According to Agence France-Presse, Syrian state media reported Tuesday that rebel forces had launched a rocket attack on a hospital in a government-held neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria’s second city, leaving at least three dead and 17 others wounded.

At Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia, more than 800 nurses are voting tonight on whether to unionize. The company’s shocking plan to stop them: old cookies.

The University of North Carolina’s N.C. Children’s Specialty Clinic will now be known as the Krispy Kreme Challenge Children’s Specialty Clinic, named after a tasty treat that’s filled with fat and sugar and will make you obese and die.

A Long Island woman claims she was drugged and locked in a hospital psych ward for 8 days because a doctor didn’t believe Barack Obama followed her on Twitter.

A woman who nearly died of cardiac arrest last year is now facing bankruptcy because she was taken to the "wrong" hospital while unconscious. Although she has insurance, the medical center that saved her life is out-of-network.

There are many things wrong with the bloated, expensive American health care system. I would like to complain about one small part of it: the prices. It's not just that the prices are high. It's that... where the hell are the prices?

When Louisiana ran out of lethal injection drugs this year, officials announced the state would switch to a new two-drug cocktail. But what they apparently failed to disclose was that the new drugs had been purchased from a hospital that thought it was healing prison hospital patients.

Richard Plotts, the 49-year-old suspect accused of killing his caseworker and injuring his psychiatrist at a Philadelphia-area hospital on Thursday, will be charged with murder, authorities say. Plotts reportedly had a long history with guns and mental illness.

A woman who dressed up like a nurse and stole a 16-hour-old baby from a hospital yesterday was arrested after a group of Canadian youths tracked her down.

Three people from an unlucky California family were hospitalized after they were attacked by their pet cat.

When Sergio Branco was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia earlier this year, his family knew the resulting medical expenses would rack up quickly.

Anthony Stokes, a 15-year-old boy from DeKalb County, Ga., has less than six months to live. A heart transplant would save his life. But his hospital refuses to put him on the transplant list.

As Kate Middleton regrets more and more her decision 9 months ago to prank the world by claiming to be pregnant, the caravan of international media camped outside her hospital inches ever closer to delirium. Earlier this week, some news services began offering live-streaming video of the hospital doors through which the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge may or may not pass when Kate Middleton gives birth. The result: 20 hours a day of a still shot of windows (sometimes a street shot of doors) and some of the best eavesdropping currently available on the Internet.

In October 2009, the St. Joseph's Hospital in Syracuse ruled a woman dead and, with the permission of the woman's family, prepared to remove her organs for donation. Then, as she was on the operating table, surrounded by doctors and hospital staff, the woman opened her eyes. She was alive.

A veteran nurse is suing the Hurley Medical Center in Flint, Mich., over what she says was a request by a swastika-tattooed man that no African-American nurses care for his child—a request the hospital allowed.

When George H.W. Bush was released yesterday from the intensive care unit of a Houston hospital, most news outlets reported the event in a straight forward enough fashion, with some even taking the opportunity to compliment the 88-year-old on his excellent taste in socks. Germany's Der Spiegel, however, took a different approach; instead of reporting his improving health, the magazine accidentally published their pre-written obituary for the former president.

George H.W. Bush is in intensive care at a Houston hospital thanks to a lingering fever relating to bronchitis. He's been there since before Christmas, and the fever has gotten worse, but he's "alert and talking to medical staff" and his doctors are "cautiously optimistic" — an aide tells CBS that the former president "would ask me to tell you to please put the harps back in the closet." And, luckily, Christmas wasn't ruined — he's been visited by his sons Neil, Jeb and George, whom you may have heard of. [WSJ]

Kate Middleton left the hospital this morning after giving birth to a beautiful bouquet of yellow roses. According to an official statement, she will now travel to Kensington Palace "for a period of rest."

If you are reading these words from a hospital, chances are you either are about to or already have died. Very sorry that's how things shook out for you, but that's what you get for going to the hospital in July.

Recently-retired 60 Minutes correspondent Andy Rooney is in "stable" but "serious" condition at a hospital following complications from surgery. Rooney's last segment on 60 Minutes—his 1,097th—aired three weeks ago. He is 92. [CBS News]