Public Health
2018 – Smart City Breakthrough Year
Smart city development has progressed over the past few years, with most of the conversation surrounding smart city planning has so far focused on...
Egozi: The Annual Purim Debacle – Firecrackers Are Explosives
By Arie Egozi
It is hard to understand how a state like Israel, maintaining intense security measures in its airports and ports is unable to...
Factors To Consider When Buying A Police UAS
Law enforcement agencies across the US are adopting unmanned aerial systems (UAS) for operations ranging from search and rescue to traffic accident reconstruction and...
Paramedics Are Now Piloting BLVO Drones
Paramedics in Canada can now see the bigger picture, as Federal authorities in the country has granted a county in the Ontario Province a...
New Software to Prevent Biological Attacks
US Federal research facilities rely on internet-connected devices to automate many basic building functions like ventilation, heating and security, as well as more hazardous...
Facial Thermography Can Assess Pilot’s Mental Pressure
With the skies becoming ever more congested, pilots and air traffic controllers have to juggle a number of tasks and mental pressure on the...
Drone Delivery Tech Applied in Life Saving Operations
Drone delivery has been expanding to first response in the cardiac emergency setting. Every minute literally counts in increasing the odds of survival for...
Technologies to Uncover Emerging Biothreats Sought
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has recently launched the Hidden Signals Challenge, a $300,000 prize competition seeking...
Anti-Poisoning Treatment for First Responders
A first-of-its-kind treatment for the life-threatening effects of cyanide poisoning will be developed soon. The treatment is needed because cyanide could be used as...
Nanotechnology to Help Airport Security Process
Public health has become an important consideration when talking about airports, including security checks. How clean are airport security trays? Everything goes in those...
Wireless Sensor Will Evaluate Army Recruits’ Fitness
When we think about military injuries, we think of injuries having to do with guns and bombs, but studies have shown non-combat musculoskeletal injuries...
Medical Deliveries by Drone Are Expanding
Drones have been carrying out medical deliveries such as blood samples and vaccines successfully to remote sites in the developing world for some time....
A Startup Company is Securing Mobile Communication Privacy for US Enterprises
The iHLS Security Accelerator is home to many innovative and successful startups. ListenApp is one of the first startups that's participated in the accelerator...
An iHLS Startup: Augmented Reality Used for Medical Emergency
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...
Sensor Will Optimize Warfighters Performance Under Demanding Conditions
The U.S. military has a great interest in the comprehensive measurement and tracking of metabolism, both for optimizing warfighters performance under demanding physical conditions...
A New MDA Unit – Electric Bicycle Riders
When saving people’s life, every second is important and might be critical. Magen David Adom (MD), Israel’s national rescue organization, has recently inaugurated a...
Next Global Security Threat – Bioterrorism
The future of international security will be fought on the biological front. Rapid advances in genetic engineering have opened the door for small terrorist...
Europe Preparing for A Different Sort of Terrorist Attack
Following the Christmas market attack in Berlin, the German government issued a paper stating the country is at “high risk” of terrorist attacks carried...
First Responders’ New Best Friend – Tele-Medical Drone
Two new disaster drones delivered medical packages to victims and rescue personnel in a simulated mass casualty event recently at John Bell Airport in...
In Search of Drugs to Treat Chemical Terrorist Attack Victims
Finding treatment for victims of a chemical weapons attack seems as one of the priorities of the US National Institute of Health (NIH). The...
Video Technology – for Monitoring in Prisons and Hospitals
A UK startup wants to turn digital video cameras into monitors for use in prisons, hospitals, and assisted-living homes.
Oxehealth is one of five finalists...
Internet of Things – for Smart and Secure City Management
The Internet of Things (IoT) merges software and hardware with network connectivity, for the benefit of creating smart cities and safe cities.
IoT devices -...
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