Public Health

Despite publicly dismantling his chemical weapons stockpiles, and despite repeated assurances from his Russian partners that he has long since stopped using deadly gas...

An American Jihadist, Douglas Mccain, 33, was killed in Syria last weekend fighting for the ISIS extremists, he was killed in a battle with...

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

Short 90- and 140- character wireless emergency alert messages delivered over mobile devices are "substantially less effective" than much longer messages to spur people...

Medical devices may not be ever-present in headlines, but that does not mean no new developments in the field happen. Rather, in recent years...

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...

The Ebola epidemic is continuing to spread, with the current death toll at 1500 and the number of patients estimated at 2500. This outbreak...

A new way of detecting chemical weapons: thin-film materials change color in response to chemical warfare agents. In today’s world, in which the threat of...

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...

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

iHLS Israel Homeland Security In this weekly report (18 November 2014): Low-cost Ebola sensor Self-healing computers: next step in fighting hackers The Chinese civilian UAV market Morocco to assist UAE...

Four hundred feet above a Malaysian forest, a three-foot eBee drone hovers and takes pictures with a 16-megapixel camera every 10 to 20 seconds....

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have identified weak spots on the surface of Ebola virus that are targeted by the antibodies in ZMapp, the...

Shipping giant UPS has launched testing of drones to deliver packages to remote and difficult to reach locations. UPS begun the tests recently using a...

 Isis is trying to develop biological  weapons. Foreign Policy quotes information found on a laptop computer seized from an ISIS  operative in the Irbil...

After an earthquake and the resulting tsunami devastated Japan’s coastal areas and badly damaged the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in 2011, plans were...

The number of labs handling dangerous pathogens continues to grow, and so does the number of accidents involving dangerous pathogens. The number of reported accidents...

Olga Grosman Professor. Zvi Shiller is the Chairman of the Israeli Robotics Association, a professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics Faculty of...

Monrovia, Liberia: Six U.S. military planes arrived in the Ebola hot zone Thursday with more Marines, as West Africa's leaders pleaded for the world's...

Flint, Michigan has had a fraught history. In the past the city was a major manufacturing centre of the American automotive industry, but the...

Articles and issues discussed in this week's report: Miami police tests new surveillance drones New armored mini-tractor for law enforcement agents Possible Ebola "dirty bomb" worries experts U.S....

How can first responders be sure they’ve taken care of everyone in the scene? And what if one of the injured, unconscious behind the...