The federal government is threatening to halt Medicare payments to University Medical Center a sanction that could devastate the financially stricken hospital because of its failure to care for an uninsured pregnant woman in its emergency room. About half of the hospitals operating revenue through the first three quarters of 2009 came ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who suffer a traumatic injury during the weekend or at night will fare just as well as people injured during the day or on a weekday, as long as they make it to a Level 1 trauma center for treatment, new findings show. While studies have shown that people who have a heart attack or ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - The U.S. military will resume evacuation flights to the United States for critically injured Haitian earthquake victims within the next 12 hours, the White House said on Sunday. "Having received assurances that additional capacity exists both here and among our international partners, we determined that we can resume these critical flights," White House spokesman Tommy Vietor said ...