And they work on the belief that laughter really is good medicine. One clown says as she approaches a patient, "We test funny bones, to see if they're working. Do you know where your funny bone is?" ...

“Oops” is not what a patient expects from a hospital nurse fixing to administer a pain-relieving treatment. In my case she simply had squeezed an extra gob of ...

“What’s the deal with airline food?” quipped comedian Jerry Seinfeld, priming his viewers for big laughs. “My mother-in-law is so old…” touted Johnny Carson, to which his audience’s comeback was ...

If laughter is the best medicine, Cathy Risberg was wheeling a traveling pharmacy through the hallways of Park Ridge’s Advocate Lutheran General Children’s Hospital one recent morning. Wearing a set ...

CHICAGO — If laughter is the best medicine, Cathy Risberg was wheeling a traveling pharmacy through the hallways of Park Ridge’s Advocate Lutheran General Children’s Hospital one recent morning.

YORK, Pa. — Some dads tell jokes. Others live for them. And one security officer at WellSpan Surgery and Rehabilitation Hospital has made dad jokes his daily mission. Meet Marcus Engram: a towering ...

In an effort to increase awareness of breast cancer, Sugar Land Methodist Hospital, AnnaBelles clothing boutique and the American Cancer Society are putting together a "humorous" presentation on ...

You can get a dose of late-night humor at the Carey Hand Festival Theater in downtown Orlando, where the Sak Theatre Comedy Lab production of Las Vegas Hospital finds comedy in such situations as ...

Study identified jokes that poked fun at either doctors or the health care system Out of 156 jokes%2C they gauged how well they did based on likes and online laughs ...

Think there's nothing funny about a hospital? This new NBC sitcom would beg to differ. TV writer Justin Spitzer turned a big-box store into fertile ground for a sitcom with NBC's "Superstore," which ...