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A Mental Health Rescue Program for improve living condition in the Refugees Camp
Beirut - In Lebanon, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has launched its first series of training workshops addressing the field of mental health. The workshops are scheduled to take place from April 2014 to April…
Water rescue, don't let your day be ruined by trouble
There's nothing better than hitting the beach on a sunny day. But don't let your day be ruined by trouble in the water.
With more people visiting the beach than ever before, our lifeguards and lifeboat crews have never been busier. We…
Diabetes, what it means for patients the new scientific advancements?
Author: Dr Zanariah Hussein (consultant endocrinologist)
(THESTAR.COM) - Overweight and obesity are defined as abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that presents a risk to health. They are major risk factors for a number of chronic…
FOAMed news: An Update on Pulmonary Embolism
As has been discussed in a previous post, patients with sub-massive PE (hypoxic, tachycardic, some troponin rise, etc…but no hypotension) remain in a grey zone, which is, to me , a dubious situation at…
How to use social media during Emergency?
"What will an emergency 2.0 resilient community look like?" is the article of Emergency 2.0 who talk over some scenarios of how a resilient community empowered with the knowledge to use social media and web 2.0 tools would recover from an…
Gimball, the flying robots useful for rescue missions
Collapsed building research, forest control during an arson, recon on a gas leak. Now firefighters and rescuer can face it with a new kind of drone, called “Gimball”. It’s a spherical flying robot created by two young…
Is Apple entering health care market with new Healtbook app for iOS8?
The rumors on next debut of Apple in health care market, runs on web from some time. Now, Chinese website Weibo has published on line the appearance of new version of iOS, the 8th of operating system that characterizes the devices with…
An italian drone to find and help people buried under avalanche
A drone to increase safety in the mountains, especially for skiers and hikers that are exposed to high avalanche risk. Department of Engineering, Electricity and Information "Guglielmo Marconi" from Bologna University make a series of…
New tiltrotor from AgustaWestland: new prespective to air rescue
A working tool versatile and reliable, to give a new dimension to air rescue: the new AgustaWestland AW609 Finmeccanica is technically a tiltrotor, able to vary the angle of the rotors from vertical to horizontal. This aircraft sum the…
How to Google Glass can help Firefighters in their job
To realize how Google Glass can improve in emergency situation, Anomaly had make a video that goes viral. It gives a useful insight into what this technology can do in real situations. “Anomalia Film” follows a firefighter,…