National EMS Memorial Service Closes Out 2018 Weekend of Honor
Oxon Hills, MD - On Saturday the families, friends, and colleagues of the 36 EMS and air medical professionals who lost their lives in the line of duty in service to others will gather for the National EMS Memorial Service, closing out the 2018 Weekend of Honor. Honor guards along with bagpipe and drum corps travel from around the United States to volunteer their time and services in honor of the fallen. This year’s keynote speaker will be Joseph W. Schmider, Emergency Medical Service Director for the Texas Department of Health Services. There will also be a team from HOPE Animal-assisted Crisis Response (http://hopeaacr...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - May 18, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: National EMS Memorial Foundation Tags: News Administration and Leadership Source Type: news

Arrival of the National EMS Memorial Bike Ride Kicks off the National EMS Weekend of Honor
Oxon Hill, MD- On Friday, May 18 at approximately 4:00 p.m. the families, friends, and colleagues of EMS and air medical professionals who lost their lives in the line of duty as well as EMS legacy personnel who have died of natural or non-employment-related causes will gather to cheer the National EMS Memorial Bike Riders as they roll into the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center Lower Level Atrium (Waterfront). The riders began their journey in Boston last Saturday and have traveled over 500 miles in the rain in honor their fallen colleagues. They will be led by law enforcement and fire/EMS vehicles as they proc...
Source: JEMS Administration and Leadership - May 18, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: National EMS Memorial Foundation Tags: News Administration and Leadership Source Type: news

New research shows that wasps drum to alert one another of food nearby
(LaGuardia Community College) New research shows wasps have their own way of communicating to each other about mealtimes -- drumming on their gaster (or abdomen) to let each other know that there's food nearby. For nearly five decades, researchers thought the gastral drumming was a signal of hunger. These findings are the first evidence that wasps have complex communication about food, just as ants, bees, termites, and other social insects.
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - May 15, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: news

A performance analysis of In-Car Music engagement as an indication of driver distraction and risk - Brodsky W.
Drivers engage in a host of driving-unrelated tasks while on the road. They listen to music, sing-along, and accompany songs by pounding-out drum-kicks and syncopated rhythms on the steering wheel. However, there is controversy over in-cabin music: Does ba...
Source: SafetyLit - May 2, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Distraction, Fatigue, Chronobiology, Vigilance, Workload Source Type: news

You Asked: Is Listening to Music Good For Your Health?
If you’re looking for an easy way to transform your mood, cue the music. Studies have shown that music can buoy your mood and fend off depression. It can also improve blood flow in ways similar to statins, lower your levels of stress-related hormones like cortisol and ease pain. Listening to music before an operation can even improve post-surgery outcomes. How can music do so much good? Music seems to “selectively activate” neurochemical systems and brain structures associated with positive mood, emotion regulation, attention and memory in ways that promote beneficial changes, says Kim Innes, a professor ...
Source: TIME: Health - April 26, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Markham Heid Tags: Uncategorized healthytime Mental Health/Psychology Source Type: news

Malawi:First Lady Takes Cervical Cancer Awareness to Kasungu
[Nyasa Times] First Lady Gertrude Mutharika on Wednesday took her cancer awareness initiative to Kasungu district in an effort to drum support for the reduction of deaths of women caused by cervical cancer.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 15, 2018 Category: African Health Source Type: news

The terrifying phenomenon that is pushing species towards extinction
Scientists are alarmed by a rise in mass mortality events – when species die in their thousands. Is it all down to climate change?There was almost something biblical about the scene of devastation that lay before Richard Kock as he stood in the wilderness of the Kazakhstan steppe. Dotted across the grassy plain, as far as the eye could see, were the corpses of thousands upon thousands of saiga antelopes. All appeared to have fallen where they were feeding.Some were mothers that had travelled to this remote wilderness for the annual calving season, while others were their offspring, just a few days old. Each had died...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 25, 2018 Category: Science Authors: David Derbyshire Tags: Climate change Animals Science Kazakhstan Biology Zoology Conservation Environment World news Source Type: news

One possible delta tunnels deal would give cheap water to farmers — and more expensive water to cities
Months of behind the scenes talks have failed to drum up enough money to pay the full costs of replumbing the center of California ’s sprawling waterworks with two giant water tunnels.That has left the state with little choice but to scale down a roughly $17-billion water delivery project to fit...
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - January 25, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Bettina Boxall Source Type: news

Strange Weather Triggered Bacteria That Killed 200,000 Endangered Antelope
Over a three-week span in 2015, more than 200,000 saiga antelope suddenly died in Kazakhstan. The animals would be grazing normally, then dead in three hours. A new study points to heat and humidity. (Image credit: Courtesy of the Joint saiga health monitoring team in Kazakhstan (Association for the Conservation of Biodiversity, Kazakhstan, Biosafety Institute, Gvardeskiy RK, Royal Veterinary College, London, UK))
Source: NPR Health and Science - January 17, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Merrit Kennedy Source Type: news

Don't knock the flu jab – it’s a modern miracle
As the flu season begins to ramp up, so too do the annual complaints about the vaccine“The flu jab DOESN ’T work, officials admit, ” scolded a recent headline from the Daily Mail.Meanwhile, in the comments under that article, and in shadier regions of the internet, conspiracy theorists are having their usual annual field day: the flu vaccine actuallymakes people sick; the World Health Organisation is in cahoots with Big Pharma; the vaccine is being deliberately sabotaged by its manufacturers to drum up business for more expensive anti-viral therapies.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - January 15, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Jenny Rohn Tags: Vaccines and immunisation Science Health Society Source Type: news

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