News tagged with emergency
Wi-Fi signals can see through walls
Oct 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Utah, USA, have discovered that variations in signal strengths in wireless networks can be used to "see" movements of people on the other side of walls or ...
IBM Reveals Five Innovations that Will Change Cities in the Next Five Years (w/ Video)
Dec 17, 2009 |
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Today, IBM unveiled a list of innovations that have the potential to change how people live, work and play in cities around the globe over the next five to ten years.
Penicillin Allergy Not Always Accurate
Medicine & Health / Medications
Feb 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- If you think that you are allergic to penicillin, ask yourself this: How do you know?
Excessive police violence evident in emergency care cases, say US doctors
Dec 24, 2008 |
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Excessive police violence is evident in the types of injury and trauma emergency care doctors are treating in the US, indicates research published in Emergency Medicine Journal.
9 patients made nearly 2,700 ER visits in Texas
Apr 01, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Just nine people accounted for nearly 2,700 of the emergency room visits in the Austin area during the past six years at a cost of $3 million to taxpayers and others, according to a report. The patients went to hospital ...
Swine flu hits Europe
Apr 27, 2009 |
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Swine flu hit Europe with the first confirmed cases in Britain and Spain on Monday as governments and travel companies urged travellers to avoid Mexico where the virus has likely killed 149 people.
More compressions, fewer interruptions lead to higher cardiac arrest survival
May 04, 2009 |
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Survival rates from out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest almost doubled when professional rescuers using cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) gave better chest compressions and minimized interruptions to them, according to ...
Ultrasound imaging now possible with a smartphone
Apr 21, 2009 |
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Computer engineers at Washington University in St. Louis are bringing the minimalist approach to medical care and computing by coupling USB-based ultrasound probe technology with a smartphone, enabling a compact, ...
Cyborg Crickets Could Form Mobile Communications Network, Save Human Lives
Jul 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- By taking advantage of the way crickets communicate, researchers are building "cyborg crickets" that could form a mobile communications network for emergency situations, such as detecting ...
Astronauts get in shuttle, ready to go to Hubble
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 11, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Astronauts strapped into space shuttle Atlantis on Monday for one last flight to the Hubble Space Telescope, an extraordinarily ambitious mission that NASA hopes will lift the celebrated observatory ...
NASA clears Atlantis for Monday launch to Hubble
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 10, 2009 |
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(AP) -- After months of delay, NASA cleared space shuttle Atlantis for a Monday launch to the Hubble Space Telescope.
An emergency brake in the brain
Nov 26, 2008 |
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Brain researchers at the University of Oslo in Norway have penetrated deeply into the innermost secrets of the brain to find out how brain cells can survive a stroke. Strokes are usually caused by occlusion ...
What makes a hero?
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jul 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New research at Newcastle University shows that it's not enough to be noble and do a courageous act to be considered a hero. Studying the reactions of the public to five tales of heroism, researchers at Newcastle ...
Most would refuse emergency use H1N1 vaccine or additive
Sep 29, 2009 |
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A majority of Americans would not take an H1N1 flu vaccine or drug additive authorized for emergency use by the Food and Drug Administration, according to a University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health and University ...
Stairwell evacuation study finds 'what we know we don't know'
Mar 25, 2009 |
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Most of the time, we use the stairs in buildings—especially in high-rise structures—only as a back-up for faster elevators and escalators, but during a fire or other emergency, stairs become our primary passage ...
