ROCHESTER — After doctors took about a half-basketball's worth of cancerous tissue from the back of her leg, Barb Virnig knew her options were limited. The 75-year-old retired nurse couldn't dress the ...

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Seattle Fire Department paramedic Brian Wallace helped launch Covid-19 testing for first responders in March. Now the agency's mobile teams are expanding to the city’s nursing homes. What they’re ...

A coroner feared there was a "risk of future deaths" after a paramedic made no attempts to resuscitate an elderly care home resident who choked on her lunch. Kathleen Gregory died of asphyxia at ...