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Cardiovascular health spending has tripled, but death rates are rising in major Hampton Roads cities

  • WHRO

By Yiqing Wang/WHRO Cardiovascular care has become more advanced over the past two decades, giving doctors new ways to prevent deaths from heart attacks, strokes and other conditions. But a new national study found those advances have come with rapidly rising costs while improvements in cardiovascular death rates have largely stalled. The analysis, published in the Journal […]

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‘I have no reason to quit’: South Dakota EMTs still lending a hand in their 80s

  • Meghan O'Brien

When he first earned his emergency medical technician certification almost three decades ago, Gerald Frame didn’t expect to still be a volunteer EMT at age 83. He’s also still running an auto mechanic shop. “Who knew?” he said. “That’s my life. My world is pretty small — it’s the ambulance and it’s the customers that […]