August 2014

CHARLES BOMBARDIER on The Globe and Mail Our Prototypes column introduces new vehicle concepts and presents visuals from designers who illustrate the ideas. Some of them will be extensions of existing concepts, others will be new, some will…

Kinshasa, 26 August 2014 - Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has launched a response to the confirmed Ebola viral hemorrhagic fever outbreak in Equateur Province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

The combined pill contains oestrogen and, as it is known oestrogen can stimulate breast cancer cells to grow, the potential for extra oestrogen to increase the risk of breast cancer has been recognised for some time. However, any increase…

A new challenge, a new donation match run through Facebook. It's the Bunker Drill Challenge, created for aim the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation. The ideas come from Leatherhead Mafia, in order to remember the America's fallen fire…

Accidental hypothermia with or without circulatory arrest: the experience from the Danish Præstø Fjord boating accident in 2011.

UNOCHA - 2014 has seen a major surge in humanitarian crises around the world. Inter-agency strategic response and regional response plans now target over 76 million people in thirty-one countries compared to 52 million in December 2013. 102…

At least 10 people have been killed in a stampede at a Hindu festival in central India, local officials say. Rope barriers set up to contain thousands of Hindu pilgrims during parikrama of Kamadgiri hill gave way on Monday morning,…

(SKY) - A massive clean-up operation is underway after a powerful earthquake rocked California's scenic Napa Valley wine country, leaving more than 130 injured. The 6.0-magnitude quake struck early on Sunday morning - the strongest tremor…

P. Bennett,Bristol Doctoral Clinical Psychology Training Programme, Universities of Plymouth and Exeter, UK Y Williams, Welsh Ambulance Trust, UK N Page, Department of Psychology, Cardiff University, UK K Hood,Department of General…

This study shows that using a logistic regression analysis makes it possible to find a correlation between response time and the severeness of injury. The monetary values for ambulance emergency services were calculated for two different…