Some Oklahoma hospitals will be classified according to whether they meet stroke-care standards under rules the state Health Department board recently approved. Following the lead of The Joint Commission, a nonprofit organization that accredits hospitals

Gov. Bobby Jindal vetoed his first three bills of the regular legislative session Friday, including one that sought to improve patient access to primary medical care and organ transplant centers.

Methodist Dallas Medical Center is one of the first hospitals in Dallas and the only one in southwest Dallas County to offer a new treatment that can help prevent esophageal cancer.

Rick Huston, director of operations at Regions Hospital, stood by a decontamination chamber that would be used to treat mass casualties in a chemical spill. The level of emergency readiness for area medical personnel is “like night and day” compared w

State law spurs race for 'stroke center' status As stroke care advances, hospitals are lining up to create centers to treat these "brain attacks" with as much urgency as they treat trauma patients.