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  • August 2008

    • Mass. Trumpets Success of Health Mandate

      Boston Globe  |  Aug 20, 08 1:55 PM CDT

      Mass. Trumpets Success of Health Mandate

      (Newser) - About 75% of Massachusetts residents who had been uninsured now have health coverage, thanks to the state’s closely watched, near-universal health care mandate, says a new report from Gov. Deval Patrick. Nearly half of the 439,000 newly insured bought private insurance, rather than taxpayer-funded plans, the Boston Globe reports. And the number of patients using emergency rooms for routine treatments has fallen significantly. More »

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      Massachusetts  • health insurance  • universal health care  • insurance  • emergency room  • Deval Patrick

  • May 2008
  • March 2008

    • Coke Can Mimic Heart Attack Symptoms

      Associated Press  |  Mar 17, 08 7:56 PM CDT

      Coke Can Mimic Heart Attack Symptoms

      (Newser) - Doctors should ask younger patients if their heart attack symptoms are really due to cocaine use, the American Heart Association said today. Coke can cause chest pain similar to a heart attack, it said, but heart medication can be fatal to cocaine users. "Not knowing what you are dealing with and giving the wrong therapies could mean death rather than benefit," said Columbia University Professor James Reiffel. More »

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      doctor  • cocaine  • heart attack  • blood pressure  • hospitals  • American Heart Association  • emergency room

  • January 2008

    • ER Waiting Times Tripled Since 1997

      Reuters  |  Jan 16, 08 4:51 PM CST

      ER Waiting Times Tripled Since 1997

      (Newser) - With emergency room visits and hospital overcrowding on the rise, waiting times have grown dangerously long—36% longer than they were in 1997. A new study in medical journal Health Affairs cites especially troubling waits for heart attack victims, with 25% waiting at least 50 minutes to see a doctor in 2004. The average heart attack patient waited 8 minutes in 1997 and 20 minutes in 2004. More »

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      health care  • heart attack  • health study  • hospitals  • emergency room

    • Minorities Denied Potent Painkillers, Study Finds

      Reuters  |  Jan 2, 08 4:14 AM CST

      Minorities Denied Potent Painkillers, Study Finds

      (Newser) - Minority patients are less likely than white patients to receive powerful painkillers in hospital emergency rooms, a new study has found. Researchers discovered that 31% of white people in pain were given opioid drugs—narcotic painkillers like morphine and codeine—while Hispanic patients got them 24% of the time and blacks 23%. Overall, prescriptions for opioids have increased 14% since 1993. More »

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      drugs  • prescription drugs  • Hispanic  • painkiller  • minorities  • emergency room  • opioids

  • December 2007

    • Give Rescue Workers a Break: Just Add ICE

      Houston Chronicle  |  Dec 27, 07 5:53 PM CST

      Give Rescue Workers a Break: Just Add ICE

      (Newser) - The practice of putting the letters ICE—short for "in case of emergency"—in front of a person's name in a cell phone seems to be catching on. The idea is to help paramedics or other emergency personnel zip through the phone and find the right person to call, the Houston Chronicle reports.  More »

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      cell phones  • Houston  • emergency room  • ICE

  • October 2007

    • Marathoner Who Died Was Hauled to Wrong ER

      Chicago Sun-Times  |  Oct 24, 07 11:05 PM CDT

      Marathoner Who Died Was Hauled to Wrong ER

      (Newser) - Earlier this month at the sweltering Chicago Marathon, the ambulance transporting the runner who died got lost, had to get directions from another ambulance, and eventually ended up in the wrong emergency room. The man was in full cardiac arrest when the ambulance arrived on the scene and was, according to one official, unresponsive the entire time, reports the Chicago Sun-Times . More »

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      Chicago  • hospital  • running  • emergency room  • cardiac arrest  • Chicago Marathon

  • June 2007

    • Kids Skate on Heelys to Emergency Room

      Baltimore Sun  |  Jun 7, 07 10:17 PM CDT

      Kids Skate on Heelys to Emergency Room

      (Newser) - A new craze has kids gliding across hard surfaces on tiny skate wheels built into their sneakers—but the "heelys" are deceptively unsafe, a new study says. The report claims the skate shoes sent 1,600 youngsters to the emergency room last year. More »

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      children  • doctor  • shoes  • emergency room  • sneakers  • skating  • helmets

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