When hospitalized for COVID-19, pregnant women—and their eventual newborn children—have a higher risk of complications, ...

When Covid-19 patients younger than 5 also test positive for another respiratory virus, they tend to become sicker and develop more severe disease, a new study suggests. Among hospitalized children ...

Intensive care units nationwide were already overwhelmed with chronically ill patients — many sick with Covid-19 and related illnesses — when omicron hit. Though the highly contagious variant has ...

The modern ICU, or Intensive Care Unit, was born out of a time of crisis. It was 1952, and polio was raging in many places — especially the city of Copenhagen. Patients poured into the hospitals, many ...

SANDPOINT, Idaho– The intensive care unit is a place nobody wants to end up. It’s a place where they fight for their lives as they battle COVID-19. That’s what’s happening inside the sterile, quiet ...

Alan Hawes, a former photojournalist who is now a registered nurse at the Medical University of South Carolina, documented daily life inside a South Carolina hosptial’s intensive care unit during the ...

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BUCHAREST, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Seven people died on Friday when a fire broke out in a Romanian intensive care unit treating COVID-19 patients, officials said, the country's third deadly hospital fire in ...