Health

REUTERS - Four young women born with missing or abnormal vaginas were implanted with lab-grown versions made from their own cells, the latest success in creating replacement organs that have so far included tracheas, bladders and urethras.…

What made Josh Haner’s Pulitzer prize winning photo story of well known Boston Marathon bombing survivor Jeff Bauman so powerful? It’s that the photo story so closely and painfully evoke scenes seared into the American psyche of…

15 new ambulances (completely equipped by Spencer) have been inaugurated last 21st March in Chisinau, Moldova. The Moldova Minister of Health has consigned the first 15 vehicles of the 68 ambulances expected within the end of 2014.…

Background and Purpose - Stroke thrombolysis is highly time-critical, but data on long-term effects of small reductions in treatment delays have not been available. Our objective was to quantify patient lifetime benefits gained from faster…

A breakdown in communication or lack of effective strategies is often the reason a disaster turns into a catastrophe. Solid collaboration between each unit of the disaster preparedness community is the difference between weathering the…

Geneva (ICRC) – On the occasion of World Health Day, 7 April, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is issuing a report on "Violent incidents affecting the delivery of health care," based on a large number of recorded…

In the United States, Emergency Medical Services rescuers provide out-of-hospital treatment to patient suffering life-threating conditions such as cardiac arrest, stroke, seizure, respiratory failure and major…

The biggest medical and healthcare exhibition in the Eurasia region has opened in Istanbul at Tüyap Fair Congress and Convention Center with a big news for all the Mediterranean business company. ExpoMED has celebrated its most…

Frederick M. BURKLE, Jr. Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts and Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC. James M. LYZNICKI James J. JAMESCenter for Public Health…

For decades, human albumin has been administered to patients to provide adequate oncotic pressure and intravascular volume. However, a report indicated that the administration of albumin may be potentially harmful in critically ill…