Dealing with a serious illness or injury is scary enough, but then there's the fact that often you have to quickly learn complicated medical terminology. Fostoria Community Hospital has been working to improve health literacy. This includes not just making...

DEAF and deafblind people across Dumfries and Galloway are to be helped by a new development project which was launched this week. DeafVision Dumfries and Galloway includes the appointment of a new development worker, Claire Unwin. Her role will be to...

Mildred Scharf Ehrenfeld's philosophy on health care is this: As Americans, if we're confused about how to access our own health-care system, how are people who don't speak our language supposed to know what to do or where to go? "I became so inundated with...

A unique program at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center is helping health care professionals understand and treat patients better by teaching them how to communicate with patients who do not speak English. The three-semester Medical Spanish...