When blast injuries take off legs like in Boston and every day in combat zones, the injuries can easily be fatal. It is frequently difficult if not impossible to stop the bleeding ...
By Ryan Boyle CNN ROSWELL, Ga. — The severity of the numerous injuries I sustained could have been fatal. The most severe: getting the back of my skull crushed by the impact ...
By Nomaan Merchant and Christopher Sherman The Associated Press WEST, Texas — The bodies of 12 people have been recovered from the remnants of a tiny Texas farm town that was ...
BOSTON — Medics in Boston have been speaking of the harrowing scenes at Monday’s marathon bombings and how they tried to save as many people possible. Mike Bossy, who ...
The Associated Press SANTA ANA, Calif. — The estranged husband of a woman charged with severing his penis said it was as though his life ended the evening of the attack. ...
By Marilynn Marchione The Associated Press BOSTON — The bombs that made Boston look like a combat zone have also brought battlefield medicine to their civilian victims. A ...
By Paul Armstrong CNN BOSTON — The full horror of Monday's bomb attacks in Boston was reflected in emergency rooms across the city as doctors were forced to perform ...
The Associated Press CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. —Two women who were shot by a gunman at a community college in southwest Virginia are reported to be in stable condition. A ...
State police say the bus rolled over Monday morning near Vallecitos in northern New Mexico ...
Ongoing research has refined the way we treat trauma, such as minimizing the use of spinal immobilization, reducing the amount of intravenous fluids in hypovolemia and reducing the ...
UPI WEST PARK, Fla. — A 10-year old West Park, Fla., boy is recovering after paramedics say he fell reaching for a mango in a tree and landed on spikes atop a fence. The ...
The suspect ran into the store in the East Liberty neighborhood after a fight with several men ...
The Associated Press SEATTLE — Police say a pickup truck driver crashed into four pedestrians crossing a Seattle street, killing two and critically injuring two others _ a ...
MILWAUKEE — Milwaukee Police are investigating a multi-vehicle crash that involved an ambulance early Thursday morning. The ambulance was struck while responding to a call, ...
Dalton Daily Citizen CARTERS LAKE, Ga. — An elderly man was taken to Murray Medical Center after being trapped at the bottom of a deep toilet at Carters Lake for a little ...
Daily Mail NEW YORK — A woman who was stabbed more than 100 times by an ex-boyfriend in an horrific attack that left her nearly decapitated has been given a new face thanks ...
Associated Press FORT WAYNE, Ind. — A man pulled a woman off a city bus in northern Indiana on Wednesday and fatally shot her in front of multiple witnesses before fleeing ...
By Marty Roney Montgomery Advertiser WETUMPKA, Ala. — An Elmore County Sheriff’s Office deputy shot and killed an armed, off-duty Montgomery firefighter Tuesday night ...
Associated Press ALLENTOWN, Pa. —Associated Press An elderly man who shot and killed his 83-year-old wife in an eastern Pennsylvania hospice unit Tuesday, then committed ...
By Brad Bell WJLA PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, Md. — A 70-year-old man was killed Monday in a single-vehicle crash in Prince George's County, and a 21-year veteran of the ...
