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FROM NPR SHOTS - Surely I'm not the only person who has gone to the orthopedist figuring that the radiologist sent over the MRI, only to find out that I was supposed to have asked for a CD and a paper copy of the report. Really? That is so…

Court hears that South Yorkshire ambulance officer failed to properly assess the situation when the crush happened. Some of the 96 people who died in the Hillsborough disaster in 1989 could have been saved if the ambulance service had…

Kathmandu (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Dhulikhel Hospital of Kathmandu University are jointly organizing three emergency-room trauma courses this year, the first of which will take place in Dhulikhel,…

HIV is evolving to become less deadly and less infectious, according to a major scientific study. The team at the University of Oxford shows the virus is being "watered down" as it adapts to our immune systems. It said it was taking longer…

US President Barack Obama has renewed calls for Congress to approve $6bn (£3.8bn) in emergency aid to fight the deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The president made the plea on a visit to the National Institutes of Health, where he…

The American Heart Association (AHA) is having its annual Scientific Session and some of the information below is taken from presentations made there. First, some initial information. A cardiac arrest is not the same as a heart attack A…

New Penn Medicine research has found that elevated levels in the blood of the brain-enriched protein calpain-cleaved αII-spectrin N-terminal fragment, known as SNTF, shortly after sports-related concussion can predict the severity of…

New rapid response tactics are needed to defeat the Ebola virus in Liberia, according to the charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). More than 6,600 people have been infected in the country, but figures suggest the number of new infections…

An appeal to help people affected by the Ebola crisis in West Africa has raised more than £10m in its first five days, organisers have said. The Disasters Emergency Committee said the "milestone" was reached after the UK government matched…

The end of an Ebola virus disease outbreak in a country can be declared once 42 days have passed and no new cases have been detected The Ebola virus was introduced into Nigeria on 20 July 2014 when an infected Liberian man arrived by…