Alternative trauma centers considered
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Hospital options for critically injured victims in Monterey County will be fewer with the impending closure of San Jose Medical Center in December.
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When three bullets ripped into Jose Vasquez's back and leg during a gang shooting in Compton, paramedics rushed him to a sadly familiar place: the trauma unit at the Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center.
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LOS ANGELES -- County supervisors recommended Monday that problem-plagued Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center drop its trauma services as part of a &quot;comprehensive rescue plan&quot; to lighten the load in its emergency department.
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By B.C. Manion, Tampa Tribune, Fla.  Jun. 2--Mowing the lawn and puttering in your garden don't seem all that dangerous, but thousands of people go to the emergency room every year because of injuries in their yard.
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NEW YORK  - Having difficulty breathing?   Sudden pain? Sudden changes in vision? Get to the emergency   department, advises the American College of Emergency   Physicians.
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By David Bauder THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  NEW YORK -- Scalpels and damaged doctors at 10 paces: an interesting duel of medical shows is emerging for the second half of the television season.
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BAGHDAD -- In a city with few real refuges from sectarian violence -- not government offices, not military bases, not even mosques -- one place always emerged as a haven: a hospital .
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SAN JOSE, Calif. Health officials hope to be able to open another trauma center in San Jose to replace one that is due to close next month.
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LOS ANGELES A civil rights debate is surrounding the proposed closure of a trauma unit at a troubled Los Angeles County public hospital.
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President Bush on Friday named seven more members to the commission investigating the treatment of wounded veterans. Bush has ordered a comprehensive review of conditions at military and veterans hospitals, which have been overwhelmed by injured troops from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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One school of thought would provide alternative development aid locally. The other focuses on prevention, rehabilitation, and treatment.
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Hospitals will be allowed to claim for the cost of treating people injured at work, under plans being considered.
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If time spent transporting a suspected heart attack victim to a hospital could be used to work out a diagnosis and treatment plan, doctors say, more lives could be saved &#151; and now that will be possible in central Arkansas.
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By Suzanne Hoholik, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Feb. 12--Ideally, patients could go to any central Ohio hospital and, with a few taps on a keyboard, staff members could read their medical histories.
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For paramedics in rural areas, responding to frantic calls for help is at times akin to doing a high-wire act without a net. Mountains, valleys, bad weather and long distances between hospitals make communication with emergency room physicians spotty at best and nonexistent at worst.
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A blood substitute the military wants to test on civilian trauma victims is urgently needed to save lives on the battlefield in places like Iraq, a Navy official told federal advisers Thursday.
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St. Francis Heart Hospital in Tulsa, Okla., was built to be digital from the ground up. By Marianne Kolbasuk McGee. While many existing hospitals across the country are attempting to transform from paper-burdened