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Rural hospital closings, Medicaid expansions and trouble in U.S. territories

A group of experts has issued a call to arms, spotlighting missed opportunities for addiction treatment in hospital settings.

The AIDS Memorial on Instagram revisits some of the amazing tributes submitted to the account.

Known as polypharmacy, taking numerous medications has been linked to such risks in the general population as well.

Later, his son accidentally pricked himself after checking his father’s blood sugar.

The hospital’s “careless handling” of personal health information violated HIPAA rules.

He sought medical assistance, he tells ABC news, because he had been mugged and was bleeding.

Baystate Noble Hospital in Springfield insists that the risk of infection is “low, [but] it is not zero.”

It will continue to treat people living with HIV.

Post-exposure prophylaxis can stop HIV, but only if you and your health care providers know about it.

They may have been exposed since as far back as 2005.

The hospital alerted patients that insulin pens might have been reused.

An orthopedic surgeon in Ireland who contracted HIV from a patient in 1997 has settled a lawsuit against his former hospital, RTE News reports...

Hospitalized LGBT people now have the right to designate their own visitors, according to a Lambda Legal statement.

Mildmay Mission is being demolished to make way for a new hospital.

HIV-positive women in Namibia are suing the health ministry for allegedly being sterilized by their doctors without informed consent, BBC News...