was in labor, she and her partner drove 45 minutes in the middle of the night, bypassing nearby hospitals to reach one they could afford. For years, the price of hospital care has been hidden from patients, companies and ...

SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.A new study shows an increase in the rate of inpatient complications, including infections and falls, though patients were no more likely to die.The researche...