Health

WERNERSVILLE, Pennsylvania. – During the early hours of Saturday morning, a drunken man fromWernersville jumped out of the back of an ambulance in the Upper Macungie district. Michael Fair was being taken by Kutztown EMS from Kutztown…

A first-person account of a beach rescue. The US edition of the Wall Street Journal tells the story of two NYC Lifeguards dealing with an unconscious male swimmer face down in the water. One of the lifeguards was only 17 years old and new…

A tragic accident involving a tourist bus in Malaysia has caused 37 deaths. The disaster brings back memories of the dreadful crash in Monteforte Irpino in July this year, which it resembles in terms of the number of victims and the…

41-year-old Vanessa Tanasio from Narre Wallen, a Melbourne suburb, was brought back to life after a cardiac arrest lasting 42 minutes. This was an intervention that seemed miraculous but was in fact the result of the correct management of a…

The alarm rings at 2.30am and the firefighters at Station 39 Fire Department jump out of bed, scramble into their uniforms and dash to the truck that will carry them to the location of the emergency. For the on-call firefighters of the…

A normal working day at Wakefield’s Yorkshire Ambulance Service, in the UK, with all staff carrying out their usual duties, while BBC television cameras spied on them for the television series "Helicopter Heroes", a documentary on…

An exercise involving pilots of the HMS Search and Rescue turned into a real rescue operation. On a two-day training exercise in the picturesque Cowal Peninsula in the Scottish Highlands, the crew were accompanied by photographers from the…

"Ambulancias" were born of military necessity in Spain around 1400 and were the first health teams to follow combatants. They stayed as such until the end of the 18th century, evolving across the centuries thanks to the drive of people like…

This is the first time that the Hangzhou Emergency Medical Center has hosted this prestigious competition involving top Chinese ambulance drivers. 84 candidates and 28 national teams took part in the event, which was organised by the…

The Hangzhou Emergency Medical Center was originally called the Hangzhou Medical Care Station and is located in the Eastern coastal province of the People’s Republic of China. It provides the citizens of Hangzhou with pre-hospital…