WSJ.com: The Informed Patient

Laura Landro undergoes a custom-designed personal health plan to determine the health risks she faces and to prescribe behavior and lifestyle changes.

Hospitals are relying on electronic tracking systems to keep tabs on equipment, and even patients and staff. But the heightened surveillance is raising some safety and privacy concerns.

Amid rising blood costs and safety concerns about transfusions, hospitals are adopting stricter measures to manage their blood supplies.

More patients needing intravenous medications are getting their treatments at home. But Medicare coverage is making it harder for some to do so.

A class of bacteria once thought to be fairly benign is emerging as a deadly threat to the most vulnerable patients.

C. diff is fast emerging as one of the most dangerous and virulent foes in the war against antibiotic "superbugs."

Hospitals are turning to a new breed of antibiotic SWAT team to win the war against "superbugs" -- the bacteria that are outmaneuvering nearly every weapon in the arsenal of drugs long used to figh...

Some medical institutions are redesigning patient-treatment areas to be more appealing in hopes to ease patients' stress, and perhaps influence a patient's outcome for the better.

Patients who need immediate care for injuries and illness are turning to walk-in urgent-care clinics. There are currently more than 8,000 urgent-care centers around the country and that number is e...

Adults are notoriously lax when it comes to getting vaccinated. Now, disease experts and health officials are calling for a national program to make immunization as routine a part of health care fo...