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Boston's Beth Israel Deconess Medical Center is one of three hospitals in the city testing a new program to help lower-level workers earn a degree free of charge. Seth Doane reports on the hospital's program that trains up from within.

It is the ultimate paradox of American health care: going to the hospital can kill you. Every year nearly two million hospital-acquired infections claim roughly 100,000 lives and add $45 billion in costs; that is as many lives and dollars as taken by AIDS, breast cancer and auto accidents combined.

You might be surprised by some of the things that should send you to the hospital

If possible, think back to a time you or a loved one had to be in a hospital for a significant amount of time. What do you remember from the experience? Many people report an eerie feeling about their stays in hospitals.

The loss of smell affects millions of Americans and many do not seek treatment. Lenox Hill Hospital's Dr

The fact that he'd stopped crying scared me. Damn rear-facing car seat.

Just after sunrise in early January, a delivery van trundled along a suburban street in Queensland, Australia.

One of the top worries for parents of kids with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the long-term consequences of this condition. "Families want to know, 'So what does this mean?'" says Alice Charach , head of the neuropsychiatry team at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. [More]

This post was written by Ellen McGirt and Chuck Salter . 01 / Epocrates > > For creating software that gives doctors and nurses instant information on drug-to-drug interactions, treatment recommendations, and more on their mobile devices or laptops. Coming up: mobile access to electronic health records.

Wanna get out of the hospital alive? Well, the nursing staff has a lot to do with it. Now a study finds that a patient’s risk of dying goes up along with the number of work shifts that a hospital is understaffed in nurses

Much of what happens to you in the hospital in the name of diagnosing and healing is invasive. Depending on what ails you, a doctor may need to ream out an artery to get more blood to your heart, or flood your body with a poison to kill cancerous cells, or saw through the bones of your leg to replace a crumbling hip or a worn-out knee

Screen legend has now been in the hospital for more than three weeks