As part of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Week from May 20-26, stroke survivors from King County will share their stories about how quick recognition of stroke symptoms and timely response and … [Read more...]

St John's, NZ ambulance operations director supports standardized names for EMS workers to crack down on "cowboy" paramedics. [Read the whole story here.] … [Read more...]

A Sedgwick County, Kansas ambulance crew is in the hospital after a driver ran a red light and struck their vehicle with enough force to turn it on its side. [Read the whole story here] … [Read more...]

On hostile scenes, EMT trained police officers could render life saving aid until medical help can be reached. To that end, Gig Harbor paramedics have been training local police officers in basic EMT … [Read more...]

A Colorado Springs fire chief is opening up his fire stations as free community clinics. [Read the whole story at EMS1] … [Read more...]

The FDA and government officials from around the country are paying close attention to Chicago's policy of putting Narcan in the hands of drug abusers and their loved ones. [Read the whole story at … [Read more...]

DC Metro officials are looking into the maintenance and upkeep of their AED's after one of their Automated External Defibrillators failed to work on Monday while a Metro rider lay in cardiac arrest. … [Read more...]

Friday, in Suffolk Superior Court, a former EMT instructor pleaded guilty to allowing multiple EMT's, police officers, and firefighters, to sign attendance sheets for required training, even though … [Read more...]

Named after the historic Freedom House in Pittsburgh, "a program to train unemployed and underemployed black men and women as medical technicians" started in 1967, a former St. Paul firehouse is now … [Read more...]

Taking EMS turf wars to extremes, two San Juan paramedics are accused of walking in to a restaurant and shooting a paramedic from a rival ambulance service. The female paramedic victim is the wife of … [Read more...]