Courts may deny motions for judgment notwithstanding the verdict when a jury reaches a reasonable decision based on evidence of a patient's failure to follow a prescribed treatment plan.

A Black ICU nurse who claimed a Colorado hospital racially discriminated against her and then fired her for complaining, while wrongfully blaming her for an elderly patient’s death, was awarded $20 ...

When family caregivers have access to respite services, it increases a palliative care patient’s chance of dying in the home by almost threefold. That is according to a July study published in BMC ...

Death is a fact of everyone’s life—not so much our own death, which is projected into some indefinite, unthinkable, future, but rather the death of others-- of those people we care about. Usually as ...

One nurse in the United States recently drew attention online after describing a phenomenon she says caregivers often observe ...

Providers say it marks the fourth death among patients who were receiving mobile, specialized treatment in less than four months since an Idaho Medicaid contractor cut the service, called Assertive ...

Ruth Parry, PhD, still remembers a conversation she mishandled as a junior National Health Service stroke rehabilitation physiotherapist many years ago. Ruth Parry, PhD “I was treating a man whose ...

Following the death of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) worker Anjum Iqbal Mughal, who reportedly lost his life due to the unavailability of a ventilator at Holy Family Hospital and lack of timely ...