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    "Boomeritis" Hits Aging Athletes  Jul 4, 2009
    Exercise- and exercise equipment-related injuries sent more than 166,000 people in this age group to the emergency room, clinic or doctor's office in 2008, according to the US Consumer Products Safety Commission. These injuries are largely due to people not giving themselves enough time to rest up after tough workouts, according to Monto, an orthopedic surgeon practicing in Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. (MEDLINEplus)

    Hawaii court blocks state furlough plan  Jul 4, 2009
    "State Attorney General Mark Bennett, representing Lingle, said state labor law gives the governor the authority to determine the methods, means and personnel to conduct state operations and take actions that may be necessary in cases of emergency.Lingle has described the budget deficit as a fiscal emergency but she has not officially declared a state emergency, such as after a natural disaster or terrorist attack. Projected state revenues have fallen by more than $2.7 billion over the past year... (Honolulu Advertiser)

    Mercy Center threatened by potential loss of tenant (1298)  Jul 3, 2009
    "I'm very dedicated to the idea of a state-of-the-art health care provider for Benton Harbor. They're not going to get the right care by going to the emergency room. There needs to be good health care service right here." ... In a phone interview, he said more than half of the patients visiting Lakeland's emergency room in St. Joseph are Benton Harbor residents who do not have a primary care doctor ... "We've encouraged InterCare to have evening and weekend hours to bring them into the... (The Herald-Palladium)

    Where stilled hearts beat  Jul 3, 2009
    "They took people who were basically dead, not all that different than Michael Jackson, and saved most of them," said Dr. Lance Becker, an emergency medicine specialist at the University of Pennsylvania and an American Heart Association spokesman. Could Jackson, too, have been saved. (Albany Times Union)

    Local Resident Continues Planning for Childrens Home  Jul 3, 2009
    Fuhrman also has plans for a fifth building to house staff and an area for emergency beds. Another much larger building will house offices, kitchen, classrooms and a gymnasium. (Missourian Publishing, MO)

    Few Survive Cardiac Arrest, Even With CPR  Jul 3, 2009
    Dr. Lance Becker, a University of Pennsylvania emergency medicine specialist and an American Heart Association spokesman, called the findings "grim" and "a wake-up call that we need to redouble our efforts" to find better ways to treat cardiac arrest. It occurs when the heart quivers or stops beating entirely, because of a heart attack, a sudden heart rhythm problem, a drug overdose or other cause. (CBS News)

    Mayor Sanders Reacts To State's IOU Plans  Jul 3, 2009
    Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared a fiscal emergency, and ordered state workers to take more unpaid furlough days. At a morning news conference in Los Angeles, Schwarzenegger chided the Legislature for inaction. (TheSanDiegoChannel.com, CA)

    Somerville center's Cambridge clients left in the lurch by state cuts  Jul 3, 2009
    All they are asking for is emergency support and some social time it s not a lavish extra. Clinical Director Karen Procacini wonders how they will balance out services at the center after the recent cuts, especially as there are no clear answers from the state on support services like transportation, which may also be cut soon. (Cambridge Chronicle, MA)

    Seek Out Credentials Before Choosing a Physician - Is Your Cardiologist Board Certified in Cardiovascular Disease?  Jul 3, 2009
    The 24 Member Boards that make up the ABMS Board Enterprise, cover over 145 medical specialties and subspecialties, and include: American Board of Allergy and Immunology, American Board of Anesthesiology, American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery, American Board of Dermatology, American Board of Emergency Medicine, American Board of Family Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine, American Board of Medical Genetics, American Board of Neurological Surgery, American Board of Nuclear... (PR Newswire)

    Electric shutoffs violated state law  Jul 3, 2009
    That Sir is a FACT. " Missy wrote on Jun 26, 2009 2:01 PM:" To Publisher:In the Albany Ledger today (Gentry County) the headlines readCounty Establishes cooling centers"Due to the high temperature & high humidity 6 facilities in Gentry County will serve as cooling centers for the citizens that do not have air conditioning or an electric fan." This was quoted by Robert Crockett Gentry County Emergency Management director. How come Clinton County nor Dekalb County have this and whom is the... (Cameron Observer, MO)

