Mohamud Aden sat in urgent care at Regions Hospital with a Somali immigrant who knew little English but spoke the international language of sick – snort, cough, cough, cough, snort! The 24-year-old ...

Howard County General Hospital should hire its own foreign language interpreters to handle the non-English speaking women giving birth there, said a local agency that works closely with foreign-born ...

Even people who speak English fluently often find that conversations with healthcare professionals sound like Greek to them. So imagine if you speak only Greek or Spanish or Farsi and want to have, ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Hospitalized patients who aren’t fluent in English end up spending fewer days in the hospital when they get help from a language interpreter at certain crucial times, ...

The name of Dr. Abdul Mazin has been corrected. From broken bones to burns, rashes, accidents, coughs, colds and fevers, kids of all ages, shapes and sizes cause parents endless worry when health is ...

JACKSONVILLE - The hiring of two full-time language interpreters at Passavant Area Hospital -- one Spanish speaking, one French -- reflects the changing patient population served by the Jacksonville ...

A deaf man who spent 24 hours in hospital without the support of an interpreter said staff were shouting out his name despite being told he could not hear. Terry Murray, from Rugby, is among a group ...