In-Hospital Defibrillation Takes “Too Long”

From the Wall Street Journal
American hospitals frequently take too long to restart stopped hearts after cardiac arrest, a new study found.
About half a million patients suffer cardiac arrest inside a U.S. hospital each year. Less than a third survive. In many cases, a medical device called a defibrillator can restart a stopped heart by delivering [...]

Study: Race and Narcotics in the ER

From CNN.com
Emergency room doctors are prescribing strong narcotics more often to patients who complain of pain, but minorities are less likely to get them than whites, a new study finds. 
Even for the severe pain of kidney stones, minorities were prescribed narcotics such as oxycodone and morphine less frequently than whites. 
The analysis of more than 150,000 [...]