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Police Wednesday searched the Houston office of Michael Jackson's last doctor, the Drug Enforcement Administration confirmed. CNN reported the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and Los Angeles police executed a search warrant at the office of Dr. Conrad Murray, who was with Jackson when the singer collapsed and died June 25. An autopsy indicated Jackson had the powerful drug Propofol in his system, E! News reported, although the official cause of death is still under investigation. The...

A British judge sentenced a 76-year-old man to jail for calling for an ambulance more than 40 times to complain about a sore throat. Walter Emms, 76, of Firmley, Surrey, was given six months in custody this week after pleading guilty to two counts of causing a public nuisance and violating conditions of a suspended sentence for similar actions in a previous case. The Daily Telegraph said Wednesday the sentence capped a brief but intense war of words between Emms and ambulance dispatchers who...

A 54-year-old carpenter in Wantage, England, accidentally cut off his own penis while working with a saw, his mother says. Stuart Keen's mother, Edna, told The Sunday Telegraph her son had been cutting wood for a cabinet when the saw inflicted the horrific injury. Surgeons were able to reattach the severed appendage, she said. Stuart is a carpenter and uses sharp and sometimes dangerous tools, Keen's mother said. This was an unfortunate accident but these things happen all the time to...

American Heart Association Rapid Access Journal Report: Study highlights: Cardiac arrest patients may not be getting the best care by EMS personnel due to a number of external factors. EMS should have adequate time in the field to give high-quality CPR and other resuscitation efforts before transporting cardiac arrest patients. EMS should follow national guidelines for transporting cardiac arrest patients and determining when to end unsuccessful resuscitation efforts. DALLAS, June 30...

Local laws, insurance reimbursement and public misperceptions impede emergency medical services (EMS) workers from using best resuscitation practices, according to a study reported in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.Less than half of local EMS systems follow national guidelines on transporting cardiac arrest patients and terminating unsuccessful out-of-hospital resuscitation efforts, said researchers who conducted three small focus groups at the 2008 National Association of...

Authorities in Florida said paramedics and veterinarians rescued a 3-month-old calf that fell down a 12-foot-deep well. Marion County Fire Rescue spokeswoman Peveeta Persaud said Thomas Wesley Harrell went to feed his cows early Monday morning when he discovered the female calf had fallen down the well, the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel reported Tuesday. Daniel Jodoin, a paramedic with the Marion County Fire Rescue, was the first to be lowered into the well to examine the animal and report on the...

RA'ANANA, Israel, June 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NICE Systems Ltd. (NASDAQ: NICE), the global provider of advanced solutions that enable organizations to extract Insight from Interactions to drive performance, today announced that the British Columbia Ambulance Service (BCAS), the sole ambulance service and provider of pre-hospital emergency care in the Province of British Columbia, Canada, has selected NICE Inform and other NICE solutions to capture and manage emergency...

HOUSTON, May 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Medicine At Work, the first company to enable physician services to the workplace using advanced video telemedicine technology, has secured full-time physician staffing for its clients. All services are provided by emergency medicine and internal medicine physicians who are board-certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine or the American Board of Internal Medicine. Medicine At Work(TM) combines innovative medical instruments, telecommunications...

If you're having a heart attack, it's probably better to be a man.University of Pennsylvania researchers who studied men and women with chest pain who were treated by paramedics before arriving at the emergency department find women are significantly less likely to be cared for using standard protocols such as aspirin to thin the blood, nitroglycerin to ease chest pain, heart rhythm monitoring, or IV lines to begin medication delivery.Overall, 24 percent of women received aspirin verses 32...

A refrigerator stench at a California AT&T call center caused the building to be evacuated and seven people to be hospitalized with nausea, authorities said. The San Jose Fire Department said a hazmat team was sent to the office complex just before lunchtime Tuesday and determined the odor was coming from an office mini-fridge, the San Jose Mercury News reported Wednesday. The stink caused seven people to be hospitalized with vomiting or nausea and 21 others were treated at the scene by...