Emergency waits get dangerously long in U.S.: study
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Patients seeking urgent care in U.S. emergency rooms are waiting longer than in the 1990s, especially people with heart attacks, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
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With Christmas a little more than a week away, many stores are finding themselves in the same predicament as in recent years: waiting for those last-minute shoppers who seem to be procrastinating even more than a year ago.
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Holiday travelers were stuck with long waits for flights at several major airports Wednesday as severe weather hit the eastern half of the United States.
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It&#39;s widely known that being stuck in traffic can stress drivers out, but a new study now suggests it also increases the risk of a heart attack in susceptible people.
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Setting tight work deadlines can raise the risk of suffering a heart attack six-fold, researchers believe. Staff working hard to get a task completed on time were six times more likely to have an attack in the next 24 hours than co-workers, a study said.
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An "alarming" number of patients with suspected breast cancer wait too long for diagnosis, doctors warn.
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Patients aren&#39;t getting the clot-busting treatment they need on time, a study says. TORONTO -- Emergency room overcrowding is standing between heart attack patients and the clot-busting drugs they need to
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[Health India]: Washington, Dec 14 :People under pressure to meet deadlines are six times more likely to suffer from a heart attack, a new research reveals.
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Most states in the US are still ill-prepared to cope with a bioterror attack or other public health emergency, even after a surge in federal spending for such efforts since the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks.
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Giant tsunamis are more likely to hit the U.S. Pacific coast than to hit Asia, scientists say. Coastal residents may have only 15 minutes' warning.
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They can run, and they can hide US network operators who can't locate their customers in the case of an emergency are facing fines of over $2m, having already been given 18-months grace to comply.â¦
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Millions of people with chest pain enter emergency room limbo, spending up to 24 hours waiting for tests to tell if a heart attack really is brewing or if it's something less dire.
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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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The risk of suffering a heart attack soars by six times in the 24 hours following a high pressure work deadline, researchers have warned.
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Emergency rooms at many hospitals are routinely stretched to the breaking point, raising concerns that they would not be able to handle victims during a terrorist attack or natural disaster, according to congressional testimony yesterday and a new federal study.
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Can first responders find you in an emergency? Don't count on it just yet, despite years of work by wireless providers.
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There have always been problems with distributing urgent public safety information. These problems show up, over and over, with every hurricane, tornado, flood and wildfire. At this moment in history, problems fall in three areas of responsibility (and, for that matter, responsiveness):  The old official channels (radio, TV, newspapers) are scaling back on live news coverage (or on news coverage, period) The new official channels (web sites and services, &quot;reverse 911&quot;) are still, as we've been saying since 1995, &quot;under construction&quot;.  The new unofficial channels (cell phones, blogs, RSS feeds, phone trees) are still no substitute for the Real Thing, whatever it will become. \