A sobering report released earlier this month by a blue-ribbon panel of emergency physicians concludes the country's emergency care system is in serious condition and under more stress than ever before. ...more

December 26, 2008

Bacteria can cause potentially fatal infections that can spread along the bloodstream and attack organs such the lungs or bladder. With bacteria increasingly showing resistance to standard antibiotic drugs, this is a growing, if somewhat under-reported, human health risk. ...more

November 19, 2008

The average time that hospital emergency rooms patients wait to see a doctor has grown from about 38 minutes to almost an hour over the past decade, according to new federal statistics released Wednesday. ...more

August 6, 2008

and even deadly - for our animal companions. ...more

December 14, 2007