July 2014

When you’re a doctor who has to get kids to snooze through an operation you need a few skills. You need a repertoire of kids’ songs and a few stories to make having a mask hover over your face seem vaguely logical. You need to be able to…

The death toll from Typhoon "Glenda" climbed to 54 after more fatalities were reported in Calabarzon, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said Friday. A total of 167,293 families and 882.326 persons were…

REUTERS, July 18, 2014 - Rescue workers have recovered the second flight recorder from the Malaysia Airlines MH17 jetliner which was shot down yesterday night while flying over Ukraine, Reuters said. Pro-Russian separatists in the region…

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…

GAZA CITY (AL JAZEERA) - Ibrahim Abuelkas is eight hours into his 24-hour shift, and every minute is filled with new risks. Suddenly, the 35-year-old gets a signal from his colleague Saed Zaineddin — the emergency phone call operator — and…

(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…

MANILA - As of 16 July, Typhoon Rammasun (known locally as Glenda) has affected an estimated 93,860 families (450,690 people) in four regions (IV-A, IV-B, V and VIII), based on initial reports by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and…

Surviving cardiac arrest depends on early cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Only one third of cardiac arrest victims receive prompt CPR in spite of well-attended Basic Life Support (BLS) courses. Our study aimed to investigate that how…

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…