The Emergency Medical Retrieval Service (EMRS) originally operated in the Hebrides and down the west coast.

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"The Emergency Medical Retrieval Service essentially brings the emergency department and the intensive care unit to the patient by helicopter or plane, " he added.

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The World Wide Web, the leading information retrieval service of the Internet, now permits millions of American voters to access data about issues and candidates, allows politicians to create their own web pages for further dissemination of information, offers information on campaign contributions, and even includes "push technology, " whereby Internet users can customize the type of information they receive from Web sources.

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