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As rural communities and aging populations confront an increase in diabetes and cardiovascular disease, a $180 billion threat looms for seniors, families, taxpayers and healthcare systems — stroke. Despite recent declines in stroke deaths,…

The Inter-Agency Standing Committee has published an interesting guidelines for volunteers and rescuers, workers in humanitarians NGOs and communities affected by armed conflict.

How the italian health system ensure the health in a big event like EXPO2015? With the best equipped regional EMS service in Italy: AREU. Know more about them More than 1 million of potential patients - from all around the world and…

Latest news from South Sudan are not good. Two nationals who have been working for the French-based medical relief organization Doctors Without Borders have been killed in the oil-rich Unity State, agency reported on August, 23th. …

Frequentis, a global leader of NG911 and command and control center solutions is announcing the release of PROTECT™ Consolidated Dispatch at the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials Annual Conference & Expo in…

Copyright 2006 by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Following the events of September 11, 2001, the threat of a bioterrorism event occurring in the United States has become a realistic concern…

RELIEFWEB.INT -July 27, 2015 at 02:31PM Source: International Committee of the Red Cross Country: World ICRC report intended to help hospitals prepare for and manage situations that could jeopardize maintaining the health of people affected…

RELIEFWEB.INT -July 27, 2015 at 10:50AM Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country: Bangladesh, China, Fiji, Indonesia, Japan, Myanmar, Thailand In Indonesia, ongoing volcanic activity of several…

The increase in the number of children who will be identified as suffering from severe acute malnutrition (SAM) under the new WHO standards means that organizations involved face a shortfall of nutrition supplies in 2015.

RELIEFWEB.INT - Source: International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies Country: Nepal The Red Cross continues to focus on providing shelter materials as well as food and essential non-food relief such as household items.…