Rob Pietro pulls the stick into his lap and lifts the big Sikorsky helicopter off the roof. The sun blinks like a strobe light through the spinning blades as Pietro, 42, follows a route he knows well, ...

Helicopters in Emergency Medical Services (EMS) are essential tools for helping hospitals overcome distance and terrain for rural patients and traffic congestion in dense, urban neighborhoods. Even if ...

In much of the country, a single helicopter ride to a hospital can leave patients facing medical bills totaling tens of ...

There is nothing unusual about an object landing at the Inverness Golf Club. But those objects are usually much smaller and rounder. A helicopter from the University of Chicago Aeromedical Network ...

WASHINGTON — Three years ago, the National Transportation Safety Board recommended warning systems be installed on emergency medical helicopters to prevent crashes. Since then, accidents have killed ...

ANDALUSIA, Ill. — Before guests hit the slopes this winter, the Snowstar ski resort rescue team got some training from the skies. Medforce Air, a nonprofit helicopter EMS team operating out of West ...