An Intensive Treatment Unit doctor said Brian's prognosis was poor and he died surrounded by his family at 9.45pm on June 29.

It was the type of upsetting yet commonplace problem most parents face from time to time. Early last month, the Taylor family were on their way home from a meal out when Trey, 11, began feeling sick.

"We get to the hospital and they do a chest x-ray, and they said there is a lot of fluid in there and we are going to send you to UVA because there are specialists there, and they might have to ...

Quarter Horse Zeke was originally suspected to be suffering from pigeon fever, but ultimately required a unique surgery to ...

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Malcolm Ledgar, 64, based in Nottingham , frequently worked around asbestos as an apprentice joiner in 1975, but at that time ...

A Bolton dad-of-two tragically died at the hospital following heart surgery last February. The inquest into the death of 61-year-old Terrance Grainger, known as Terry, is taking place at Stockport ...

Pneumonia is a serious lung infection that fills the air sacks in one or both lungs with fluid or pus ... "We conduct a basic chest X-ray. If a white patch is visible on the X-ray, it confirms ...

You change into a hospital gown and lie down on the x-ray couch. You normally lay on your back ... Rarely the needle can go into the space around the lung (plural cavity). This can cause fluid to ...

A pleural effusion can be very small (detectable only by a chest X-ray or CT scan) or be large and contain several pints of fluid. A pleural effusion requires drainage of the intrapleural space, ...

A chest X-ray or computerized tomography (CT) scan can identify areas of fluid or lung infection (e.g., pneumonia or a lung abscess). Infections can cause severe chest congestion that makes it ...