Health

A woman whose life was considered at risk because of head pain was forced to wait more than an hour and a half for an ambulance, it has emerged. Paramedics reached the 36-year-old woman in Staffordshire in 104 minutes - well short of…

With Military operations in Afghanistan having drawn to a close at the end of 2014, Medical evacuation services are now increasingly operating in austere environments and facing new medical and logistical challenges. Such challenges include…

SOURCE: THE WRAP - Johnson & Johnson and Eggland’s Best tell TheWrap they have withdrawn ads over the hosts’ comments about nursing profession. 2 sponsors (Johnson & Johnson and Eggland's Best) have pulled ads from ABC’s “The…

The Victorian Government has stopped the "hospital bypass" practice, that permits to the metropolitan hospitals to deny access to patient in non-critical conditions if they are full.

At the IAA annual conference held in London in May, mr. Kenneth Kronohage (Director of Special Projects for Falck) unveiled a report produced by Quartz+Co and commissioned by Falck Emergency Europe which disputed the EXPH findings…

BMJ CAREERS - Rudeness in medical teams harms clinical performance and could have “potentially devastating” consequences for patients, a study has found. The Israeli study looked at the performance of neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)…

More than £6.5m is to be spent on 44 new ambulances for the Welsh Ambulance Service. Health Minister Mark Drakeford said the investment would allow the service to buy 35 standard ambulances and six non-emergency patient transport vehicles…

Lower may be better for kidney diseases and heart disease when treating high blood pressure, federal health officials said when announcing they were ending a major study more than a year early due to “potentially lifesaving information.”

MLIVE - A new pilot project allows people without life-threatening symptoms to receive medical care at home from paramedics in Washtenaw and Livingston counties. The program, which began Aug. 7 and is funded by Huron Valley Ambulance and…

KENDRAPARA - The ambulance service in Kendrapara district was paralysed as the drivers launched a protest against the attack on a driver at taxi stand near the court in the town on Sunday. The agitating drivers and emergency medical…