There was a 65% increase in the number of children and young people being admitted to general acute medical wards in hospitals in England because of a mental health concern between 2012 and 2022, ...

Research looked at all admissions for five to 18-year-olds to general acute medical wards in England from 2012 to 2022.

The thousands of firefighters and other first responders on the front lines of the fires that are raging in the Los Angeles ...

Have you ever reread a text message, wondering if it was taken the wrong way? Or sent an email only to receive no reply, ...

Across the United States, no hospital is the same. Equipment, staffing, technical capabilities, and patient populations can all differ.

As an example: if there are 50 patient-on-patient ... in less restrictive settings by adding an intermediate, sub-acute level of care, which allows individuals in behavioral health crisis to ...

A surge in flu cases across Scotland has placed health services in the country under "acute pressure", Public Health Scotland (PHS) has warned. Data from PHS showed 1,163 people were hospitalised ...

And yet, the US health care system is ill-equipped to manage them financially, and thus clinically. The result is confusion, uneven use, and the potential for huge disparities in health." ...

An acute stroke, like most forms of stroke, starts suddenly and worsens rapidly. Some strokes may be preceded by a transient ischemic attack (TIA), a temporary stroke that resolves before causing any ...

Photo by Jeff McIntosh, the Canadian Press. Thousands of patients and health-care workers were infected during COVID-19 outbreaks in acute care facilities in Alberta this year, raising questions a ...