Federal hospital safety metric fails to accurately assess emergency stroke care
A new UCLA study reveals that a widely used federal hospital safety metric is fundamentally flawed when applied to emergency ...
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Updated 2024-25 COVID vaccine cut emergency visits among kids, study suggests
AÂ new analysis from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finds that the 2024-25 COVID-19 vaccine substantially reduced the ...
Emergency medicine workers report job satisfaction, though burnout and staff retention remain major problems
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain One of the largest international surveys into job satisfaction among emergency department workers has revealed that ...
New freezing method slashes thaw time for emergency blood transfusions
Graphical abstract. Credit: Cryobiology (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.cryobiol.2025.105295 A transformative new method for freezing human red blood cells has been developed ...
Ethiopia’s emergency medical response system is up and running. what other countries can learn from it
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Ethiopia has built a national emergency medical team and hosts Africa's first World Health Organization (WHO)-certified ...
Emergency vaccines slash deaths by 60%: Study
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Emergency vaccination during outbreaks of diseases like cholera, Ebola and measles have over the past quarter-century ...
2020 to 2022 saw nearly 2 million annual emergency room visits for dental issues
Tooth disorders accounted for an annual average of 1,944,000 emergency department visits during 2020 to 2022, according to a June ...
Hallucinogen use linked to 2.6-fold increase in risk of death for people needing emergency care
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain People seeking emergency care for hallucinogen use were at a 2.6-fold higher risk of death within ...
WHO extends mpox emergency as more transmissible clade 1a variant identified in DR Congo
Following a meeting of its mpox emergency committee yesterday, the World Health Organization (WHO) today accepted the experts' recommendation that ...
Study assesses safety and accuracy in emergency medicine
Study evaluates large language model for emergency medicine handoff notes, finding high usefulness and safety comparable to physicians Study:Â Developing and ...
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