Emergency Medical Services

By Arie Egozi Holding a national drill to practice procedures in the event of an earthquake is very good, however, all the preparations seem minor in...

Stop the Bleed is a national awareness campaign and a call to action. Initiated by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Stop the...

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...

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...

iHLS Israel Homeland Security In this weekly report (28 October 2014): Ebola possibly weaponized Safe City projects US next generation bunker-buster bombs New Hovermast unveiled Euclid antenna pedestals

The 6.0 Napa earthquake on 24 August was a wake-up call not only for the wine country. The shaking was also felt in Sacramento...

Homemade deadly viruses? Scientists are warning that decades of public research on the sequencing of virus DNA are now posing unforeseen threats, as synthesis technologies...

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...

British health charity The Wellcome Trust recently announced that a new 15-minute Ebola virus test will become available on a trial basis in Guinea...

In 2013 alone, The Weather Company delivered more 150,000 weather alerts to two-thirds of U.S. adults, and it now is targeting its reach to...

Can that App save you after a severe earthquake? For now it will probably save the lives of a person buried under the weight...

A Belgian scientist who helped discover Ebola in 1976 has accused the World Health Organization (WHO) of mismanaging the current outbreak response. Peter Piot, an...

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...

Water shortage is a form of weapon. Without water, no army can function and the civilian population crumbles to the point of violent clashes...

Defense civilian workers deployed to West Africa can choose one of two options upon their departure from Ebola-stricken countries, if they do not show...

The horror scenario of evacuating tens of thousands of residents living near hazardous materials facilities, refineries or military industries requires an immediate control capabilities...

On February 13th 2013 an IDF unit, stationed along the Syrian border in the Golan Heights, came across seven wounded Syrians who asked to...

Most of us have heard stories, if we haven't witnessed them firsthand, of close family relatives having some sort of seizure or being severely...

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...

Questions about the U.S. government’s legal authority to contain the Ebola virus are increasing, even as federal officials attempt to keep public panic at...

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...

 A recent tragedy like what took place in Newtown, Connecticut where 20 elementary school children and six adults were killed by a mentally disturbed...