WMA calls for urgent support to fight Ebola

WMA calls for urgent support to fight Ebola.

Supporting Those Who Go to Fight Ebola

1 Stanford Law School, Stanford, California, United States of America, 2 Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, 3 Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, 4 Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Ma...

Ebola vaccine--an urgent international priority.

a national movement that gives a voice to people affected by inequities in coverage and access to dental care is essential. Of course, the ultimate goal is care, not insurance, but we know that incorporating coverage of oral health into health insurance reduces costs and improves health. Can the economic implications of this evidence lead to change? We believe that we must mobilize, as our pred...

Obama calls on Congress to fund $6.2bn emergency Ebola initiative.

At a speech given on 2 December at the US National Institutes of Health, President Barack Obama called on Congress to pass his $6.2bn (£4bn; €5bn) funding request for emergency Ebola programs before its recess for the holiday period. “For the most part, people have recognized this is not a Democratic issue or a Republican issue—it’s about the safety and security of the American people. So let’s...

24-hour pattern in lag time of response by firemen to calls for urgent medical aid.

The aim of the study was to assess the group 24-h pattern of lag time (LT) in response by regular and volunteer firemen (RFM and VFM) to calls for medical help (CFMH), specifically calls for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). LT, duration in min between a CFMH and departure of service vehicle equipped with a semiautomated defibrillator and generally staffed with four well-trained and ready-...