Academic Life in Emergency Medicine has some really cool cards looking at pain management. Not only are they well laid…
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Ten skills for expedition doctors is a terrific article from an experienced expedition doc. Covering basic skills from splints to…
An interesting look at cancer spread from an intestinal tapeworm in an HIV positive Colombian man. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/11/04/cdc-details-bizarre-unsettling-case-of-41-year-old-man-infected-with-cancer-cells-from-tapeworm/
Hemorrhagic fever as yet undiagnosed in Sudan- https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/health-minister-recognises-haemorrhagic-fever-in-darfur And Pro-Med’s report can be read here: http://www.promedmail.org/post/3760440 Obviously, concern for Ebola…
Estrogen like drug in hemorrhage control starts trials in Alabama. http://www.uab.edu/news/innovation/item/6624-uab-to-start-first-human-trials-of-drug-to-prevent-death-due-to-severe-blood-loss
Some interesting new developments on Ebola virus and its ability to persist in human tissue for much longer than previously…
This might be interesting… https://www.facebook.com/phegov/posts/1068959236477597
Who and why these doctors won the Nobel Prize for medicine. http://www.buzzfeed.com/virginiahughes/2015-nobel-prize-medicine
Lung ultrasound for paediatric pneumonia… http://m.pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2015/03/11/peds.2014-2833
Recent reports of ISIS using chemical weapons have been emerging from multiple sources. The main chemical threats mentioned are “mustard…