Treating HIV in war zones -- Public health emergencies need rapid advice from WHO
Heather Culbert and colleagues report their results of three years’ experience of providing HIV care, including antiretroviral therapy...Fond du Lac County tracks cell phones in emergencies
Fond du Lac County can now pinpoint the locations of cell-phone users when they call 911, making it just the second county in Wisconsin to install the necessary equipment. The system has been in place for about six weeks and has already been field-tested, In one case, th...Federal command center is at the front line of defense for public health emergencies
WASHINGTON A strain of avian influenza is detected on a poultry farm in Texas. Soon, there are reports of the same flu strain on farms in Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. How can health officials be mobilized to stop the flu from making the leap from birds to humans? That process may well begin at the All-Emergency Room, the high-tech command center built by Health and Human Servi...Guns, Knives - Main Cause for Hospital Emergencies
A new study reported in Tuesday’s issue of Canadian Journal Emergency Medicine, suggests that injuries from Knives & Guns have accounted to over 3% (40,000) of 1.2 million emergency visits in Ontario trauma care between 2002 and 2003. // The study Researchers at the Toronto-based Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) looked at the gunshots and knife wounds in Ontario's 180...