    Barriers Hinder EMS Workers From Using Best Resuscitation Practices, Study Finds  Jul 3, 2009
    ScienceDaily (July 2, 2009) Local laws, insurance reimbursement and public misperceptions impede emergency medical services (EMS) workers from using best resuscitation practices, according to a study reported in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes ... Less than half of local EMS systems follow national guidelines on transporting cardiac arrest patients and terminating unsuccessful out-of-hospital resuscitation efforts, said researchers who conducted three small focus groups at the... (Science Daily)

    Tips for runners: What happens to your body during a race  Jul 2, 2009
    They can advise runners on whether a trip to the emergency room is necessary. Most common post-race complaint: headaches, usually caused by dehydration. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)

    Jacksons hospital known for raising the dead  Jul 2, 2009
    The screen shows an illustration of how a heart-lung machine is used in an emergency room setting to keep blood and oxygen moving through the body ... "They took people who were basically dead, not all that different than Michael Jackson, and saved most of them," said Dr. Lance Becker, an emergency medicine specialist at the University of Pennsylvania and an American Heart Association spokesman. (MSNBC -- Health)

    FDA advisers vote to take Vicodin...  Jul 2, 2009
    Although acetaminophen is one of the most commonly used drugs in the United States for treating pain and fever, overdoses of acetaminophen have been linked to 56,000 emergency room visits, 26,000 hospitalizations and 458 deaths during the 1990s, according to the FDA, citing one study. The agency cited another study, a 2007 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention population-based report, that estimated acetaminophen was the likely cause of most of the estimated 1,600 acute liver failures each... (CNN -- Law)

    Docs give up, Viagra keeps baby alive  Jul 2, 2009
    He underwent an emergency operation to repair his heart when he was just 16 days old, but despite initially showing promising signs of recovery he was soon back in hospital. Last October his family was told he had between two weeks and two months to live, but after experts from Great Ormond Street heard of his ordeal they visited their Leeds colleagues and suggested Viagra could save him. (India Times, India)

    Even After Death, Heart Attack Treatment May Not End  Jul 2, 2009
    "Paramedics provide all the same lifesaving procedures that we can provide in the emergency department," said the study's lead researcher, Dr. Comilla Sasson, Robert Wood Johnson clinical scholar and clinical lecturer in emergency medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School ... "When you bring in a patient that is essentially dead, all of your resources go to that patient, which leaves the rest of the emergency department unmanned," she said ... The findings explained by Sasson stemmed... (MEDLINEplus)

    Sea Level Rise: Its worse than we thought, Anil Ananthaswamy, New Scientist  Jul 2, 2009
    Yup, and Bush, your most incompetent and corrupt president ever cut funding for levy maintainance, as his corrupt brother sold the city emergency pumps that were broken. "The money was not spent." - Harbinger. (Harper's Magazine)

    James Howard Kunstler on Michael Jackson as America  Jul 2, 2009
    Clusterfuck Nation Comment on Current Events by the Author of "The Long Emergency". Monthly. (Harper's Magazine)

    Socialized medicine takes away freedom  Jul 2, 2009
    " Moving health insurance to a government system gives us exactly that type of control, where it is lacking under a private system. Government is certainly not perfect, but at least it aspires to give the people a voice, where private insurance aspires only to profits for CEOs and shareholders.Your theory is that we will become slaves under the control of the government? You would rather us remain as slaves to corporations?Would you support moving other government functions to private control?... (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)

    "Better" Health Care?  Jul 2, 2009
    In America, people wait in emergency rooms, too, but it's much worse in Canada ... "We can't send these patients to other hospitals. Dr. Eric Letovsky told us. "Every other emergency department in the country is just as packed as we are. (Townhall.com)

    A long day's journey into adulthood  Jul 2, 2009
    Not to mention motels, souvenirs, entrance fees, emergency toothbrushes, ice for the cooler, appalling quantities of soda and chips, daily ice cream treats and value meals at all the major fast food outlets, at every one of which we were urged to order the big-calorie version of whatever it was that we wanted. The geographic zone we explored was bounded by Detroit Lakes on the east, Yellowstone National Park on the west, Washburn on the north and darkest Kansas on the south. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)

    Comoros Crash Survivor Arrives In Paris  Jul 2, 2009
    An emergency ambulance drove up to the aircraft, and she was expected to be taken immediately to a hospital. At the foot of the aircraft was her father, Kassim, as well as several other members of her family. (KFOXTV.com, TX)

    Lack of sleep 'hits women harder'  Jul 2, 2009
    Page last updated at 11:27 GMT, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 12:27 UK. Lack of sleep 'hits women harder. (BBC News -- Health)

