First Aid in Emergencies

First Aid in Childbirth

First Aid

due to a nearby vacuum cleaner or a passing tramear. You will find that these devices will not help you when you are confronted with disease far from the resources of a modern hospital. The only thing that matters is whether or not you have taken heed to the lesson first taught in the Eastern Mediterranean over two thousand years ago, repeated again by the old Cromwellian captain-"the trooper t...

First Aid in Accidents

Preface Decision aid models for disaster management and emergencies

A disaster is understood as the disruption of the normal functioning of a system or community, which causes a strong impact on people, structures and environment, and goes beyond local capacity of response. In the global world of the 21st century, a disaster that occurs anywhere of the planet affects to the whole human Society. All regions on The Earth are interconnected and any serious problem...

Chromosome first aid.

Most people take the stability of chromosomes for granted. Some may imagine metaphase chromosomes lined up like a butterfly collection on a page, reassuringly in order and unchanging. However, evidence that has been accumulating for over half a century indicates that genome stability is a dynamic, not a static, process. In the 1940s natural chromosomes ends, or telomeres, were shown to be speci...