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RELIEFWEB.INT - Source: Amnesty International Country: Burundi Even where children were present during demonstrations, police still failed to exercise restraint, and used tear gas and live ammunition. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY On 26 April 2015,…

Source: UN Children's Fund Country: Syrian Arab Republic To address the crisis, and despite the ongoing violence, UNICEF has trebled the scale of its water-trucking services from 800,000 to 2.5 million litres a day, the largest…

Source: International Committee of the Red Cross Country: Jordan, Syrian Arab Republic With no letup in the crisis, people continue to seek safety by crossing from Syria to Jordan. The majority enter Jordan through the…

RELIEFWEB.INT - Source: IRIN Country: World By Jessica Alexander GENEVA, 20 July 2015 (IRIN) - International aid agencies have historically been criticized for failing to seek the views of those they are trying to help, providing them…

Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees Country: Haiti, Indonesia, Philippines, World Humanitarian workers are increasingly turning to ‘medium-low’ or ‘low-tech’ solutions as some of the infrastructure that is needed to…

MASSA AIRPORT, ITALY - HEMS Congress has been the most important meeting about air ambulance rescue of the Italian market. With more than 250 professionals, 50 discussants, 42 relators and the most important companies about helicopters and…

READ ON MEDEST118 - New evidences aroused in treatment of ischemic stroke from early 2015. Large and well conducted trials demonstrated the benefit of endovascular therapy (in association with thrombolysis) on primary clinical endpoints.…

The routine practice of giving oxygen to patients having heart attacks has been linked to increased heart damage and a greater risk of repeat attacks in a landmark study by Melbourne researchers. Researchers say the findings, presented…

Severe Storms and Flooding, Wildfires & Other Disasters On Wednesday, powerful storms will again target the Midwest and Plains with damaging winds, large hail and the possibility of tornadoes. Further west, a massive heat wave is…

Author: Major Andrew D. Fisher, MPAS, APA, PA-C 75th Ranger Regiment, Fort Benning for ems1.com Recently, ketamine has made resurgence in the areas of emergency and pre-hospital medicine, and for good reasons. Ketamine was first…