     Team shaves heads in support of injured teammate  Jul 2, 2009
    With a shiner and noticeable indention in his forehead he was taken to the emergency room where they suspected he had a broken eye socket. Fortunately, the eye itself was not damaged, but he needed followup with a plastic surgeon for the fracture. (Park Hills Daily Journal, MO)

    Flight Diverted After Passenger Gets Naked  Jul 2, 2009
    The flight attendants also were dealing with an unrelated onboard medical emergency at the same time, which exacerbated the situation, the FBI said. The aircraft was diverted because of the medical emergency, and Wright's actions were a secondary reason for the unplanned landing, the complaint said. (KSBW 8, CA)

    British actors dominate TV Globes  Jul 2, 2009
    ----------------- ----------------- RELATED BBC SITES. Last Updated: Tuesday, 16 January 2007, 10:47 GMT. (Yahoo News -- Golden Globe Awards)

    Heading for the emergency room  Jul 2, 2009
    With the truly poor, the free-riders turn up at emergency rooms. This is hugely inefficient, because pricey late interventions and operations could very often have been avoided with a much smaller investment in preventive care. (The Economist)

    American health care: Emergency  Jul 2, 2009
    Heading for the emergency room ... With the truly poor, the free-riders turn up at emergency rooms. (The Economist)

    Uninsured health-care ranks rising in Miss.  Jul 2, 2009
    In a state the federal government already rates weak in health care, Mississippians are losing health insurance and choosing to either forego treatment or join the uninsured filling waiting rooms at subsidized clinics and emergency rooms. Renee Payne is one of those. (The Clarion-Ledger)

    Eddie and the Sham-Wow  Jul 2, 2009
    Bill Arthur wrote on Jun 27, 2009 2:16 PM:" Sorry but the tide is changing. Global warming is a hoax. The US is slow to catch on because we have used our school systems to promote Al Gore's propaganda. Don't you see--he actually won! He has increased his wealth since 2000 from 2 million to well over 100 million. I have no hatred--just a brain--I still use it, and others in the world have also had enough of this bologna. This is a money making and power grabbing scheme. Didn't you listen to the... (Cameron Observer, MO)

    Police Reports  Jul 2, 2009
    Star Community Newspapers. In The Community, With The Community, For the Community. (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)

    Teens' abuse of cough medications soaring  Jul 2, 2009
    "Unfortunately, the symptoms don't appear for 10 hours or more, and if you don't come into the emergency room in that time frame, you set yourself up for serious liver injury,'' Anderson said. The Coricidin pills also contain chlorpheniramine, an antihistamine that can cause seizures when an overdose is taken. Anderson and her colleagues combed through poison-control center reports from 1999 to 2004 and found 1,382 reports of DXM-related calls. Overall, the proportion of such calls received at... (Yahoo News -- Substance Use)

    ESCONDIDO: Sales tax falling faster than expected  Jul 2, 2009
    8 million that city officials predicted when they made emergency midyear budget cuts in January. But Joan Ryan, the city's revenue manager, said Wednesday that some other revenue might come in higher than expected for 2008-09, including the city's franchise fee from San Diego Gas ric. (North County Times)

    Guatemalan teen awaiting transplant dies  Jul 2, 2009
    A clinic sent him to the emergency room at Redmond Regional Medical Center in Rome, his uncle Salvador Sondoval said. At Redmond, Juan was in the care of cardiologist Frank Stegall and his staff. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)

    Did Michael Jackson Get His Diprivan?A nurse says the pop star demanded the risky anesthetic in his last days.  Jul 2, 2009
    Its use could have led to respiratory depression and subsequent cardiac arrest if Michael Jackson indeed used the powerful anesthetic to battle insomnia, emergency physicians say. "There's a big risk here," Dr. John Dombrowski of the American Board of Anesthesiology told "Good Morning America" on Wednesday, listing respiratory failure and the collapse of the patient's heart rate and blood pressure as possible side effects. (ABC News)

    Overuse of energy drinks worries health pros  Jul 2, 2009
    She collapsed at the finish line of one race and was rushed to an emergency room. Turns out she liked to skip breakfast in favor of drinking two or three cans of Red Bull each morning, Small says. (USA Today -- Sports)

