An attack squirrel in California has put residents on alert after attacking them unprovoked. Two of the residents required immediate medical attention after sustaining serious injuries. In response to ...

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Here’s a basic truth of human life: No one plans a visit to the emergency room, and no one really wants to be there. The unexpected, oh-crap-now-I’m-in-trouble nature of the place means that everyone ...

Getting to see emergency room staff at Prime Healthcare St. Joseph Hospital in Elgin is no longer a time-guessing game when it comes to non-life-threatening issues. Thanks to FastTrackCare, an ...

Mercy Medical Center in Aurora is now allowing patients to schedule their non-life-threatening emergency room visits online, the hospital announced recently. FastTrackCare, accessible through the ...

Children who go to emergency departments in a mental health crisis and need to be hospitalized often end up stuck there for days, a new study finds. That happens in roughly one in ten of all mental ...

Daniella Gray is a Newsweek Family & Parenting Reporter based in London, U.K. Her focus is on family dynamics, childhood development, parenting styles, U.S. education and current trends in family and ...

Artificial intelligence programs can help doctors and nurses predict hours earlier which ER patients will likely require hospital admission, a new study says. An AI program trained on nearly 2 million ...

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ALBANY — Multiple New York hospitals were among the top 10 worst in the nation for the longest wait times during emergency room visits last year. Erie County Medical Center in Buffalo had the fourth ...