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More than 1,480 defendants have been arrested on suspicion of more than $4.8 billion in healthcare fraud. An Office of Inspecter General federal agent load seized boxes from the offices of Willsand Home Health Agency, Inc., in Miami, Wednesday, May 2, 2012. Federal authorities charged more than 100 doctors, nurses and social workers in seven cities with Medicare fraud in a nationwide crackdown on unrelated scams that allegedly billed the taxpayer-funded program of $452 million. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz) View the full article

W. Va. woman slams into ambulance, flees scene. View the full article

Rush to notify patients in nearly two dozen states about tainted injections. Dr. Madeleine Biondolillo, Director of the Mass. Bureau of Healthcare Safety, answers a reporter's question regarding a meningitis outbreak linked to medicine from a Massachusetts specialty pharmacy, Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012 during a news conference in Boston. At rear left is Dr. Al DeMaria, Mass. State Epidemiologist. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) View the full article

The former Czech firefighter is the only man in the world to have two artificial pumps working side by side instead of a heart. View the full article

The driver and passengers all escaped injury. View the full article

He's fighting for better wages and work conditions for emergency workers. View the full article

In 2010, paramedics began cooling their cardiac arrest patients with an IV of saline chilled to near freezing. View the full article

Dump truck overturned and burst into flames. Officials inspect an Rt. 195 overpass over the New Jersey Turnpike near a wrecked and burned truck Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012, in Washington Township, N.J. One person is dead in a fiery accident that's closed a major portion of the New Jersey Turnpike in Mercer County and may be threatening an overpass. State Police Sgt. Adam Grossman says a dump truck overturned and burst into flames near Interchange 7A, killing the driver.(AP Photo/Mel Evans) View the full article

When the EMS driver activated his vehicle’s emergency lights, the woman's car came to a stop. View the full article

Police suspect the driver was either drunk or under the influence of an unknown substance. View the full article

It calls for adding EKGs to ambulances and standardized protocol in North Dakota. View the full article

All but one of those who contracted the infection had received steroid injections for back pain at a Nashville clinic. View the full article

He was treated for facial cuts. View the full article

When the big rig sank into the soft dirt and tipped over, many of the hives broke open. View the full article

Newburyport mayor confirms possible upcoming change in service. View the full article

The EMS chief said that since the alleged incident, the agency has started a “very strict” inspection schedule of medications and has ­improved packaging of the drugs. View the full article

Some 2,200 facilities will be hit with penalties averaging around $125,000 per facility. View the full article

Suspicions arose four years ago when a fire killed Catherine Novak, 41, in her home. View the full article

The fire department happened to be training a short distance from where the accident occurred, and was able to get there quickly. View the full article

Tractor-trailer driver failed to yield in Central Valley collision. Emergency personnel respond to the scene of a train derailment where authorities say at least 20 passengers suffered minor to moderate injuries when a big rig truck collided with a southbound Amtrak train in the central valley Monday, Oct. 1, 2012 in Hanford, Calif. (AP Photo/The Fresno Bee, Gary Kazanjian) View the full article

More than 8,000 children have fallen ill after eating food from school cafeterias and daycare centers. View the full article

She took a wrong turn and found herself perched on the edge of a cliff. View the full article

No charges have been filed and officials don't know how the individual may have tampered with the medications. View the full article

CareFlite crew crashes while enroute to pick up a patient. View the full article

The judge ruled that the department's most recent entrance exam was not biased against minorities and could be used. View the full article