    Interferon Alpha Can Delay Full Onset Of Type I Diabetes, Phase II Trial Suggests  Jul 2, 2009
    "Jarod is doing really well. He wears an insulin pump but he's never had to go to the emergency room. To this day, according to his doctor, his amount of insulin needed is much lower than other kids his age and weight. He plays baseball and is on the swim team and he totally has a normal life.". The research builds on Brod's earlier studies on oral interferon alpha in animals and a Phase I safety trial. (Science Daily)

    Concern over Bhutan suicide rate  Jul 2, 2009
    California in 'fiscal emergency. Jackson leaves estate to family. (BBC News -- South Asia)

    Fear and loathing in gay India  Jul 2, 2009
    ----------------- ----------------- RELATED BBC SITES. Last Updated: Tuesday, 17 May 2005, 15:28 GMT 16:28 UK. (BBC News -- South Asia)

    Britain's heatwave set to continue  Jul 2, 2009
    The highest heatwave level - Level 4 - is classed as "red emergency" ... The London Ambulance Service urged people to only call for an ambulance in a genuine emergency ... California in 'fiscal emergency. (BBC News)

    Advanced Sepsis Detection And Management System Created  Jul 1, 2009
    The clinical members were Martin; Liza Weavind, associate professor of anesthesiology; and David Maron, associate professor of medicine and emergency medicine. The informatics experts included Ed Shultz, director of information technology integration, and health system engineer Daniel Albert. (Science Daily)

    Click to read:FDA Panel Sounds Alarm On Painkiller Doses  Jul 1, 2009
    The Food and Drug Administration assembled 37 experts to recommend ways to reduce deadly overdoses with acetaminophen, which is the leading cause of liver failure in the U.S. and sends 56,000 people to the emergency room annually ... For 200 million prescriptions last year, and untold millions of over-the-counter sales, this report indicates that there were 56,000 emergency room visits associated with acetaminophen overdose ... acetaminophen, which is the leading cause of liver failure in the... (CBS News)

    KVCH speeds heart attack care  Jul 1, 2009
    ELLENSBURG STEMI is a technical medical term used to describe a type of heart attack, and Kittitas Valley Community Hospital in Ellensburg is partnering with a Yakima hospital to speed emergency services to treat it, according to a news release ... When an artery that feeds the heart is blocked, then part of the heart is not getting oxygenated blood and heart cells in that part of the heart begin to die, said Dr. Kipp Alan Young, M.D, FACEP, the emergency director at KVCH. advertisement Young... (Ellensburg Daily Record, WA)

    UPDATE WITH VIDEO: Community reels at loss of Thomas; former player in custody writeLink("vid_id=1611&file=thomasreaction.flv");  Jul 1, 2009
    the individual agrees to the disclosure; or the individuals agreement cannot be obtained due to incapacity or emergency circumstances, and a law enforcement official represents that: the information is needed to determine if someone other than the individual has committed a crime, and such information will not be used against the individual; and the need for the information is acute and without it law enforcement efforts will be adversely affected; and the covered entity determines in the... (Waterloo Courier, IO)

    Michael Jackson  Jul 1, 2009
    More Details on Emergency Treatment of the Pop Star Come to Light ... The transcript, which documents a call that Los Angeles emergency dispatchers received at 12:21 p.m. last Thursday, revealed that lay on a bed while receiving CPR from his personal physician Dr. Conrad Murray -- not on a floor or other hard surface as CPR experts suggest ... In was a point that the 9-1-1 dispatcher actually raised in his conversation with Jackson's security staff at the time of the emergency call. (ABC News)

    The Family Doctor: A Remedy for Health-Care Costs?  Jul 1, 2009
    Last-minute appointments are almost unheard of -- one reason patients with minor complaints flock to already crowded hospital emergency rooms. This medical home may sound like the "gatekeeper" model of the 1990s, a managed-care creation that was all about holding down costs. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)

    Top 11 Celebrity Pill Poppers  Jul 1, 2009
    Officials said Jackson received an injection of an hour before the emergency call. A senior law enforcement official told ABC News that was heavily addicted to OxyContin and Demerol. (ABC News)

    Thank you, LMH, for excellent care  Jul 1, 2009
    My sister and brother-in-law had read and heard good things about Lodi Memorial Hospital so they took me to the emergency room there; I was subsequently hospitalized ... Dr. Kevin Rabey, the emergency room doctor, Dr. Kuljeet Multani and Dr. M.D. Chang, hospitalists, and Dr. Gordon Fahey, surgeon, were competent, professional and attentive. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)

