Rural Emergency Care Needs Transfusion

From JEMS.com
Rural ambulance services in Oklahoma are dying, leaving thousands of rural Oklahomans stranded without quick and dependable emergency medical care.
“It is a crisis,” said R. Shawn Rogers, Emergency Medical Services division director for the Oklahoma State Department of Health. “All across the state, we’ve got a very dicey situation.”
Since 2000, about 50 rural ambulance services [...]

Why the Flu Vaccine Fizzled

From the NY Times
Anyone who dutifully got a flu vaccination this year only to come down with a serious fever, chills or cough had plenty of company. An analysis issued last week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that this year’s vaccine formulation was only 44 percent effective. That feeble performance, along [...]