Teens who are hooking up with the rising social networking sites face potential dangers, according to a psychiatrist.

Psychiatrist Dr. Himanshu Tyagi said that Facebook and MySpace could be dangerous. In the annual meeting of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, he said that people who have active online activities are possibly giving less attention to their real lives

President George W. Bush on Thursday attended a ceremonial groundbreaking for the Bethesda National Naval Medical Center. The $970 million expansion will include new patient facilities that will replace Walter Reed National Medical Center, but retain its name.

Bush said he hoped the new facilities "will be the site of many miracles of healing

Surveillance video footage inside a New York hospital has shown a patient lying ignored in the psychiatric ward floor before she collapsed and finally succumbs to her death as workers failed to help.

The 49-year-old Jamaican woman, Esmin Green, had been waiting in the emergency room for nearly 24 hours when the video shows her sliding from her chair and lying face down on the floor at 5:32 a.m. on June 19. A member of hospital staff and a security can later be seen passing by without doing anything

A 5-year-old Kentucky girl with a rare disease was refused by two airlines to board a plane from Canada to China for her treatment, saying she was too sick to fly. The girl was to receive stem cell treatments for a rare fatal disease at a Beijing hospital.

After being treated at a Vancouver hospital for seizures, Miranda Goranflo and her daughter Hailey were forced to fly home to Shepherdsville, KY, when the airlines, Air China and Air Canada, decided during a layover in Vancouver, British Columbia, that she was not fit to fly for 11-hour trip

Some 22 multi-drug-resistant and extreme-drug-resistant TB patients in a South African hospital went on a rampage Wednesday to protest prison-like conditions.

The Jose Pearson TB hospital in Port Elizabeth has beefed up its security measures after the patients, 17 men and five women aged between 18 and 42, were arrested for throwing rocks at security guards and vandalising equipment. The patients were currently housed in an isolated facility in the hospital after they were returned by court and police on Thursday for fears of their highly infectious diseases