    Tylenol, NyQuil Face FDA Scrutiny  Jul 1, 2009
    Despite years of educational campaigns and other federal actions, acetaminophen remains the leading cause of liver failure in the U.S., sending 56,000 people to the emergency room annually, according to the FDA. There are about 200 acetaminophen-related deaths each year ... Despite years of educational campaigns and other federal actions, acetaminophen remains the leading cause of liver failure in the U.S., sending 56,000 people to the emergency room annually, according to the FDA. There are... (CBS News -- Health)

    Heart Attack Likely In Pitchman's Death  Jun 30, 2009
    Meanwhile, a frantic woman tells emergency operators she found the television pitchman cold and unresponsive on 911 tapes released by authorities in Florida. On emergency tapes released Monday, a woman said she found Mays cold to the touch after waking up. (CBS News -- US)

    University Hospital moves to send psych cases to other ERs  Jun 30, 2009
    Courtesy of University Hospital University Hospital;s psychiatric emergency department is open 24 hours a day and deals with patients who appear to be severely mentally ill ... The hospital s psychiatric emergency department is open 24 hours a day, ready to see patients who represent a substantial risk of physical harm to self or others, as allowed for by Ohio law ... As of June 29, officers will take such patients to the nearest emergency department of facilities with inpatient psychiatry... (Cincinnati Business Courier, OH)

    Op-Ed Contributor: Shifting America from sick care to genuine wellness  Jun 30, 2009
    If you re sick, you get care, whether through insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP, community health centers, emergency rooms, or charity. The problem is that this is all about patching things up after people develop serious illnesses and chronic conditions. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)

    A long day's journey into adulthood  Jun 30, 2009
    Not to mention motels, souvenirs, entrance fees, emergency toothbrushes, ice for the cooler, appalling quantities of soda and chips, daily ice cream treats and value meals at all the major fast food outlets, at every one of which we were urged to order the big-calorie version of whatever it was that we wanted. The geographic zone we explored was bounded by Detroit Lakes on the east, Yellowstone National Park on the west, Washburn on the north and darkest Kansas on the south. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)

    Your turn on Atlanta’s property-tax increase  Jun 30, 2009
    Maybe when there is an emergency at her home or office the response time will be slow enough to show her what she has done to Atlanta. professional skeptic. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Business)

    Good Samaritan killed in freak accident  Jun 30, 2009
    Emergency personnel from Leeds Fire Department, Catskill Ambulance and Cairo Ambulance responded to the scene Sunday night. To reach reporter Susan Campriello, please call (518) 943-2100, ext. (Catskill Daily Mail, NY)

    Attorney: Jackson 911 Call Was Delayed  Jun 30, 2009
    Murray "is still performing CPR while the security guard is speaking with emergency services on the phone," Alford said ... The revelation about the delay in calling for emergency workers came as Murray's attorneys tried to explain and defend the cardiologist's actions ... The doctor rode with Jackson in the ambulance and assisted emergency room doctors in trying to revive the pop star, Chernoff said. (KCRA 3, CA)

    LifeFlight lands on Hwy. 21, transports injured driver  Jun 30, 2009
    21 Monday afternoon as emergency personnel worked hard to free the 41-year-old woman from her vehicle. Walker ran off the right side of the road heading north at approximately 2:25 p.m. going down the steep embankment and crashing into a wooden utility pole. (Atmore Advance, AL)

    HealthPartners reform plan: Be more like us  Jun 30, 2009
    UnitedHealth said it has programs that promote health and better coordinate care, preventing hospitalizations and other more costly health emergencies in the long run. On Tuesday, UnitedHealth is slated to release a new report on how technology and other process changes can save the U.S. health care system billions of dollars. (Twin Cities Business Journal, MN)

    FDA Hopes To Reduce Painkiller Overdoses  Jun 30, 2009
    Despite years of educational campaigns and other federal actions, acetaminophen is the leading cause of liver failure in the U.S., sending 56,000 people to the emergency room annually, according to the FDA.. The agency on Monday asked its experts to consider a range of options: adding a "black box" warning label to the products, lowering the drug dosage in some products, or pulling certain types of medications off the market. (KIRO TV, WA)

    McKees Rocks mourns its pitchman  Jun 30, 2009
    In a 911 tape released yesterday, a frantic woman tells emergency operators she found Mr. Mays cold and unresponsive. "The heart disease is perfectly consistent with sudden death," Dr. Adams said. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)

