Emergency Medicine News

Most people are happy with one successful career, but Barry Pollack isn't most people.

The Ministry of Health is publishing DHB national league tables widely. This week, health reporter Martin Johnston is delving into how the boards perform in six target areas, starting with emergency departments When Auckland Hospital's new emergency department opened in 2003, its clinical director, Peter Freeman, promised to quit if patients were ...

On a typical day in South Charleston, Dr. Gregory Burnette treats a few babies with fevers, a few sprained ankles and sinus infections and, these days, plenty of flu sufferers.

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A new University of California Davis study on physician job satisfaction found differences among medical specialties, with the happiest doctors caring for children and the elderly.

The National Prescribing Service welcomes calls for improved complementary and alternate medicine training in universities and says all health professionals have a responsibility to ensure these products are used safely.

Thanksgiving is a time of eating turkey, gathering with family -- and sometimes taking your elderly loved one to the emergency room.

EAST Lancashire Hospitals' top casualty consultant has stepped down from his role as an associate director.

Nathan Streit, 20, is hospitalized with flu like symptoms in the Mercy Health Partners Mercy Campus emergency room near his girlfriend, Jenifer Bates, 17.

From the Department of Emergency Medicine , West Virginia University, Morgantown, WVa; and the P.I. Reed School of Journalism , West Virginia University, Morgantown, WVa.

Don Shuman, 66, visits a work site in Upperville, Va. The owner of a small Culpeper construction company says health care costs and the economic downturn forced him to cut his workforce from seven people in 1993 to three today.

A 'significant' number of children overdosing on cough medication appear to have been intentional to keep them quiet, a new report concluded.

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.