April 2014

(GUARDIAN) - All 338 high school students and teachers on board a South Korean passenger ferry that began sinking on Wednesday have been rescued, according to reports. The ferry, identified as the Sewol, was carrying about 470 passengers,…

Virtually no one feels it is dangerous to drive a few km/h faster than the maximum speed limit. However, even this "slight" speeding kills and injures hundreds of people every year. And we tend to ignore the many lives of people close to us…

The Fire and Rescue Department had to be called in to help transfer an overweight patient from the Banting Hospital to the Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Hospital in Klang, reported Berita Harian. According to the daily, the 200kg patient, Norfaizah…

(NEW STRAITS TIMES) - It is estimated that every year, 35 million people die from chronic life-threatening illnesses. Of these, less than 8% have access to palliative care, termed as a holistic form of care for a patient’s…

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…

As has been discussed in a previous post, patients with sub-massive PE (hypoxic, tachycardic, some troponin rise, etc…but no hypotension) remain in a grey zone, which is, to me , a dubious situation at…

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.…

COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS - A Texas A&M veterinary professor is very fortunate to have escaped serious injury or even death when a cement truck tipped on its side and slammed into the professor's car. And Dr. Guan Zhu, believe it or not,…

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…