    UN General Assembly slams militarycoup in Honduras  Jun 30, 2009
    UNITED NATIONS, June 29 (Xinhua) -- In an emergency meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on Monday, diplomats and regional groups came together to condemn the military coup in Honduras and called for the restoration of constitutional order. The UN General Assembly hold an urgent meeting at the UN headquarters in New York June 29, 2009, discussing the situation in Honduras, where President Manuel Zelaya was ousted by a military coup. (Xinhuanet, China)

    Pitchman Billy Mays had heart disease  Jun 30, 2009
    In a 911 tape released Monday, a frantic woman tells emergency operators she found Mays cold and unresponsive. The woman isn't identified, but police have said Deborah Mays found her husband dead. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

    What happens to your body?  Jun 30, 2009
    They can advise runners on whether a trip to the emergency room is necessary. Most common post-race complaint: headaches, usually caused by dehydration. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

    Did Jackson do too much?  Jun 30, 2009
    If pieces of the plaque break off during exercise, they could cause a heart attack or trigger sudden cardiac arrest, said Dr. Vincent Mosesso, an associate professor of emergency medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and medical director of the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association. He advises everyone to get a thorough heart check-up at about age 50, or earlier if there are risk factors such as a family history of heart disease. (MSNBC -- Health)

    LISTEN: 'He's Gone' -- Dramatic 911 Call for MaysBilly Mays dies from heart disease and not head trauma.  Jun 30, 2009
    "I cannot move him. He's all rigid," he said on the emergency recording. Mays had returned to his Florida home a day before his death after shooting a commercial. (ABC News)

    Jackson's Heart OK, Doc's Lawyer Says  Jun 30, 2009
    Paramedics were called to the mansion while the doctor was performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), according to a recording of the emergency call. Because Jackson was so frail, Murray "administered with his hand behind his back to provide the necessary support," Chernoff said. (CBS News -- Entertainment)

    Insurance plea for home-birth midwives  Jun 30, 2009
    Ms Delaile had attended the birth on her own, had not organised transport in case of an emergency and did not transfer Jasper's mother, Angel Kosch, to hospital before delivery even though she had requested it because her labour had become difficult and protracted ... "Women have said they will have no option but to freebirth, midwives have said they will work so far underground no one will ever find them, people will fail to register home births and there will be a reluctance to transfer [a... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)

    Mays had heart disease  Jun 30, 2009
    Earlier Monday, police release emergency tapes of a 911 call involving Mays. A woman says she found Mays cold to the touch after waking up. (The Palm Beach Post)

    UNPROVEN REMEDIES: Tests show many supplements have quality problems  Jun 30, 2009
    "In that FDA has limited resources to analyze the composition of food products, including dietary supplements, it focuses these resources first on public health emergencies and products that may have caused injury or illness," she wrote. More than 50,000 reports. (North County Times)

     High temperatures bring concern for health, safety  Jun 30, 2009
    "There has already been one death of a local resident and a near death incident for another, both related to drowning, within the past two weeks. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, heat-related deaths and illness are preventable yet annually many people succumb to extreme heat. Historically, from 1979-2003, excessive heat exposure caused 8,015 deaths in the United States.People suffer heat-related illness when their bodies are unable to compensate and properly cool... (Forest Scott County Times, MS)

    Teens' abuse of cough medications soaring  Jun 30, 2009
    "Unfortunately, the symptoms don't appear for 10 hours or more, and if you don't come into the emergency room in that time frame, you set yourself up for serious liver injury,'' Anderson said. The Coricidin pills also contain chlorpheniramine, an antihistamine that can cause seizures when an overdose is taken. Anderson and her colleagues combed through poison-control center reports from 1999 to 2004 and found 1,382 reports of DXM-related calls. Overall, the proportion of such calls received at... (Yahoo News -- Substance Use)

    Police Reports  Jun 30, 2009
    Star Community Newspapers. In The Community, With The Community, For the Community. (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)

    Jackson's parents waste no time seeking control  Jun 30, 2009
    The delay was partly because Jackson's room in the rented mansion didn't have a telephone and Murray didn't know Jackson's street address to give to emergency crews, Alford said. Eventually, Murray found a chef in the house and had him summon a security guard, who called for help while the doctor continued to perform CPR.. (Fresno Bee -- Nation)

