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09/27/2017 / By Michelle Simmons

Don’t wait for an ambulance if you get shot or stabbed: You are less likely to die if a friend takes you to the hospital

It is important to call for the ambulance in medical emergencies, but new research suggests that calling a friend, an Uber, or the police to take you to the hospital is better if you have been stabbed or shot, according to a report by the Science Daily. The study from the Johns Hopkins University School […]

05/19/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

Hundreds of thousands of British pounds spent by the NHS on super-sized ambulances for the obese

Super-sized ambulances are now being used to accommodate the growing number of obese patients in England. From 52,000 obesity-related admissions in 2006, the figures have ballooned to 520,000 admissions in 2016, reported BBC.com. In a report by the Telegraph.co.uk, ambulance trusts were said to have spent at least 1.3 million British Pounds on these specially-customized […]

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