Airplanes carry basic medical kits with some advanced medications requiring a medical professional to dispense, along with equipment like AEDs and oxygen. The decision to divert a flight during a ...

Some medical emergencies are obvious. Profuse bleeding from a stab wound or severe crushing chest pain, for example. Other medical emergencies have far more subtle symptoms that might seem minor. A ...

For Dr. Sij Hemal, it was a flight he’ll never forget. It was December 2017. Hemal, then a 27-year-old second year medical resident, was returning home to the US from India, where he’d been ...

Colleen Dolan never imagined that a medical emergency would ruin her recent vacation in Greece. But while she was touring the Petrified Forest of Lesvos, she fell and broke her ankle and both wrists. ...

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Medical professionals at urgent care centers and hospital emergency rooms give people immediate medical attention. Understanding the services each offers may save people time and money if they are ...

Holiday heart attacks. It’s a sobering statistic during what should be a joyful season. More cardiac deaths occur in the U.S.