President Obama said the health care mandate wasn't a tax, but Thursday the Supreme Court upheld the law because it was.
When the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act in a 5-4 ruling Thursday, the American Medical Association was quick to release a statement in support of the "historic" decision that will give more people access to health coverage.
CNN's Amber Lyon goes inside a Tennessee hospital to see the smallest victims of prescription pain abuse.
Two Uruguayan nurses are charged with murdering at least 16 patients. CNN's Rafael Romo reports.
Two male nurses face murder charges in Uruguay after reportedly admitting to killing at least 16 patients in two hospitals in the country's capital.
After losing her nursing job to a disease, a young woman turns a hobby into a business.
Kelsey Trusty plans almost everything, but getting cancer was one thing she didn't anticipate.
Robert F. Kennedy's son, Douglas, faces misdemeanor charges over an incident at a New York hospital last month in which he knocked down a nurse while holding his newborn son, attorneys for both sides say.
About 6,000 California nurses staged a one-day strike at several hospitals Thursday, protesting what they called an "erosion of quality of care and cuts to patient protections," National Nurses United said.
Liberal Democratic icon George McGovern was taken to a South Dakota hospital after falling Friday night at a nearby university, a library staff member told CNN.
The nanny who was brutally treated by Gadhafi family members continues her recovery. CNN's Dan Rivers reports.
The searcher who found the body of missing nursing student Michelle Le over the weekend in northern California knows personal loss herself.
As a school nurse in Rochester, Michigan, Ronda Harrison has more than 15,000 students in 23 buildings under her care. She works out of the district's administrative offices and spends her days giving PowerPoint presentations to educators and communicating with parents over the phone.
Middle-aged women who drink alcohol in moderation have a better chance than nondrinkers of staying healthy as they age, especially if they spread out their consumption over most days of the week, a new study from Harvard researchers suggests.
According to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, prescription drug overdose deaths in Florida are up a staggering 265% since 2003. But it's not just the deaths that have Florida officials worried; it's the births.
Florida sees an alarming spike in the number of babies born addicted to pills. CNN's Amber Lyon investigates.
When he turns from his computer to introduce himself, after pausing the replay of the previous night's Phillies game, my immediate thought is: This sandy-haired, little-kid-smiling guy looks way too young to have just turned 40.
It's Wednesday afternoon, and Bernard Robinson has just arrived at Central Park's softball fields to prepare for a game.
Joseph Maraachli, the infant whose family refused to accept a recommendation by a Canadian hospital to remove the boy's breathing tube and allow him to die, is now breathing on his own without the aid of a mechanical ventilator.
From February: A court orders a hospital to remove the breathing tube of a terminally ill infant.
The tragedy unfolded with startling speed.
When 2-year-old Malyia Jeffers developed a fever one Sunday afternoon in November, her parents gave her a children's Motrin and kept a cautious eye on her throughout the night.
CNN Top 10 Hero Guadalupe Arizpe De La Vega founded a hospital in Juarez, Mexico, that cares for about 900 people daily -- regardless of their ability to pay.
A gunman critically injured a doctor at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, and later killed himself and his mother, police say -- the latest violent incident in a health care setting.
The Nevada State Board of Nursing has suspended the licenses of two nurses named by police in a criminal investigation of "disrupted" catheter lines at a hospital neonatal intensive care unit, the board's executive director said Wednesday.
Despite the growing shortage of family doctors in the United States, medical centers last year offered higher salaries and incentives to specialist nurses than to primary care doctors, according to an annual survey of physicians' salaries.
When you think of low-paying jobs, doctor doesn't usually come to mind.
Two renowned surgeons are providing desperately needed aid to fellow Haitians, as CNN's Sanjay Gupta reports.
America could be facing a nursing shortage that will worsen exponentially as the population grows older.
A New York judge denied a request Wednesday for a temporary restraining order barring the state from mandating flu vaccines for health care workers but left open that possibility pending another hearing on the matter next week.
Cooling a person's body after cardiac arrest helps save lives. Dr. Gupta reports that the procedure is catching on.
Seated on a jetliner, Dr. Mary Gallagher and her husband, Don Dietrich, were about to take off for an anniversary vacation in Puerto Rico. But a glance at her husband of five years set off an alarm -- he was gasping for breath. Gallagher, an anesthesiologist, knew the signs: Dietrich was in cardiac arrest.
