Just under two weeks have passed since a record-setting blizzard dumped up to a foot and a half of snow across Northwest Missouri and Northeast Kansas. Love it or hate it, most surfaces still have ...

During the last few months or weeks of life, someone dying from their cancer might have symptoms, strong emotions or other challenges to cope with. There is help and support for people who are dying ...

Patients are dying in corridors and going undiscovered for hours while the sick are left to soil themselves, nurses have said, revealing the scale of the corridor crisis inside the UK's hospitals.

Patients are dying undiscovered in hospital corridors and being treated in cupboards and bathrooms across NHS hospitals, according to a damning new report from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN). The ...

"In the United States, males and females have a 1 in 1000 risk of dying from alcohol use if they consume more than 7 drinks per week. This risk increases to 1 in 100 if they consume more than 9 ...

What happens in the last days of life is different for everyone. But it can help carers and relatives to know a little about what to expect. Knowing that you or a loved one is close to dying can be ...

When Girard died that October, she weighed just 50.6 pounds, dying of malnutrition. Girard had lived with Dahl for about eight years as a part of a residential home-sharing agreement, overseen by ...