An elderly woman won a $1. 27 million lawsuit in court on Tuesday as jury members agreed that her leg wound was neglected at the Renova Health Center in Lake Park where she had undergone surgery. Mary Stewart, 72, claimed that the doctor at the nursing home found hundreds of maggots in the wound on her leg over 2

A judge clears the way for New Jersey's worst serial killer to donate a kidney. If Charles Cullen and his doctors meet certain conditions, he may undergo an operation to remove one of his kidneys.

An unusual program in Germany is teaching practioners of the "world's oldest profession" a new skill. Prostitutes are getting the chance to enrolling in a nursing program. The initiative funded by the a religious group and the European Union is aimed at addressing the nation's nursing shortage, while offering women an alternative to prostitution.

Pigs are rumored to eat just about anything. But one German farmer's choice of feed got him in trouble with authorities. Police charged the 29-year-old farmer from the town of Frizlar-Haddamar with improper burial after he fed the corpse of an elderly family friend to his pigs.

Residents at the Deerings Nursing Home have a special secret Santa: 99-year-old Sybil Rice, who lives alone and makes gift baskets for them. On Monday, she and her family delivered 70 baskets to residents.