Being in an emergency-room waiting area for hours can be frustrating for patients as they deal with pain, discomfort and worsening conditions. Here's how triage works to determine a patient's urgency.

Doctors warn of risks of cannabis use to young people as patients suffering from psychosis and ‘scromiting’ surge in North Carolina’s emergency rooms ...

Icy sidewalks, steps, driveways, and other potential frozen hazards have landed patients in the emergency department.

An ER doctor who treated Stephens College students says more than 20 were evaluated and released after oxygen treatment.

Rangueil Hospital in Toulouse was thrown into chaos with a bomb squad called after a 24-year-old man arrived complaining of ...

"I’ve removed all kinds of items that weren’t designed to go inside the body — cucumbers, carrots, sprays..." one doctor said.

An emergency department in southern France was forced to call in a bomb disposal unit after a man arrived at hospital with a World War I artillery shell lodged in his rectum.

The change in weather activates viruses. Many children arrive with a fever or the flu because of the season. This week we’ve ...

Striking New York City nurses say they are being maligned as greedy, while hospital officials say they are not taking into account sharp reductions in federal funding.

Time is running out on Santa Paula Hospital set to close at its current site in 2030, sparking anxiety about care needs of the Santa Clara Valley.

Broomfield Hospital has said its new system to triage patients at its emergency department is “a work in progress” ...

"We are starting to see people coming into the psychiatric hospitals that are unable to cope with the constant fear of being hunted down in the streets." ...