Preventing Hospital Violence: A Guide
A new guide covers readiness and response to violent incidents in medical facilities.
Violence at hospitals is a common phenomenon. Hospital environments are naturally full of tension,...
Israeli Airborne Rescue: The MDA Helicopters
Two farm workers, badly burned
A child's hand stuck in a gate, with several fingers severed
A traveler in the Judea desert suffering a heart attack
These...
App Helps save People Trapped by Avalanche
Can that App save you after a severe earthquake? For now it will probably save the lives of a person buried under the weight...
Locate an Emergency Caller Using Wireless Phone
The U.S Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has proposed rules to help emergency responders better locate wireless 911 callers. The proposed rule changes stem partly...
Smartphones to Help Find Avalanche Victims
Almost every winter people find themselves in many countries trapped after a snow avalanche.
In the search for those buried beneath the snow, every second...
Israel Helps Syrians Wounded in the Civil War
On February 13th 2013 an IDF unit, stationed along the Syrian border in the Golan Heights, came across seven wounded Syrians who asked to...
Israeli Home Front Command: Ready for Anything
"When an army is ready for war it also has to be ready for all types of disasters, natural and man-made. In order to...
The Israeli MDA Fleet of Vehicles
Magen David Adom (MDA) is an Israeli medical emergency and rescue service. The MDA uses many kinds of vehicles, allowing medical teams to quickly...
Magen David Adom on the Recent Storm: Past Lessons Were Learned
Following the recent storm the MDA (Magen David Adom, an Israeli medical emergency service) intends to acquire snow-plowing kits to be installed on the...
The MDA’s New Emergency Medical Care Motorcycles
This week in Jerusalem: The MDA's (Magen David Adom, an Israeli medical emergency service) new emergency medical care motorcycles started making their rounds. The...
The Israeli MDA Presents its New Command and Emergency Vehicles
The latest MDA (Magen David Adom, Israeli equivalent of the Red Cross) command vehicle was based on a Dutch truck chassis, built in England...
New Medical Air Filtration Systems
By iHLS NewsDesk
A group of Israeli eye doctors climbs a mountain somewhere in Latin America, to an altitude of almost 10,000 feet. Their goal:...
How to increase security in hospitals?
A recent tragedy like what took place in Newtown, Connecticut where 20 elementary school children and six adults were killed by a mentally disturbed...
Eurocopter’s EC135 to perform Medevec missions in Turkey
Eurocopter’s EC135 will perform medical airlift duties throughout Turkey with a fleet of 17 helicopters to be flown by the Turkish Aeronautical Association’s THK...
Israeli systems on the future Canadian SAR aircraft?
Canadian government procurement specialists are scrambling to release a bid package to industry for a multibillion-dollar military search-and-rescue (SAR) aircraft after a scathing report...
Preparedness and Response to a Mass Casualty Terrorist Event
Explosive devices are the most common weapons used by terrorists. The damage inflicted in recent events in India, Pakistan, Spain, Israel, and the United...
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A major security alert has been issued for Google Chrome users following the discovery of a critical zero-day vulnerability currently being exploited by attackers....
