Alexis Cordone, MD, MPH, MHS-MEd, is a board-certified emergency physician and a Public Voices Fellow of The OpEd Project.

In the frenzied medical drama, the limits and problems of the healthcare system serve as the basis for the show’s plot.

One 2020 report by the Australiasian College of Emergency Medicine (ACEM) reported that those presenting with an acute mental health condition waited in emergency departments for 11.5 hours on ...

Nitrous oxide is widely available as long as everyone pretends it’s being used for whipped cream. An industry has arisen to ...

“I appreciate the fact that the researchers looked at seven different types of brain tests, but only one of them had a mild association,” said Sherry Yafai, MD, emergency medicine physician ...

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Pennsylvania's Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Scott Martin, R-Lancaster, said the pandemic amounted to a “pause button” on improving the efficiency of the state's Medicaid program because ...

If you know someone who has diabetes, it may be worth having a conversation with them about what to do in an emergency ... the condition can occur if it malfunctions or runs out of medicine.

Dr MKO AbimbolaDiabetes is a long-term condition caused by defi­ciency in quantity or function of insulin, the chemical controlling the level of sugar in the blood. People with diabetes par­ticularly ...

Andrews says he was speaking about the "environment conditions: the cold ... noting that their emergency operation centre remains open and operations on the airport's runways have resumed.