A Fort Lauderdale nurse has resigned and more than 1,800 patients have been notified that they may have been exposed to diseases such as HIV and hepatitis, after the nurse allegedly admitted to the hospital that she used disposable IV equipment on multiple patients, a violation of safety standards.
Caring for a car has you a befuddled. The honeymoon's over, and bureaucratic tasks are beating out bliss. You're meeting with a prospective babysitter or housekeeper, a stranger you'll entrust with much of your life.
Fashion designer and author Rory Tahari shares her secrets for imposing order on chaos in her new book called "Lists for Life."
Imagine you're about to travel to a foreign land. You've heard it can be a mighty dangerous place, but you have to go there -- you have no choice. You don't know exactly where the threats lurk, and you don't speak the language. Wouldn't it be nice to have a guide?
Nurses offer tips on how to keep yourself or a family member safe during a stay at a hospital. Elizabeth Cohen reports.
How Malawi is tackling its crippling shortage of nurses.
Like most African countries, Malawi has suffered from a severe shortage of nurses and key health workers.
Alicia Azzopardi was laid off just before Christmas. It couldn't have happened at a better time.
College tuition increases about 5% to 8% a year. And most students are now just beginning to get their financial aid packages.
Campbell Brown interviews a Nurse Practitioner who claims Michael Jackson requested drugs for insomnia.
Michael Jackson suffered from severe bouts of insomnia and pleaded for a powerful sedative despite knowing its harmful effects, a nutritionist who worked with the singer said Tuesday.
Parker and Broderick quietly check out with their newborn twin daughters
People who were aboard the Washington subway trains that wrecked Monday described scenes of severely injured victims and of passengers trying to help one another.
A rush-hour collision Monday between two Metro trains north of downtown Washington, D.C., killed at least six people and injured scores, Mayor Adrian Fenty said.
Jurors on Thursday told a judge they could not reach a decision on whether a former U.S. soldier should be sentenced to death for war crimes -- including rape and murder -- he committed in Iraq.
On Monday family members of Steven Green were at court in Paducah, KY.
Sifting through the rubble, sorting through piles of junk, bottom feeding - there are a lot of colorful ways to describe how value investors ferret out high-quality stocks that get socked when the market plummets or when an industry falls out of favor.
The former Prison Break star, who pleaded guilty, is expected to be paroled by next month
Americans, frustrated by endless waits at the doctor's office, are sidestepping their family physician and taking their rashes, strep throat and pink eye to stores such as Wal-Mart and Walgreens instead.
Jonah Angel Suleman, now 4 lbs., 10 oz., has joined his 13 siblings and mom Nadya
Nursing school seemed like a good idea to Tracy Kidd, but not just because she was interested in medicine.
With thousands of jobs lost in the manufacturing sector and some of the highest unemployment rates in the country, the Midwest has taken an especially hard hit during this economic recession.
The video is deeply disturbing.
Glenn Beck talks about the severe pain he endured, and the lack of compassion he received after surgery.
Nicole Nagy had gone back to school, hoping that a new career would lead to a better job. When she was turned down for financial aid, Nagy was told that she could, as a song goes, "sing for the money." She was directed to a contest called Careereoki.
Singing for jobs
updated: Tue Feb 17 2009 11:58:00
CNN's John Zarrella reports some unemployed people in Orlando are entertaining new career choices.
Nicole Nagy had gone back to school hoping that a new career would lead to a better job. When she was turned down for financial aid, Nagy was told she could, as a song goes, "sing for the money." She was directed to a contest called Careereoki.
New HHS regulation lets healthcare workers refuse care if they have a moral objection. CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports.
As an intern 20 years ago, Dr. Sandy Christiansen said, she was repeatedly denied the opportunity to perform some medical procedures that other interns performed.
As President-elect Barack Obama plans for his administration, the economy tops his list of priorities. The Dow has been down, unemployment rates are soaring, and companies announce more layoffs each week.
Nancy Grace reports on Maura Murray, a young nursing student who vanished after a minor car accident.
Every weekend for more than four years, Fred Murray has walked the road where his daughter, Maura, vanished. Family, friends and volunteers help him look in the woods and mountains near Haverhill, New Hampshire, for clues to what happened to her.
The first national patient-satisfaction survey suggest U.S. hospitals have a ways to go.
When Sarah Palin was mayor, did she know the town was charging women for rape kits? CNN's Jessica Yellin reports.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's hometown required women to pay for their own rape examinations while she was mayor, a practice her police chief fought to keep as late as 2000.
