Health

Lower may be better for kidney diseases and heart disease when treating high blood pressure, federal health officials said when announcing they were ending a major study more than a year early due to “potentially lifesaving information.”

MLIVE - A new pilot project allows people without life-threatening symptoms to receive medical care at home from paramedics in Washtenaw and Livingston counties. The program, which began Aug. 7 and is funded by Huron Valley Ambulance and…

KENDRAPARA - The ambulance service in Kendrapara district was paralysed as the drivers launched a protest against the attack on a driver at taxi stand near the court in the town on Sunday. The agitating drivers and emergency medical…

Red Cross organisations condemned on Monday an attack in Nepal by anti-government protesters who stopped an ambulances and killed an injured policeman during unrest over a proposed new constitution. 

The warning states the system is vulnerable to cybersecurity hacks that can control dosage The FDA has issued an alert, warning of cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the Symbiq Infusion pump that could allow hackers to override…

NEW YORK (AP) — Dozens of 9/11 rescue and recovery workers gathered at the World Trade Center site on Thursday to demand that Congress extend programs offering money and free health care to people exposed to toxic dust after the terror…

Homeopathy conference ends in chaos after delegates take hallucinogenic drug SOURCE: THE INDIPENDENT - An alternative medicine conference has ended in chaos in Germany after dozens of delegates took a LSD-like drug and started…

Firefighter Parvinder Singh is visiting Indian schools to teach pupils and teachers about first aid and lifesaving skills. Parvinder is one of the founding members of the Asian Fire Service Association and will be visiting two schools…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A fire happen on a plane at the McCarran Ariport of Las Vegaas. The plane's engine of a British Airways jet caught fire while the plane was preparing to take off from Las Vegas. All the passenger are safe and alive.

First Aid in Sport: medical defence/indemnity unions have made a clear unambiguous statement – pitchside doctors and physios must ‘have the appropriate recognised qualifications, training and experience for the health services they provide.…