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The mobile field hospital

The Internal Security Force (ISF) Lekhwiya has acquired a new ‘mobile field hospital’ –  a Karwa urban bus-turned medical ambulance for treating victims during large-scale emergencies.
The vehicle, the first of its kind in the country and the region, is designed to provide mass casualty incident response and transport, medical evacuations, on-site triage, Emergency Medical Services rehabilitation and medical support.
“Having this medical bus on hand for large scale emergencies can be a tremendous resource,” Dr ...

“We couldn’t hear anything,” says Aaron Tushabe, recounting a trip with two friends to the maternity ward of the main hospital in the Ugandan capital, Kampala. The student had been handed an ear-trumpet-like device called a Pinard horn, used to listen for the vital signs of a baby in a mother’s abdomen. Despite straining to hear against the murmur of the ward, Tushabe couldn’t hear any signs.

Luckily, the problem was not with the baby, but the combination of what he ...

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British engineers say they’ve developed a low-powered ultrasound that plugs into a laptop’s USB port and can be made for only $50 or $65.

The device could be useful for pregnant women in poor countries where clinics in rural areas might lack ultrasound systems, which typically cost thousands of dollars, according to the researchers from Newcastle University.

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The Food and Drug Administration for the first time approved an automated ultrasound device as an adjunct to mammography screening for women with dense breasts.

The decision, announced Tuesday, follows an April FDA advisory panel meeting which unanimously recommended approval for the device, called the somo-v Automated Breast Ultrasound System. The company that makes the device, Sunnyvale, Calif.-based U-Systems, also received an “approvable” letter from the agency in May, indicating likely approval once the company’s manufacturing plants passed an audit. ...