You're standing on the 34th floor of a skyscraper in a major city when an emergency occurs. Maybe it's an earthquake if you're in San Francisco or Tokyo, it could be a fire if you're in Chicago or Los ...

Injuries that brought a patient to the emergency room were most likely to have involved steps or stairs, according to the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System, a resource maintained by the ...

(Reuters Health) - More than 1 million Americans injure themselves on stairs each year, according to a study in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine. Older adults, younger children and women ...