Emergency Medicine News

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin on Saturday endorsed Matt Goetten over David Gill in the 13th Congressional District Democratic primary election.

Harvey Castro knows a thing or two about waiting for healthcare--he`s an emergency room doctor and like everyone else has been a patient-- and has been impatient while waiting to be seen.

Victims of the most severe car wrecks, fires and other emergencies in San Luis Obispo County are expected to benefit from Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center being named the local trauma center.

As another Valentine's Day approaches, let's take a moment to remind ourselves that as nice as candy, flowers and dinner reservations may be, true love does not require any of that.

A new service in Janesville aims to help sick patients avoid the waiting room and get back home more quickly.

PEPID, the top developer of clinical decision-support information and technology for healthcare professionals, has announced a partnership with the Quebec Association of Emergency Physicians to provide its flagship product, PEPID Emergency Medicine, to all AMUQ members.

Rhode Island Hospital has received a grant of $2.2 million from the United States Department of Defense to support a research study on a treatment that may prevent post-traumatic osteoarthritis, a common condition in men and women who suffer joint injuries to the knee and hip.

According to a recent report, the number of emergency room patients being treated for synthetic drugs has nearly doubled in one year.

Emergency room doctors nationwide are reporting an alarming increase in the number of people being treated for synthetic drug use.

Our Lady's Hospital in Navan is among eight hospital where 50 per cent or more of middle grade doctor positions remain unfilled.

The Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium Haines Health Center is pleased to announce the addition of Dr.

Mason General Hospital & Family of Clinics has joined the Telestroke Network, a southwest Washington hospital partnership set up by Providence St.

Newswise - More than 100,000 HIV tests have been performed in the emergency center at Ben Taub General Hospital, part of the Harris County Hospital District, since it began its large-scale routine HIV testing program in August 2008.

It's Valentine's Day next week, and just in time, chef Eric Akis offers a romantic dinner for two that can be whipped up in minutes.

Friday was my last day as a full-time PA in orthopedics. We had two knee scopes.

Dr. Raul Ruiz, the Democratic candidate running to unseat Rep. Mary Bono Mack, R-Palm Springs, in November unveiled his campaign website Monday.

Patients lying on gurneys in the corridors of Montreal emergency rooms is a common sight these days as health staff cope with backlogs of patients waiting for rooms to open up in the hospital wards.

A few years ago, after a severe bout with the flu, I awoke one morning convinced that my lung had grown to my rib cage overnight and it protested vehemently about being dislodged every time I coughed.

Doctors Express caters to patients who can't be seen by their own physicians or don't want to go to the emergency room.

Raul Ruiz, a Democratic candidate for the newly organized 36th Congressional District, will be the featured speaker at a meeting of Democrats of Hemet-San Jacinto on Thursday.