With the continuing controversy over the skyrocketing price of the life-saving EpiPen device, one local EMS developed their own Epi Kit as a cost-saving yet effective alternative. King County EMS ...

HARTWELL, Ga. - If parents are angry about paying as much as $600 for their children's EpiPen allergy shots, emergency service departments across the country are paying even more. Some are forking ...

Public organizations end up losing hundreds of thousands of dollars every year on expired EpiPens. That's a lot of taxpayer dollars going to waste in an already tight budget. When the cost of the ...

Emergency Medical Services agencies across the country are having to come up with alternatives to costly EpiPens in order to save lives when someone is having an allergic reaction. Parents have ...

The Tyler Fire Department recently expanded its Emergency Medical Services (EMS) capabilities to improve treatment to citizens in Tyler. The department has made many changes to their EMS bags and ...

MIDDLETOWN — Students enrolled in the emergency medical technician course at Middlesex Community College are among the first in the state to learn how to administer intramuscular epinephrine by ...

Update: Since this story was published Aug. 28, 2016, New York state Department of Health has made Check & Inject part of the standard of care for emergency responders. EMTs with the appropriate ...

The continual rise in cost for EpiPen auto-injectors has emergency crews in New York State, as well as others, abandoning the well-known anaphylaxis intervention for other, lower cost options called ...

Mylan’s EpiPen faces scant competition in the epinephrine auto-injector market. But something else is turning some patients away from the med: the company’s prices. Emergency medical responders and ...