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Safety is the first pillar of a good life for emergency professionals, rescuers and Fire Fighters. We are operating in a complex and hard environment. Risk prevention and improving working conditions are fundamental for better health and life.
Hands-only CPR in LEGO
The life-saving advert from British Heart Foundation about CPR has been recreated in LEGO and shows Vinnie Jones demonstrating how to perform ‘Hands-only CPR’ – hard and fast compressions in the centre of the chest to the beat of the Bee…
UE must stop migrant deaths at sea
GENEVA (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency called Thursday for urgent European action to stop rising refugee and migrant deaths at sea, after more than 260 people have died or been reported missing trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to get…
Health systems in transition: Croatia get yellow card
On 1 July 2013 Croatia became the 28th Member State of the European Union, after over three decades of political and economic transformation. In the years before accession, Croatia implemented a number of important reforms in the health…
TB: A miracle treatment is a near possibility
(Melbourne, Australia: XX AIDS Conference) - Two years after launching a first of its kind Combination Drug Study for TB treatment in 2010, the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development (TB Alliance) raised hopes of a novel drug regimen to…
10 miracle "medicines" for the rainy season
MANILA - The rainy season can threaten your immune system, therefore increasing the chances of acquiring the simplest to the most complex ailments. With the continuous escalation of the prices of the prescription drugs, finding a…
Internal heart defibrillation is now possible in U.K.
(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 Yes & No of Medical Procedures during Ramadhan
(Malaysian Medical Gazette) - The principle of fasting is that the person who is fasting is to fast in a moderate manner, neither putting himself in a severe disadvantage of health by doing anything that causes weakening of the body, nor is…
Roll Back Malaria, a new collaboration to improve access to key malaria intervention
Roll Back Malaria Partnership (RBM), together with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), has invited Ministers of Health from Southern Africa, Asia and other malaria-endemic regions, as well as the private sector to discuss…
Field and Seasonal Hospitals and Mobile Clinics in Hajj Season
Dr. Hussam A.B. Naser, Thesis work from the European Master in Disaster Medicine
Hajj season is a huge mass gathering for Muslims in Mecca every year in the same place and time, this mass gathering carries many risks that need to be…
Mortality after fluid bolus in African children with severe infection.
New England Journal of Medicine 2011 June 30, 364 (26): 2483-95. Kathryn Maitland, Sarah Kiguli, Robert O Opoka, Charles Engoru, Peter Olupot-Olupot, Samuel O Akech, Richard Nyeko, George Mtove, Hugh Reyburn, Trudie Lang, Bernadette Brent,…