CHICAGO (STMW) --A doctor accused of sexually assaulting a bedridden 61-year-old Des Plaines woman was ordered held on $250,000 bond, after prosecutors detailed in court abuse the woman allegedly ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers used moistened wipes instead of soap and water to clean patients bedridden with catheters. Patients ...

One of the joys of being a Maker and Hacker is solving problems and filling needs. When you can do both, well, that’s something special. [rodrigo.mejiasz]’s project surely fits into that special ...

Police arrested an employee at a group home in Oxford after a patient who called 911 had allegedly been neglected for hours. Elisia Rotella, 45, is accused of second-degree reckless endangerment for ...

The likely cause of a common pneumonia is easily missed by sick patients and clinicians: unbrushed teeth. That’s according to a report by Kaiser Health News, which found that a lack of awareness about ...

A team of researchers from the U.S., China and Korea has developed a small, skin-like sensor that can be attached to a human patient to collect temperature and pressure information and wirelessly send ...

Doug Lindsay had just started his senior year studying biochemistry at Kansas City's Rockhurst College in 1999 when he was struck by the same mysterious disease that had left his mother bedridden — ...

PITTSFIELD — A former nursing home employee was caught in the midst of attempting to sexually assault a bedridden patient in his care in August 2012, a prosecutor told jurors on Tuesday. But the man's ...

People who were bedridden for a week or more with COVID-19 remain at increased risk for anxiety and depression more than a year later, according to a new study. But those who had milder infections are ...