News tagged with ambulance companies


Saving heart attack patients in the middle of the night

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

When Joyce Moss recently arrived at Loyola University Hospital with a life-threatening heart attack, it took just 42 minutes to perform an emergency balloon angioplasty.





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As Google, AT&T feud simmers, a partnership waits in the wings

Technology / Internet

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

It's not often that phone sex lines and Benedictine nuns enter into debates on telecommunications industry regulation, but AT&T Inc. and Google Inc. are making it happen.


Health policy expert says US can learn from Dutch universal healthcare coverage

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 06, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

The United States can learn from the Dutch Health Insurance System model, according to an article by Pauline V. Rosenau, Ph.D., in the December issue of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.


Computer solution to delivery problem

Technology / Other

created Oct 18, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

With the gift-giving season almost upon us and increasing concerns about the environmental effects of all those deliveries and pickups, it is timely that researchers should turn their attention to the so-called Traveling ...


Resuscitation and survival rates from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest nearly double (w/ Video)

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created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center and the Richmond Ambulance Authority have improved resuscitation and survival rates dramatically for cardiac arrest patients by training and equipping paramedics to begin lowering ...


FDA warns Web companies not to sell flavored cigs

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created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that it has warned several companies to stop selling banned flavored cigarettes to U.S. consumers online.


Study Suggests Affordable Vaccines Within Reach

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new research paper suggests that pharmaceutical companies can afford to produce less expensive vaccines for lower-income countries because the companies can recover their research and development (R&D) ...


Drug industry, nonprofits join forces to fight world's neglected diseases

Chemistry / Other

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Drug companies and nonprofit organizations are joining forces to develop new drugs and vaccines to target so-called "neglected" diseases that claim millions of lives in the developing world each year. Those hard-to-treat ...


Failing the sniff test: Researchers find new way to spot fraud

Other Sciences / Economics

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Companies that commit fraud can find innovative ways to fudge the numbers, making it hard to tell something is wrong by just looking at their financial statements. But research from North Carolina State University unveils ...


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Microbes to Take Over Ethanol Production?

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Not too long ago, it seemed that ethanol production was the wave of the future. The use of trash, wood chips or different types of plants -- usually grass or corn -- to make ethanol was considered ...


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MySpace in talks to buy imeem

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created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Online social hub MySpace is in talks to acquire struggling free music streaming site imeem, two people familiar with the matter said Tuesday.



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