Emergency Medical Services

Earlier this month, China has launched the first-in-the-country emergency rescue team that will use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), Beijing Daily reports. Six UAVs are now...

The word “terrorism” is typically associated with bomb and bullets, but security experts say that there are other types of terrorism which may bring...

A team of MIT engineers has come up with an economical UAV design that can hover for long durations to provide wide-ranging communications support...

Municipalities across the country are planning to connect 911 dispatch centers in an effort to improve information sharing. Paul Nave, director of Owensboro-Daviess County’s...

In this weekly report (7 October 2014): Ebola as seen from space Domestic extremism Summit at the Whitehouse, Hackers unleash Shellshock bug New octocopter UAS Darpa looking into the...

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

New wireless technologies that are designed to assist emergency responders were tested recently at the Gorge Amphitheatre in Washington. Several organizations partnered together to...

A simple, basic medical device aimed at saving lives on the battlefield was developed and manufactured by a medical start-up company based in Ra'anana,...

Earthquakes aren't measured linearly, but in orders of magnitude, which means a 6.1 magnitude quake like the one that recently shook Northern California is...

Again, rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip. I won’t relate to the ridiculous response by the IDF, sending the airforce to bomb "terror...

Prof. Yonina Eldar’s laboratory at the faculty for electrical engineering at the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) is developing an innovative approach for ultrasound...

In this weekly episode (02 Sep 2014): - NSA and its new tracking software - Undersea sensors - GHOST: The unmanned system - Domestic extremists - Ambulance drivers safety תוכנה...

Connecticut and Kansas are working to install next-generation 911 systems, which some say are a necessity in an ever-burgeoning wireless mobile society. A citizen at...

Shortly after 9/11, reports began to emerge that one of the reasons many firefighters died in the attack was that police helicopters circling above...

A 30-person team of medical specialists training at Fort Sam Houston in Texas are expected to wrap up on Saturday, DOD spokesman Lt. Col. Tom Crosson...

Officials are planning the first major rollout of California's earthquake early warning system next year, providing access to some schools, fire stations and more...

Although the realities of the fire fighters’ job has changed, the governmental regulations have not. The number of calls to the fire department in...

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) and the Center of Disease Control both estimate that the death toll due to Ebola might exceed...

When a person is injured, one of the first things a doctor does is measure their vital signs - heart rate, breathing rate, body...

Airmen from the 633rd Medical Group set up tents for a 25-bed hospital to aid Liberian health workers infected with Ebola on October 8...

In New Year’s Eve of 2015, thousands in Shanghai came to the Bund where a light show was to take place to mark the...

“You have very little cellphone coverage,” said Steven Van Roekel, chief innovation officer at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). “You have unreliable power...