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Unconventional (But Delicious) Items Discovered in First-Aid Kit

A US Central Command spokesman has highlighted the quick thinking and selflessness of a US Navy sailor this week. Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Mick ...

First Aid on the Front Lines of Venezuela's Civil War

Meet the volunteer medical brigade caring for those wounded in increasingly violent anti-government protests. A demonstrator suffering the effect...

Oregon Man Fights Shark, Gives Himself First Aid (the man, not the shark)

It’s the first thing they tell you – if you’re being attacked, punch the shark in the nose or gills. But during the unpredictable disorder of an at...

First Aid in the Age of Terrorism

Would you know what to do if you were first on the scene of a terrorist outrage where dozens of people were injured and dying?  ‘There is a well kn...

Wanna bleed to death? Use your belt as a tourniquet!

I recently read an article on a preparedness website describing how to modify a belt to be a better tourniquet to stop severe bleeding.  While I re...

10 Incredible True Shark Attack Stories

Every year, there are about sixty shark attacks reported world wide. These are ten of the scariest and most amazing stories of shark attacks ever ...

Alone. Injured. Dying: A Gripping Survival Story in the Sierra Nevada

 At 13,568 feet, the view from the top of Mount Goddard, in California’s Sierra Nevada, was bleakly magnificent—jagged peaks, granite slopes, and c...

Incredible Invention Saves Lives

Ingenious Tourniquet Invention Saves Lives An inflatable abdominal tourniquet recently revived two men who were moments away from bleed...

The Essential Surfing First Aid Handbook

Adam Branoff, MD, grew up in Daytona Beach, Florida, and owned his first surfboard just after kindergarten, so it’s safe to say that the emergency...

First Aid Kit From World War II Begins To Heal Divided Family

It had been more than 25 years since my mom last saw her, and I had never seen her. We had been to Boston many times, but this trip was different. ...