Assist an Ability Check. Choose one of your skill or tool proficiencies and one ally who is near enough for you to assist verbally or physically when they make an ability check. That ally has Advantage on the next ability check they make with the chosen skill or tool. This benefit expires if the ally doesn’t use it before the start of your next turn. The DM has final say on whether your assistance is possible.
My question is how this effects first aid. Do we need to proficient in Medicine skill in order to stabilize a character?
No, you don't. The rules for using the Help action in this way do not mention proficiency, only the rules for using it to assist someone else's ability check.
(Note that in the 2014 rules, making a Medicine check to stabilize someone isn't even a Help action at all, it's just an unnamed action.)
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With the new rules, do I have to be proficient in a skill or tool to be able to help in that particular context?
Yes, you need to be proficient in the check you're assisting with: https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dnd/free-rules/rules-glossary#HelpAction
My question is how this effects first aid. Do we need to be proficient in Medicine skill in order to stabilize a character?
No, you don't. The rules for using the Help action in this way do not mention proficiency, only the rules for using it to assist someone else's ability check.
(Note that in the 2014 rules, making a Medicine check to stabilize someone isn't even a Help action at all, it's just an unnamed action.)