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Each year in the United States, a few isolated cases of plague are reported. This year, possibly because of increased spring rains leading to an increase in the rodent population, an unprecedented 13 cases of plagues have occurred in 4 states (New Mexico, California, Colorado, and Texas).
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While our nations' emergency physicians were considerate enough to hold their annual scientific assembly in weather-ravaged New Orleans, the courts in the Bayou dealt the house of medicine its version of a tsunami and trailing hurricane ...
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Knowledge of the requirements of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) is lacking in the emergency department (ED), according to a recent study.
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A 49-year-old woman waits for two hours at Vista Medical Center in Waukegan, IL's ED after reporting chest pain, shortness of breath, and nausea to the triage nurse.
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In tandem with the movement toward electronic medical records, electronic prescribing has gained momentum, most notably with the mandate found in the Medicare Modernization Act to adopt standards by 2008.
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Five years after 9/11 and the anthrax attacks that followed, stakeholders in public health, medicine, and private industry are forging a partnership that anticipates the next generation of deadly challenges to the nation's biodefense.
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In an unusual personal aside at a strategic planning meeting, Michael Leavitt, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently recalled a harrowing night when it appeared for a few hours that a bioterrorism attack was underway at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
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A draft federal plan for development and acquisition of medical countermeasures against chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) threats includes the following overarching principles:
