Health

UTTAR PRADESH - Good news for the 102 ambulance service. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav flagged off 300 ambulances exclusively for mothers and infants. In the first phase of the scheme, 800 ambulances were flagged off in…

(The Spectator - Mary Wakefield) - Tom leant back against the bathroom wall, his face streaked with blood from the nosebleed, eyes half shut like an owl. ‘I’m passing out,’ he said. Then his legs gave way and he slumped to the floor. ‘Tom?…

 GAZA CITY, July 17, 2014 (AFP) - Israel and Hamas have agreed to a UN request to briefly halt hostilities Thursday on humanitarian grounds, after an Israeli strike killed four Palestinian children on a beach, while efforts intensify to…

TOKYO, JAPAN -- (Marketwired) -- Masimo announced that a new clinical study published in the Journal of Clinical Monitoring evaluated the relative trending accuracy of Masimo's noninvasive and continuous total hemoglobin (SpHb®) in…

The World Health Organization (WHO) continues to closely monitor the evolving Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. The current epidemic trend in Sierra Leone and Liberia remains serious, with high numbers…

Three people died and dozens were injured after a train derailed in the Moscow metro during rush hour today. Television footage showed rescue workers carrying the injured away on stretchers, while paramedics treated some on nearby grass…

(DAILY MAIL - EVE MCGOWAN) - More patients with potentially fatal heart conditions can now have internal defibrillators due to new guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). Nearly 6,000 patients with…

THE PHILIPPINES - Intermittent heavy rains that started in early June caused flooding in low-lying areas of Maguindanao province, which declared a state of calamity. The Regional, Provincial and Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and…

Benedict “Dinky” de Borja has been a volunteer Firefighter + Medic for the Pateros Filipino-Chinese Volunteer Fire and Rescue Brigade for the last 5 years. He helps Dr. Sixto Carlos on topics such as Emergency and Disaster Preparedness, as…

EBEM Commentators Angela Hua, MD Kaushal H. Shah, MD Department of Emergency Medicine Mount Sinai Medical Center New York, NY Noninvasive ventilation in chest trauma patients may reduce the requirement for intubation and may reduce…