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A volunteer firefighter from Mississippi whose face was burned off during a fire in September 2001 has received a full face transplant, with the medical community describing the successful operation as an historic event.

Ambulance services may now be availed by customers of KonsultaMD with the recent partnership between the healthcare hotline and Lifeline Ambulance Rescue, Inc., the first and only dedicated “Emergency Quick Response (EQR)” service in the…

How to deal with PTSD after a terroristic attack? That is a common situation after which a Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder can occur.

Paris, 28 October 2015 – Major risks are one of the five major topics of the 19th edition of Milipol Paris. Ever since 2009 a distinctive area at the heart of the exhibition is dedicated to this particularly sensitive issue of Internal…

Islamabad/Kabul/Geneva (ICRC-IFRC) – Afghan and Pakistan Red Crescent Societies are helping people affected by Monday's M7.5 earthquake whose epicentre was in Jerm district in the Afghan province of Badakhshan close to the border with…

Viet Nam Red Cross Society celebrates International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction and launches the World Disasters Report 2015 By Ly Nguyen, IFRC It was a Tuesday morning. Normally Truong Thanh Truat, from the Hoang Tin commune in Hoang…

The International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) had published a new release of the Guidelines for Cardiopolmunary Resuscitation (CPR) and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC). The 2015 Guidelines for AHA and ERC are fully…

Three medics who scaled a roller-coaster to save the life of Alton Towers crash victim Leah Washington have won an award for their bravery Army doctor Major David Cooper, 34, and aircrew paramedic Tom Waters, 27, were on duty with…

The Resuscitation Journal published on September an Open Access article to summarise the evidence from randomized controlled trials of mechanical chest compression devices used during resuscitation after out of hospital cardiac arrest. 

TACLOBAN, 8 September 2015 (IRIN) - “Before Haiyan, all we had on Grindr was mehhhh – four or five people. After Haiyan, boom – white men!” Jericho*, 28, finds it hard to recall much of a social scene in Tacloban before Typhoon Haiyan. A…