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Visiting a loved one in the hospital? Better check on new flu limits first. Hospitals around the country are turning away visiting children and tightening restrictions on adults, too, in hopes of limiting spread of swine flu.

U.S. hospitals rarely publish measurements of their quality. But Pennsylvania has found that publishing results can prompt improvement, and that good care is often less expensive than bad care.

Fast-food places have them. Banks and pharmacies do, too. Now hospitals are opening drive-thrus and drive-up tent clinics to screen and treat a swelling tide of swine flu patients.

Spectators flocked to an Indonesian hospital Friday for a glimpse of the country's largest ever recorded baby - a 19.2-pound (8.7 kilogram) boy born by cesarean section to a diabetic mother.

Ambulances and fire trucks raced to the home of the 91-year-old West Virginia Democrat, the longest-serving senator in U.S. history. He was taken to a hospital but has not been admitted.

No vacationer plans on getting sick, but many do fall ill, and seriously. All too often they land at hospitals that are anything ...

Vice President Biden plans to announce Thursday nearly $1.2 billion in grants to help hospitals transition to electronic medical ...

Eunice Kennedy Shriver, a sister of President John F. Kennedy and a longtime champion for the disabled, was in critical condition Friday at a Massachusetts hospital.

China's Health Ministry has ordered a hospital to stop using electric shock therapy to cure youths of Internet addiction, saying there was no scientific evidence it worked.

Three major hospital associations have offered to contribute about $155 billion over 10 years to help pay for a U.S. healthcare overhaul, The Washington Post reported on Monday, citing industry sources.