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Funding and resources are available for EMS to improve community health with oral care clinics, screenings
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Healthcare providers should be aware of mpox symptoms and how to properly treat patients
Palmetto General Hospital is dealing with layoffs, service cuts and a lack of supplies
Ward got her start at age 15 with the Thousand Islands Emergency Rescue Service
Some patients use specialized medical transport, but San Francisco-based Uber and Lyft are also taking people to ERs, dialysis, cancer care, physical therapy, and other medical appointments
Donate Life America found an average of 170 people a day removed themselves from the national registry in the week following coverage of the 2021 incident
Officials worry about the future of the Naloxone Bulk Purchase Fund
Fentanyl and meth fuel rising deaths in Alaska, Nevada, Washington and Oregon, prompting harm reduction efforts and tougher prosecutions
Withdrawal symptoms tended to be far worse than those experienced by even the most severe heroin users of the past
Public health workers say outbreaks this year are hitting older kids and teens
Thousands lack water in the wake of the devastation of Hurricane Helene
EMS agencies face significant geographic, racial and income-based disparities, impacting response times and patient care
State health department officials credit naloxone availability as part of the success and say there is more work to do
A study by Ohio State University and the National Registry of EMTs highlights the importance of the public鈥檚 help and calls for more awareness
Firefighters assigned to Station 11 have responded to 599 overdoses compared to 36 structure fires through August of this year
New Haven鈥檚 Elm City COMPASS has responded to nearly 2,000 calls, mostly coming from public safety dispatchers
Meth is showing up more often as a factor in the deaths of people who died from heat-related causes
FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell said false claims about withholding aid are demoralizing to relief workers
Kansas is one of more than a dozen states with no 鈥渃ertificate of need鈥� law
Approximately 17,000 people were evacuated earlier and several roads closed after a fire at the BioLab facility on Conyers sent smoke over the area
Boxes and other receptacles are appearing in several states as a way to reduce opioid deaths
Hurley officials are planning expenses for the creation of an ambulance service using fire department ambulances
EMS Assistant Chief James U. Matz said firefighters respond to up to 6,000 opioid overdoses a year
ZOLL鈥檚 donation of the National AED Registry to the Emergency AED Registry, hosted by PulsePoint, optimizes dispatch and citizen responder accessibility to AED locations
The research found that a 5-degree jump in the daily average temperature can prompt hundreds of additional calls to 911 over a month
Exeter Hospital said it will delay ending the ALS intercept program and paramedic layoffs
AdventHealth Riverview Hospital in Hillsborough County is already earmarked for future growth
Nearly a third of New Jersey nurses have left the job since 2020
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