Surgical errorsupdated: Thu Jul 17 2008 14:29:00
CNN's Elizabeth Cohen explores how to avoid surgical mishaps.
I thought my husband was crazy.
Starting in 2009, rape victims nationwide can have an emergency-room exam, and evidence will be kept on file in case they decide to press charges
Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports on a baby enrolled in a clinical trial for a severe congenital heart defect.
When Heidi Sadowsky quit the finance sector, she abandoned a job market on the verge of collapse for one that may be air-tight: nursing.
It wasn't Tibet's subzero temperatures that nurse practitioner Arlene Samen found so chilling on a 1997 medical trip, but the haunting stories she was told about mothers and newborns on the brink of death after childbirth.
Arlene Samen distributes kits that help keep newborns and mothers alive during childbirth in Tibet and Mexico.
You may think of private nurses as a luxury for the ultra-rich, like a butler or personal chauffeur. But hiring in-house medical care has become an increasingly viable option for regular folks too.
Colleen Hiltbrunner spent two years researching her dream trip to South Africa. But she wasn't looking for the perfect safari lodge. She was hunting for the right cosmetic surgeon.
At 63, Minnie is one of the youngest people I've ever met. She sparkles, and not just because she's dressed in a fabulous buttercup-yellow tank top bedecked with rhinestones and sequins. Everything about Minnie, from her laughter to the successful businesses she's created, seems to shine.
At 63, Minnie is one of the youngest people I've ever met. She sparkles, and not just because she's dressed in a fabulous buttercup-yellow tank top bedecked with rhinestones and sequins. Everything about Minnie, from her laughter to the successful businesses she's created, seems to shine.
Nearly 5,000 nurses in 15 Northern California hospitals began a two-day walkout Wednesday to protest what they said were inadequate contract offerings
Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor were pardoned by President Georgi Parvanov upon their arrival in Sofia on Tuesday after spending eight-and-a-half years in prison in Libya.
With the case of imprisoned Bulgarian nurses about to be settled, the West's old enemy is refurbishing his image
Libya's Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the death sentences of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor convicted of infecting more than 400 children with HIV
Business 2.0: Nurses on demandupdated: Mon May 21 2007 20:18:00
Soon after Jason Landers started selling temporary nursing services to understaffed hospitals, he began hearing the complaints: The paperwork involved in scheduling nursing temps was driving his cu...
Have you ever used what you learned in high school to get a job? Ask the graduates of Central Educational Center in Coweta County, Georgia, and you'll likely get a resounding "yes."
Business 2.0: Retail therapyupdated: Tue Oct 10 2006 18:04:00
Concerned that she might be having an allergic reaction to bedbug bites, Michaela Ryfa wanted immediate medical attention. But instead of calling one of Manhattan's thousands of doctors, she ducked into a Duane Reade drugstore on her lunch break.
The Libyan Supreme court has overturned the death sentences of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor convicted of infecting hundreds of children with the HIV virus, according to Libya's official news agency.
Drinking two to three glasses of wine a day may not be such good medicine for the heart after all, a team of experts say in a leading medical journal.
Take on the mighty Terminator, and what happens? You bring him down and you win the political Play of the Week.
It's the Hollywood Smackdown: Senator Bulworth takes on the Terminator.
CNN.com asked readers to share their ideas and solutions to the problems caused by Hurricane Katrina. Here is a sampling from the responses, some of which have been edited:
A faint hum permeates the neonatal intensive care unit at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. It is the symphony of monitors, ventilators, and softly spoken consultations among the doctors, nurses and technicians who care for the tiniest of babies who begin their lives here.
Nursing a grudgeupdated: Mon Feb 28 2005 12:14:00
Perhaps someone should have warned Arnold Schwarzenegger that nurses are no pushovers.
FSB: Gone in 60 Secondsupdated: Tue Feb 01 2005 00:01:00
Is it possible that one remedy for the ailing health-care system can be found in a Target store in Minneapolis? To see for yourself, head down the main aisle, past greeting cards and gift wrap, tow...
Your hospital bill arrives in a tangle of errors. Grandpa needs a good nursing home. And all you want is some aspirin and someone to help you figure out the right thing to do.
Singling out the actions of two nurses as "outrageous," a Florida grand jury indicted two women on manslaughter and third-degree murder charges, finding the two women ignored calls from a dying teen for medical aid at a residential detention facility.
For most of us, medical problems will be blessedly routine, and the local hospital is just fine. But when your condition is rare or complicated, you can save your life by finding the hospital that ...
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