National Healthcare

Volunteers of the Meritus Medical Center Auxiliary recently gathered to celebrate National Healthcare Volunteer Week and the 2013 theme, “Honoring the Spirit of Service.” The volunteers were treated to what has become a traditional...

Do you have an advance medical directive? Saturday was the 6th annual Virginia Healthcare Decisions Day is designed to raise public awareness of the need to plan ahead for healthcare decisions related to end of life care and medical decision-making...

When Planned Parenthood representatives began handing out free condoms during an initial information session with recent Vietnamese immigrants in Orange County last year, a hush fell over the room. Those who took one quietly whispered, in Vietnamese,...

Illinois hospitals are succeeding in curbing bloodstream infections from catheters, but their efforts lag several other states, according to a new report published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The study documents a 10...

With the nation's high rates of obesity and the low odds of weight loss, perhaps weary doctors are just giving up. National statistics show that only about half of obese Americans were advised by their doctors to cut down on fatty foods. The rate, from a...