trauma

As the nation's hospitals fill and emergency rooms overflow with critically ill COVID-19 patients, the non-COVID-19 patients have become collateral...

Tens of thousands of times a year, hospitals charge enormously expensive trauma alert fees for injuries so minor the patient...

Training on how to interact with disabled people varies, but the basics include identifying such individuals early in an encounter...

HCA Healthcare's activation fees run as high as $50,000 per patient and are sometimes 10 times greater than those at...

The trauma that medical professionals witness isn't "normal" for an average person's experience?let alone the trauma associated with COVID-19, unprecedented...

Dozens of people were seriously injured during the protests last summer, leading to lawsuits, promises of reform and calls to...

After more than a decade of fairly steady decreases, California's homicide rate surged in 2020.

The shot fired into Alan Pean's chest would extinguish his family's belief that diligent high achievers could outwit the racism...

Colorado is among the most recent of 19 states to have enacted red flag laws. Connecticut was first, in 1999.

Florida is one of two states that shield doctors and hospitals from most legal actions arising from births that go...

States are grappling with how to reduce traffic deaths, a problem that has worsened over the past 10 years but...

AMA president applauds the initiatives announced this week but calls them 'just a first step.'