Health

The Evaluation of Time Performance in the Emergency Response Center to Provide Pre-Hospital Emergency Services in Kermanshah Read the original study on the Global Journal of Health Science This study evaluated the time performance in the…

Article By Tulip Mazumdar Global health reporter The medical charity Medicines Sans Frontieres has opened its first Ebola treatment centre specialising in care for infected pregnant women. MSF says the death rate for expectant mothers is…

KwaZulu Natal Emergency Medical Services (KZN EMS) is one of the three core functions within the Department of Health, which aims to provide a quality, efficient, professional and caring emergency medical and rescue service throughout the…

Australians will soon pay more to visit a doctor under discreet changes to the public healthcare system. The Medicare changes, which will take effect from 19 January, could save the government billions of dollars. People will pay an extra…

Article by Murthy T. and Hooda B. from the Indian Journal of Anaesthesia The guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) have been in place for decades; but despite their international scope and periodic updates, there has been…

Every second counts in an emergency. Especially when the patient needs respiratory support, a quick reaction can save lives.  A completely new look at state-of-the-art ventilation comes with MEDUMAT Standard², the advanced development of…

Today in #FOAMED we share with you the AHA Clinical Perspective published on December, 2012, about Chest Compression compared with Standard CPR. Medical community are waiting the official release of the 2015 AHA / ILCOR CoSTR Resuscitation…

Two promising Ebola vaccines will soon be tried on the frontline of the epidemic in West Africa, the World Health Organization has announced. Trials in limited numbers of volunteers suggest the vaccines are safe and can generate an immune…

A&E waits in England are at their worst level for a decade with the four-hour target now being missed - as it is elsewhere in the UK. Pressures have become so great that a number of hospitals have had to declare major incidents, calling…

Suicide is not the option for matrics who have failed; help is at hand. With the matric results set to be released next week, Head of the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health Dr Sibongile Zungu has appealed to matric pupils who have failed…