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Do you know the weirdest facts about the ambulances? Emergency Live reveals you exciting stories about relief around the world. Funny things on people and rescue actions.
A 30-Year Journey trough the Evolution and Future of ACC/AHA Clinical Practice Guidelines
2014 is the 30th anniversary of the first publication of an American College of Cardiology (ACC) and American Heart Association (AHA) clinical practice guideline (CPG). This joint effort was undertaken in response to the US government’s…
Background Checks for Volunteers should be required or not?
When a disaster occurs, there is a team of trained volunteers that is ready to be in the first line of defence and help the community with everything from search and rescue to basic first aid.
To get the ID badge, the helmet, the vest…
The first HIV self-testing kit is on sale in UK
BioSure HIV Self Test is the first legally approved and CE marked HIV self-testing kit that has just gone on sale in UK.
This kit will allow people testing themselves when and where they like, with a 99.7% accuracy rate.
According to…
Managing debris: a video tutorial and the Japan Experience
All natural disasters – whether they involve earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, landslides or other natural hazards – result in disaster debris. Increasingly, the management of debris generated by natural disasters is becoming a major…
Temporal Trends in the Incidence and Prognosis of Aortic Stenosis
Temporal Trends in the Incidence and Prognosis of Aortic Stenosis
A Nationwide Study of the Swedish Population
The aging of Western populations is expected to result in increasing occurrence of aortic stenosis (AS), but data are limited.…
Coping with Traumatic Events - American Sign Language
Physicial and emotional reactions often occur as a result of a natural emergency or traumatic event such as a terrorist attack. These reaction can happen immediatly or weeks or months after an event. Traumatic events are marked by a sense…
Russian Health Care has become inaccessible for a large part of the population
THE MOSCOW TIMES - Changes to the Russian national health care system have proceeded according to an obscure logic and led to very mixed results for medical personnel — and sometimes to lethal results for patients.
The authorities wanted…
Tornado Sirens StormAware, how does it works?
Some tornadoes strike rapidly, without time for a tornado warning, and sometimes without a thunderstorm in the vicinity. But if there's a warning, like the Missouri StormAware sirens, it is important to know what to do.
Tornadoes cause…
National Volunteer week: the video tribute by Farooq Muhammad
A volunteer action is like a stone thrown in a lake: its effect has a direct impact. At the same time, like ripples, volunteer efforts reach out far and wide to improve communities. Undeniably, volunteers rock. National Volunteer Week is a…
They call it 'road rage' and it is one of the main causes of road accidents
They call it 'road rage' and it refers to that part of us that flies into a rage against any motorised vehicle, something that goads us irrationally to furious reactions, visible manifestations of panic and tension. Available statistics…