Emergency Medicine News

Walk-in medical centers like this RediClinic inside a New York City drugstore are increasingly treating people who either don't have a regular doctor or can't get in to see one when they need to.

The number of A&E patients admitted to hospital rises dramatically in the last ten minutes of the waiting target, statistics for England show.

EL PASO COUNTY Often times, it's the emergency room doctors and nurses who are the first ones to see some of the county's most severe child abuse cases.

Last Friday, I received a call that my mother was being taken to the hospital from the nursing home where she lives.

Albert Einstein Healthcare Network , Philadelphia, has appointed Richard C. Sheerr chairman of the board of trustees, the governing body of the organization, and the board of overseers, which acts in an advisory and fund-raising capacity.

The number of flu cases in New York City ERs jumped 25 percent this Monday. Though many emergency departments said such a "post-weekend bump" in ER visits is common, for one Brooklyn hospital, it was more than just a case of the Mondays.

Huntsville Emergency Medical Services Inc. has a brand new Station 1 building on Governors Drive.

People wait in a lengthy line to get H1N1 flu shots last month during a clinic held in the offices of Columbus Public Health.

In 2002, emergency medicine specialists at the Denver Health Medical Center wanted to find out how much response times affected the survival of the major trauma patients they treated - often the victims of car crashes, gunshots and stabbings.

For five desperate minutes, emergency room doctors at UC Davis Medical Center frantically tried to revive Scott Hawkins.

On September 30, 2009, a new law took effect in Arizona making it more difficult for patients to bring medical malpractice claims against ER doctors and others providing emergency medical treatment.

GUEST FASHION EDITOR: Dr. Allison Silver Schwartz After living in scrubs for 14 years for her job as an emergency medicine physician, Dr.

The state Health Department's Emergency Medicine and Trauma Education Centre began a three-day workshop at the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital on Wednesday.

A study by emergency physicians at Children's Hospital Boston provides a wakeup call to parents to get rid of their old glass thermometers.

The number of emergency room doctors at the Saint John Regional Hospital is on the rise again.

It seems that each day brings a new piece of information, or a recommendation regarding the H1N1 virus.

For the first time, emergency room services meeting international standards will be a part Tanzania's public health system, thanks to the opening of a new Emergency Medical Department building and extensive training being conducted at Muhimbili National Hospital.

The Lexington Herald-Leader reports that the clinic opened Monday and will operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Record numbers of patients are stretching Christchurch Hospital's emergency department.

Coimbatore: The government plans to set up more trauma care centres on highways in two phases, and acquire 300 more ambulances, according to V.K. Subburaj, Principal Secretary, Department of Health and Family Welfare.