Dr. Andrew Jagoda of Mount Sinai is an emergency care expert specializing in heat-related illnesses.

Before you grab that morning boost of caffeine, whether it's coffee or an energy drink, doctors warn caffeine poisoning is on the rise.

The same doctor who a delivered me came to our house when I was sick and saw me through the mumps and bumps of growing up.

Dr. John J. Rogers, the emergency department medical director at Monroe County Hospital, has been named a Fellow by the American College of Emergency Physicians .

Emergency room physician Grover Hershberger has traded heart attacks for sore throats and earaches.

When patients are discharged from the emergency department, their recovery depends on carefully following the doctors' instructions for their post care at home.

"I am delighted with the addition of Dr. Edith Nemec, pathologist, and Dr. SalimAhmed, emergency medicine physician, to our medical team," said Foley, who noted the addition of Nemec and Ahmed provides a full ...

Every year, more than 115 million patients enter emergency rooms at hospitals around the nation.

Visits to an emergency room are confusing and nerve-racking events that one emergency room doctor describes as "usually the worst day of a person's life." That makes for a poor setting for good communication.

Patients from around Texas and even other states are increasingly being sent to Austin for emergency medical care, which officials at the largest hospital system in Central Texas say can put some lives at risk ...

As stroke care advances, hospitals are lining up to create centers to treat these 'brain attacks' with as much urgency as they treat trauma patients.

Hospitals are propelled by a 2004 state law that sends ambulances to stroke centers even if another hospital is closer. Florida leads the nation in the number of stroke centers because of the law, the state's large population and older demographic.

Broward County has 11, second only to Pinellas County's 12.

But not all stroke centers are the same, and it can be hard for patients to know the differences. Some hospitals don't have neurosurgeons to handle complications or bleeding strokes. Most are primary stroke centers, which offer baseline care. A few are comprehensive centers with cutting-edge treatment, but patients aren't always transferred to them.

VISITS TO an emergency room are confusing and nerve-racking events that one emergency room doctor describes as "usually the worst day of a person's life." That makes for a poor setting for good communication.

Some 10,000 residents of this municipality stand to benefit from the Baungon and Manolo Fortich Hospital Medical, Surgical and Dental Outreach Mission organized by an extraordinary group of private and sector ...

Washington - A special supplement about how to identify, evaluate and treat transient ischemic attacks , a precursor to stroke, has recently been published by the Annals of Emergency Medicine .

Even worse, not only do the patients not understand the care instructions from their doctors, but the vast majority are also unaware that they have not fully understood what the doctor has told them.

PUBLIC hospital emergency departments are seeing a smaller proportion of patients within the recommended time than they did eight years ago - and the federal Government has admitted that "much work lies ahead" ...

Physician Assistant Eric Cameron Stroud is the newest addition to the Brookings Medical Center staff.

FREMONT -- Come spring 2009, Fremont will have a new hospital in its north end. A trio of emergency room doctors and technicians -- Jerome McTague, John Wukie and Leilani LaBianco -- have joined together to ...

Hampton received his medical degree from the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed his residency in emergency medicine at St.

Today being Independence Day, here's a story of an independent-minded person. He runs Family Urgent Care, but since the care center is tucked away in the Empresa Business Center - albeit a few doors away from ...