Will Your Cellular Phone Work During Emergency?
Emergency communication is of the utmost importance. Emergency services need to coordinate their response in time, but the situation becomes more complicated when the...
WHO: Ebola will infect thousands more people in Liberia within weeks
Ebola is spreading fast in Liberia, where many thousands of new cases are expected over the coming three weeks, the World Health Organization has said.
"Transmission of the Ebola virus...
Locating First Responders Has Just Become Easy
Keeping firefighters safe and communicating with them have been major technical challenges for decades. While outdoors, they can use GPS to track one another,...
Saving Lives: Israel’s MDA During Protective Edge
During Operation Protective Edge Israel's MDA (Magen David Adom medical emergency service) treated 648 rocket-related injuries and 906 women who went into labor. 32...
New Addition to The Smart Ambulance Model
Emergency response work is physically and mentally exhausting, placing extreme demands on the paramedic both at the civilian and military settings. The critical equipment...
New Medical Air Filtration Systems
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A group of Israeli eye doctors climbs a mountain somewhere in Latin America, to an altitude of almost 10,000 feet. Their goal:...
Emergency Vehicles to Help Map Radiation Threat in City
A radiation threat detection system was successfully tested recently by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
DARPA’s SIGMA program—whose goal is to prevent...
How To Make First Responders More Efficient
Olga Grosman
Imagine a scenario where whoever came to save you is injured during the rescue effort. Perhaps they were burned from the raging fire, or inhaled...
Ebola epidemic: WHO declares global emergency
Facing the worst known outbreak of the Ebola virus, with almost 1,000 fatalities in West Africa, the World Health Organization declared an international public...
UAE unfolding as major UAS hub
Experts: the UAE as ideal location for 'Humanitarian UAV Centre of Excellence'.
With the UAE already underlining its credentials as the world's largest donor of...
A drone that can save lives
The Netherlands has unveiled a prototype of an "ambulance drone" which could potentially save lives by offering a rapid response after heart attack incidents....
Advanced tech saves
US military taps advanced technology to save lives.
The U.S. Southern Command’s Science, Technology and Experimentation division showed off GeoSHAPE. This tool would have been...
New Technologies For Israel’s First Responders
Olga Grosman
In recent years, technology has been focusing on better equipping first responders in different conditions and scenarios.
A conference held on Thursday at the...
Why yellow dots are popping up across alabama
Get into serious car accident, it can sometimes be hard to relay pertinent medical history to paramedics, especially if they’re unconscious or otherwise unable...
MDA Concludes Two Weeks Of Saving Lives
During the past two weeks, which started with the murder of Eitam and Na’ama Henkin, Magen David Adom (MDA) forces all over the country...
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...
Recording calls to improve service – is that really so?
AT&T announced it was introducing a pilot system to its Customer Service Relations (CSR) for recording customers' calls as well as analyzing content and...
The US Army will provide Wi-Fi in West Africa for the...
The Defense Department has started to beef up systems needed to support troops and nongovernmental organizations engaged in the Ebola fight in West Africa,...
Wearable translation technology
Responding to disasters around the world requires communicating in foreign languages, the US Army’s Science, Technology and Experimentation division has teamed up with government...
When Paramedics Grow Wings
Anyone who has gotten to spend hours in traffic around the city must have often daydream about a vehicle that could fly above the...
Ambulances go high-tech to prevent crashes
In an emergency, every second counts. But driving at high speeds can compromise the safety of first responders and civilians.
There is a new device...
How drones are helping the Nepal earthquake relief effort
Drones are proving a crucial high-tech tool for aid workers in the aftermath of the devastating Nepal earthquake. With the death toll from Saturday’s...
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Drones Could Soon Navigate Collapsed Buildings Without Slowing Down
Flying autonomous drones through unpredictable environments remains one of the biggest technical challenges in robotics. In confined spaces such as collapsed buildings, industrial sites,...