    Hawaii has 1st swine flu death, of ailing patient  Jun 30, 2009
    In the past week, Valley counties have opened emergency command centers resembling those set up at forest 00003B2F fires. They have incident commanders, operations officers, logistics chiefs, supply officers. (Fresno Bee -- Nation)

    Socialized medicine takes away freedom  Jun 30, 2009
    " Moving health insurance to a government system gives us exactly that type of control, where it is lacking under a private system. Government is certainly not perfect, but at least it aspires to give the people a voice, where private insurance aspires only to profits for CEOs and shareholders.Your theory is that we will become slaves under the control of the government? You would rather us remain as slaves to corporations?Would you support moving other government functions to private control?... (Waterloo Courier, IO)

    Deadliest Air Disasters  Jun 30, 2009
    Aug. 19, 1980: Saudi Tristar makes emergency landing in Riyadh and bursts into flames. 301 dead. (KFOXTV.com, TX)

    Eddie and the Sham-Wow  Jun 30, 2009
    Bill Arthur wrote on Jun 27, 2009 2:16 PM:" Sorry but the tide is changing. Global warming is a hoax. The US is slow to catch on because we have used our school systems to promote Al Gore's propaganda. Don't you see--he actually won! He has increased his wealth since 2000 from 2 million to well over 100 million. I have no hatred--just a brain--I still use it, and others in the world have also had enough of this bologna. This is a money making and power grabbing scheme. Didn't you listen to the... (Cameron Observer, MO)

    7Tape of 911 Call Released as Michael Jackson Autopsy Under Way»  Jun 29, 2009
    The male on the 911 call told the emergency dispatch that the doctor was the only person at the scene when Jackson lost consciousness ... "Upon arriving at the hospital at approximately 1:14 p.m. a team of doctors, including emergency physicians and cardiologists, attempted to resuscitate him for a period of more than one hour, but they were unsuccessful," he said ... The emergency entrance at the UCLA Medical Center, which is near Jackson's rented home, was roped off with police tape. (Fox News)

    Health center offers programs for diabetics  Jun 29, 2009
    I came into prevention in general from working in the emergency room, she said. I saw lots and lots of people who shouldn t have been there if they had known how to take care of themselves. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)

    Heading for the emergency room  Jun 29, 2009
    With the truly poor, the free-riders turn up at emergency rooms. This is hugely inefficient, because pricey late interventions and operations could very often have been avoided with a much smaller investment in preventive care. (The Economist)

    Friends: Sanford Considered Quitting  Jun 29, 2009
    Leaving the state for 5 days with no one having a way to contact you in case of an emergency is unacceptable and warrants dismissal. Keep in mind, it was only due to the fact that he got wind of the firestorm that was brewing that he didn't stay away the full ten days. (CBS News)

    Lawyer: Jackson Had Pulse When Found  Jun 29, 2009
    Paramedics were called to the mansion while the doctor was performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), according to a recording of the emergency call ... Also, I'm a former Advanced Emergency Medical Technician). (CBS News)

    Fireworks season: Let rockets flare, not tempers  Jun 29, 2009
    Know the emergency number to call for your area, your address/location and basic first aid ... Frayedknot wrote on Jun 28, 2009 8:56 AM:" Celebrating the 4th is one thing. But having it legal to shoot off fireworks over a seven day period is just plain stupid. All we hear about is having to make cutbacks in the system, especially regarding police and fire protection, then we allow such an event as legal fireworks to last an entire week, knowing it will probably include extra man hours and... (Longview Daily News, WA)

    Jackson insisted promoter hire his cardiologist  Jun 29, 2009
    His trial was interrupted several times by hospital visits, and Jackson once even appeared late to court dressed in his pajamas after an emergency room visit. After his acquittal, Jackson s prosecutor argued against returning some items that had been seized from Neverland, the Santa Barbara County estate Jackson had converted into a children s playland. (Columbus Telegram, NE)

    Socialized medicine takes away freedom  Jun 29, 2009
    " Moving health insurance to a government system gives us exactly that type of control, where it is lacking under a private system. Government is certainly not perfect, but at least it aspires to give the people a voice, where private insurance aspires only to profits for CEOs and shareholders.Your theory is that we will become slaves under the control of the government? You would rather us remain as slaves to corporations?Would you support moving other government functions to private control?... (Waterloo Courier, IO)

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