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News from Medical World Americas
Hours: 8:30am - 5:00pm
Your update for day two of MEDICAL WORLD AMERICAS includes important updates and information on the conference program, exposition highlights, special events and answers to frequently asked questions.…
A rescue of a trainee pilot injured in light aircraft crash
KOTA BARU: A single-engine light aircraft crash landed in an open space at a densely-populated residential area, near here, causing its 20-year-old pilot to suffer head and leg injuries. Firemen took 15 minutes to pull M. Shankar out of the…
Crash: the surveillance video of UNMH rooftop helicopter accident
Surveillance video of UNMH rooftop helicopter crash
On April 9, 2014, about 1745 mountain daylight time, an Airbus (Eurocopter) AS 350 B3 helicopter, N395P, impacted the hospital roof top following departure from the UNM hospital…
Two tornadoes kill 12 people in Arkansas
(CNN/AP) - 12 people were killed Sunday by two separate tornadoes spawned by a powerful storm system that moved through the central and southern United States.
The Arkansas Department of Emergency Management confirmed late Sunday that…
Yosemite Search and Rescue save an hiker from a 30 foot fall on a rock
(CALIFORNIA) - A rescue effort by Yosemite SAR brought Blake Parkinson to the hospital where could tell the dramatic event.
Parkinson, 26, had landed on a five-foot outcropping, slamming his back into the rock just as his safety line went…
Malaysia: Family of three killed in crash
A couple and their eight-month-old baby girl perished in an accident along Jalan Haji Abdul Manan, near Meru, here. According to police, the 9.20pm incident on Sunday happened when the family’s car, a Proton Satria, was speeding along…
UN agency pleads for help in Central African Republic
GENEVA, April 16 (Reuters) – Inter-communal violence is tearing Central African Republic apart but the conflict is not getting the attention, or aid, needed to save hunge numbers of lives, the head of the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR)…
Nine Nepali guides killed in Everest avalanche
An avalanche swept down a slope of Mount Everest on Friday, killing nine Nepali mountaineering guides at the beginning of the main climbing season, a tourism ministry official said.
The avalanche hit the most popular route to the mountain's…
South Korea Ferry Incident, air into submerged ship for survivors
S. Korea Ferry Incident: Divers pumping air into submerged ship
(SOUTH KOREA - AP) - Coast guard officials say divers have begun pumping air into a submerged South Korean ship 48 hours after it listed and sank. But it wasn't immediately…
Dengue's outbreak at Australian detention center
SYDNEY (Reuters) - An outbreak of dengue fever at an Australian refugee detention centre in the tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru sparked calls on Thursday for greater oversight at the facility, which has been criticised by rights groups…