Children had half as many emergency department visits if their primary care office had evening office hours on five or more days a week, according to new research from child health experts at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital and Johns Hopkins University. The new study was published online this...
Last month, I bought a new phone called LG Escape, an android. Its really nice and all, except for the emergency button located in the bottom of the lock screen. Everytime I put it in my bag, jean pocket, or anywhere, any contact with it, it somehow touches the 911 button. I'm constantly...
Last month, I bought a new phone called LG Escape, an android. Its really nice and all, except for the emergency button located in the bottom of the lock screen. Everytime I put it in my bag, jean pocket, or anywhere, any contact with it, it somehow touches the 911 button. I'm constantly...
Good news, ladies and gents: Emergency contraception (aka "Plan B" or the morning-after pill) will indeed be sold over-the-counter in drugstores with lower age restrictions -- and without caveats from the federal government. More »
Feds Finally Cave On Over-The-Counter Emergency Contraception...
There is an increasing need for safe emergency anaesthesia as cases of emergency Caesarean section (CS) continue to rise, say experts speaking at Euroanaesthesia, the annual congress of the European Society of Anaesthesiology (ESA). Dr Geraldine O'Sullivan (Lead clinician for obstetric...
Children admitted to UK intensive care units in out-of-hours emergencies are at no greater risk of dying than children arriving during normal working hours, according to new research. However, mortality rates are significantly higher in the winter, even after taking into account added health...
Radio communications can be unreliable in underground tunnels and other large, complicated structures, posing a safety hazard for emergency responders. New tests of wireless emergency safety equipment by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have defined the challenges more...
Each year, more than 130,000 children younger than 13 are treated in U.S. emergency departments after motor-vehicle crash-related injuries. Each of these visits offer a chance to pass along tips for proper use of child passenger restraints, but a new study from the University of Michigan...
Use of emergency contraception has more than doubled recently, the New York Times reports. New federal data shows that between 2006 and 2010, 11% of sexually active women used the so-called "morning after pill," up from 4% in 2002.*And among early-twenty-somethings, almost 25% having used...
JAMA Internal Medicine Study Highlights According to a research letter reporting the findings of a study by Donald Edmondson, Ph.D., and colleagues at Columbia University Medical Center, New York, emergency department (ED) crowding may be associated with acute coronary syndrome (ACS)-induced...
People who receive primary care from free clinics are less likely to use the emergency department for minor issues, according to a team of medical researchers. Nationally, the number of emergency departments (EDs) has decreased yet the number of ED visits has gone up, the team reported...
The Mayor of Boston has announced that the city is officially in a state of 'public health emergency' due to the sheer number of flu cases that have hit the city. The flu season started on October 1st; since then there have been over 700 residents of Boston with confirmed cases of flu. This is...
Few adolescent females undergo pregnancy testing in the hospital emergency department (ED), even when they complain of lower abdominal pain, or before they are exposed to radiation for tests or examinations, according to an abstract presented at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) National...
Twenty-nine percent of patients with colorectal cancer in a nationally representative sample were diagnosed after an emergency, such as an obstruction or perforation of the bowel, according to data presented at the 11th Annual AACR International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention...
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ST. LOUIS — If rookie Matt Carpenter happens to be unhappy with his representation, then teammate David Freese might be his best bet for an agent. Freese*paid him a high compliment Wednesday night, probably the most meaningful platitude one player can...
I feel a bit ridiculous even typing that question, but I really am interested. I'm 17 and I'm really in to working out. I have very high metabolism and I run track, so gaining weight is really difficult. I am really cut but I want to start putting on weight, not just becoming more defined. I eat...
I feel a bit ridiculous even typing that question, but I really am interested. I'm 17 and I'm really in to working out. I have very high metabolism and I run track, so gaining weight is really difficult. I am really cut but I want to start putting on weight, not just becoming more defined. I eat...
A plane carrying the Baltimore Orioles made an unexpected landing on Sunday night and it wasn't so the playoff-bound team could restock on beer and champagne.
According to the Baltimore Sun, the team's charter flight made an emergency landing in Jacksonsville, Fla., after smoke was spotted...
Alright so recently my dad bought me a Volkswagen Jetta 2005 and the trunk appeared to be working just fine. Just today, I went to put something in it, and it would not open. I already tried:
the trunk button on the key
using the key to unlock the trunk
the trunk button at the front of the car...