ERS Roundup: Cell Transplant Boosts Lung Function in COPD Patients
MILAN -- Research presented at this year's annual European Respiratory Society congress included early successes…
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Are ERs Safe? Patients, Nurses and Doctors Say No in New Survey
Cara Murez
FRIDAY, May 26, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Emergency departments aren’t perceived as safe for professionals or their patients,…
ER’s Error Lands a 4-Year-Old in Collections (For Care He Didn’t Receive)
Dr. Sara McLin thought she made the right choice by going to an in-network emergency room near her Florida home after her 4-year-old burned his hand on a stove last Memorial…
Long Stays Common for Kids Who Visit ERs in Mental Health Crisis
Steven Reinberg
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 28, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- It's a scenario no parent would ever want to witness: Their child suffers a mental health…
More U.S. Kids Are Heading to ERs After Drinking Cough Suppressant
Steven Reinberg
TUESDAY, Nov. 15, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Increasing numbers of young children are showing up in emergency rooms after accidentally…
After weeks of declines, U.S. Covid cases have stalled at a high level: ‘The…
Jerry Leonardson, a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) positive patient, sits in his isolation room at Madison Memorial Hospital in Rexburg, Idaho U.S., October 28, 2021.Shannon Stapleton |…
ERs Are Swamped With Seriously Ill Patients, Although Many Don’t Have Covid
By Kate Wells, Michigan Radio
Inside the emergency department at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, Michigan, staff members are struggling to care for patients showing up much sicker…
Hospitals Confront Climate Change as Patients Sick From Floods and Fires Crowd ERs
By Miranda Green
When triple-digit temperatures hit the Pacific Northwest this summer, the emergency room at Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center was ill prepared. Doctors raced to…
A Chilling Cure: Facing Killer Heat, ERs Use Body Bags to Save Lives
As a deadly heat wave scorched the Pacific Northwest last month, overwhelming hospital emergency rooms in a region unaccustomed to triple-digit temperatures, doctors resorted to a…
How ERs Fail Patients With Addiction: One Patient’s Tragic Death
By Aneri Pattani
Jameson Rybak tried to quit using opioids nearly a dozen times within five years. Each time, he’d wait out the vomiting, sweating and chills from withdrawal in…