Mercy Hospital

Veteran actor Dilip Kumar was hospitalised last week after he complained of breathlessness

The hospital staff was insistent, but Brenda Bennett-Johnson could not be sure. It was May 13 and Bennett-Johnson and her sister Rosie Brooks were visiting the intensive care unit at Chicago's Mercy Hospital & Medical Center, watching a man struggle for his life. Authorities said they were looking at their brother.

A man showed up to Mercy Hospital Monday afternoon and opened fire on a woman believed to be his former fiancee before turning the gun on others, killing four people, including a police officer and the gunman himself.

The government, on Friday unveiled four rate bands under a new sales tax for services such as telecoms, insurance and restaurants, a move experts feel could complicate compliance and leave businesses at the mercy of an intrusive tax bureaucracy. The Goods and Services Tax or GST, set to be launched from July 1, will have rates of 5, 12, 18 and 28 p...

A 9-month-old baby girl, whose parents had sought mercy killing for her, is about to get a new lease of life at a hospital in Chennai.

In his years as the only qualified surgeon living in Sudan's conflict-hit Nuba Mountains, American Tom Catena has treated more patients than he can remember but some cases are etched in his memory.

Concern mounted on Sunday over accusations that Sudan's air force dropped bombs near a church-run hospital in war-torn South Kordofan.

Coming to the aid of a 34-year-old comatose woman days after her husband pleaded for euthanasia for her, Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa today announced setting up of a special medical team to take care of the patient and Rs five lakh financial assistance to the family.

At a government hospital in Uttar Pradesh, people are at the mercy of untrained sweepers and rickshaw pullers - a shocking state of affairs exposed after a baby died on Tuesday, moments after being given an injection by a rickshaw puller.

The parents of an eight-year-old boy have sued a US hospital, alleging doctors pronounced their son dead though he was still alive, the Daily Mail reported on Sunday.

A man suspected of calmly walking into a hospital's intensive care unit and shooting his wife in the head in what may have been a mercy killing appeared perplexed at the attempted murder charge against him when he stood before a judge Tuesday, asking whether his wife was indeed dead.

An Ohio man suspected of shooting his wife in the head in her hospital bed was scheduled for his first court appearance as police awaited autopsy results that could affect the charge against him in the possible mercy killing.

Were Kashmir's sick infants left at the mercy of the drug mafia and corrupt doctors? The final report of the inquiry commission, probing the alarming neonatal death rate in the GB Pant Children's hospital, which is the Valley's only children's hospital, has revealed that the number of neonatal deaths could have been much higher than what has been r...

Aruna Shanbaug has not walked or spoken a word in 37 years. Since she was raped by a sweeper at her hospital in 1973, she has not left the hospital where she was once a bright capable nurse. Nurses change her diapers, feed her and calm her when she gets restless - usually if there are more than a few people in her room at Mumbai's King Edward Memor...

Veteran actor Dilip Kumar was hospitalised last week after he complained of breathlessness

The hospital staff was insistent, but Brenda Bennett-Johnson could not be sure. It was May 13 and Bennett-Johnson and her sister Rosie Brooks were visiting the intensive care unit at Chicago's Mercy Hospital & Medical Center, watching a man struggle for his life. Authorities said they were looking at their brother.

A man showed up to Mercy Hospital Monday afternoon and opened fire on a woman believed to be his former fiancee before turning the gun on others, killing four people, including a police officer and the gunman himself.

The government, on Friday unveiled four rate bands under a new sales tax for services such as telecoms, insurance and restaurants, a move experts feel could complicate compliance and leave businesses at the mercy of an intrusive tax bureaucracy. The Goods and Services Tax or GST, set to be launched from July 1, will have rates of 5, 12, 18 and 28 p...

A 9-month-old baby girl, whose parents had sought mercy killing for her, is about to get a new lease of life at a hospital in Chennai.

In his years as the only qualified surgeon living in Sudan's conflict-hit Nuba Mountains, American Tom Catena has treated more patients than he can remember but some cases are etched in his memory.

Concern mounted on Sunday over accusations that Sudan's air force dropped bombs near a church-run hospital in war-torn South Kordofan.

Coming to the aid of a 34-year-old comatose woman days after her husband pleaded for euthanasia for her, Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa today announced setting up of a special medical team to take care of the patient and Rs five lakh financial assistance to the family.

At a government hospital in Uttar Pradesh, people are at the mercy of untrained sweepers and rickshaw pullers - a shocking state of affairs exposed after a baby died on Tuesday, moments after being given an injection by a rickshaw puller.

The parents of an eight-year-old boy have sued a US hospital, alleging doctors pronounced their son dead though he was still alive, the Daily Mail reported on Sunday.

A man suspected of calmly walking into a hospital's intensive care unit and shooting his wife in the head in what may have been a mercy killing appeared perplexed at the attempted murder charge against him when he stood before a judge Tuesday, asking whether his wife was indeed dead.

An Ohio man suspected of shooting his wife in the head in her hospital bed was scheduled for his first court appearance as police awaited autopsy results that could affect the charge against him in the possible mercy killing.

Were Kashmir's sick infants left at the mercy of the drug mafia and corrupt doctors? The final report of the inquiry commission, probing the alarming neonatal death rate in the GB Pant Children's hospital, which is the Valley's only children's hospital, has revealed that the number of neonatal deaths could have been much higher than what has been r...

Aruna Shanbaug has not walked or spoken a word in 37 years. Since she was raped by a sweeper at her hospital in 1973, she has not left the hospital where she was once a bright capable nurse. Nurses change her diapers, feed her and calm her when she gets restless - usually if there are more than a few people in her room at Mumbai's King Edward Memor...