The amount of time spent in EMT class dedicated to the knowledge and skills needed to patient assessment clearly indicates the importance placed on the EMT having the ability to competently ...

New data published today shows that 784 patients a day were in hospital with norovirus last week (week ending 19 January 2025), up from 650 the previous week. Levels ...

New guidelines are in place for Alberta doctors who, for safety reasons, decide to reduce the number of patients on their roster. Acknowledging the province's health-care system is under strain ...

'Don't worry, I've got her': Eastern Cape surfer, 16, saves 3 family ...

Medicare patients referred to a neurologist had to wait a median of 34 days before being seen, and nearly 1 in 5 patients waited more than 90 days, in 2018 and 2019, according to a study published ...

It wasn’t until the pandemic that the real dangers to Black patients became clear. In 2021, the Food and Drug Administration warned about flawed pulse oximeter readings on darker skin.

Patients on trolleys lined up head to toe are the “new normal” in casualty, says a top doctor. We were given exclusive access to the front line days after a survey of 5,000 nursing staff ...

There is currently no cure for multiple myeloma. It gets very frustrating for patients when they see everything that's there, and they cannot yet get access to it. - Glen Hussey, multiple myeloma ...

A sharp rise in flu cases in Ottawa, along with COVID-19 and other viruses, is putting pressure on hospitals that is being felt in their hallways and emergency departments, where patients are ...

About 30 per cent of patients who require hospital admission are still waiting in emergency eight hours after arrival, according to the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine. Long wait ...

Because public health agencies have learned that these patients had bird flu days or weeks after the person became ill, it has hampered efforts to find out how they were exposed and make sure they ...

Patients are dying in corridors and sometimes going undiscovered for hours, while sick people are being left to soil themselves, according to a damning report into the state of the NHS. The Royal ...