Ambulances were used as long ago as the eleventh and twelfth centuries, when men wounded in battle during the Crusades were carried by horse-drawn wagons behind the front lines for treatment. A similar system was used in 1487 by the Spanish forces...

An ambulance is a vehicle for transporting sick or injured people,[1] to, from or between places of treatment for an illness or injury. The term ambulance is used to describe a vehicle used to bring medical care to patients outside of the hospital and...

A pregnant woman miscarried in western Japan on Wednesday after nine hospitals refused to admit her and the ambulance transporting her crashed on its way to a tenth, news reports said.The incident triggered an immediate outcry in Japan, where the government has promised to improve...

The ambulance crew who picked up a dying runner during the Chicago Marathon apparently got lost on the way to a hospital, authorities said.Chad Schieber collapsed while running the Oct. 7 race, and was about six blocks away from the University of Illinois at Chicago...

Mike Becker works long days as a welder at a natural gas field so remote that the only light at night comes from scattered drilling rigs that operate 24 hours a day.Becker used to worry about what would happen if he was injured. The nearest...

A pregnant woman miscarried in western Japan on Wednesday after nine hospitals refused to admit her and the ambulance crashed on its way to the 10th, news reports said.The incident triggered an immediate outcry in Japan, where the government has promised to improve medical care...