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THE MAIL ONLINE - Australian paramedics back in motherland: short-staffed ambulance ranks to take up jobs in the UK. 175 paramedics flee Australia's short-staffed ambulance ranks to take up jobs in the UK, where they work less and earn up…

English speaking Pediatric Nurses needed for a Specialist Pediatrics and Women’s Health Hospital in Qatar (www.sidra.org). Sidra will open at the beginning of 2016 and is currently attracting the most talented Pediatric Nurses from the…

Increasing Paramedic Students' Resiliency to Stress: Assessing correlates and the impact of interventionby Shirley Porter and Andrew JohnsonAbstract Source: The College Quarterly, Toronto This pilot study focused on paramedic students in…

Two chemists, one who kicked off the development of Viagra and another who is a YouTube celebrity, have received knighthoods in the New Year Honours. Dr Simon Campbell started and oversaw research on Viagra while working for the drug…

FURTHER strikes could be held by ambulance staff again in January as a dispute over pay with central Government continues. Members of union GMB, some of whom work for the South Central Ambulance Service (SCAS), have said that if progress is…

Firefighters have physically and mentally demanding jobs which means we (as fire rescue athletes) have demanding nutritional needs to match. Unfortunately, research confirms that most are deficient in some essential nutrients. The most…

The NHS would be "in dire straits" without migrant workers, one of the UK's senior economists has claimed. Stephen Nickell, who is on the board of the Office for Budget Responsibility, suggested 35% of "health professionals" came from…

EFFINGHAM, Ill. — Sandy Bugenhagen and Duckie Johnson have been Emergency Medical Technicians in Shelby County for more than three decades. They've seen far fewer new recruits in recent years, and say that could put people at risk as…

The home care system in England is close to crisis because of the way workers are exploited, a report says. The review, led by former Care Minister Paul Burstow, found a combination of inadequate funding and poor working practices was…

Civil Disobedience and Physicians — Protesting the Blockade of Medicaid Charles van der Horst, M.D. on  NEJM On May 6, 2013, I was arrested by the North Carolina Capitol Police in front of the doors of the state Senate chamber, protesting…