In one of the rarest reported cases of foreign body ingestion, a 77-year-old man accidentally swallowed a key attached to a ...

Called cryptosporidium, commonly known as 'crypto', it can infect the digestive system of animals and people and cause ...

"Bilateral pneumonia with heart failure can only increase the fragility of an 88-year-old patient hospitalized for more than ...

CRANSTON, R.I. (WPRI) — Pauline Volpi has been a fixture at the Stop & Shop off Atwood Avenue in Cranston for the past 40 years. The beloved cashier is known for sporting thick-rimmed glasses on ...

A TV personality broke down as she was worn out by the "exhaustion, sleeplessness and dehumanisation" of life in a care home.

Over roughly 9 years of follow-up, people with the swallowing disorder achalasia had a 42% higher risk of mortality compared with the general population, a nationwide cohort study from Sweden ...

Residents are urged to take precautions, especially for children and the elderly, to avoid heat-related illnesses as the heatwave is expected to last for 48 hours. As April unfolds, Delhi is ...

On Wednesday, the State Council's Work Safety Commission announced it would supervise and oversee the investigation into a fatal fire at Guo'en Elderly Care Facility in Longhua county, Chengde ...

As of 3am today, it added, twenty people were confirmed dead. “Other elderly people in the nursing home have been transferred to nearby hospitals for further observation and treatment,” the state news ...

A midwife caught on camera repeatedly stealing medication while on duty at Antrim Area Hospital has been barred from the nursing profession. Donna McGreevey (55) hit the headlines earlier this ...

“We have drugs that improve the loss of control of limb movements in Parkinson’s, but the problem is they have no impact on swallowing dysfunction,” says François Gould, an assistant professor in ...