News tagged with air medical services

Significant regional variations exist regarding proximity to burn centers

Although nearly 80 percent of the U.S. population lives within 2 hours by ground or helicopter transport to a verified burn center, there is substantial state and regional variation in geographic access to these centers, ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Engineering a safer world

Innovations in software and technology are creating increasingly complex systems: cars that park themselves; medical devices that automatically deliver drugs; and smartphones with the computing power of desktop ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Georgetown researcher on climate change: Reduce contribution, care for victims, advocate

Physicians and nurses have a role if not "a moral and professional responsibility to act" to help to reduce climate change and help those impacted, say the authors of "Climate Change & Health: Is There a Role for the Health ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 6

Fire ant colonies seem to be down dramatically

The red imported fire ant, one of the most horrifying of the foreign species that have established themselves in the United States, appears to be in retreat.

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New nanotechnology converts heat into power when it's needed most

Never get stranded with a dead cell phone again. A promising new technology called Power Felt, a thermoelectric device that converts body heat into an electrical current, soon could create enough juice to make another call ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (9) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Sick US South Pole scientist flown to New Zealand

A US scientist stranded in Antarctica for almost two months following a suspected stroke has been evacuated from the South Pole to New Zealand in a hazardous airlift.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers work to take the errors out of the cloud

Cloud computing, which taps the resources of a network of remote computers, offers tremendous potential for storing and processing vast amounts of data quickly and cheaply. The catch: As cloud computing applications become ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Why Apple falls after new product announcements

(AP) -- Here's a market riddle for you: Why does Apple's stock fall on the same day the company reveals a new product?

Technology / Business

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Dream is over for Virgin Galactic space tourist

Venture capitalist Alan Walton has trekked to the North Pole, climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and skydived over Mount Everest. A hop into space to enjoy a few minutes of weightlessness would have been the ultimate ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 04, 2011 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (7) | comments 23

Buildings house secret servers that keep the Internet running

From the outside, the Gothic brick and limestone building a few blocks south of downtown almost looks abandoned.

Technology / Internet

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 10

'Trade is not a four-letter word'

While many Americans see today’s increasingly competitive global economy as contributing to the nation’s economic woes, UPS Chairman and CEO Scott Davis argued in a Tuesday talk at MIT that free ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Sep 29, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 128


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