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Floods, tornadoes, terrorist attacks—emergency responders navigate myriad disasters with increasing reliance on technology. Rochester Institute of Technology is educating the next generation of ...

July 2, 2007 — The American Medical Association (AMA) introduced last week a new medical journal devoted to the science of disaster planning and response. The quarterly, peer-reviewed journal, ...

When a natural disaster strikes a Latin American community, the damage doesn't stop at downed power lines and flooded streets. A new study finds that disasters trigger a 69% spike in public protests ...

The impact that identifying the victims of disasters and mass fatalities has on the well-being and mental health of the professionals who undertake the task is the subject of the first academic paper ...

Children practicing preparedness drills. Photo: Courtesy Train 4 Safety Press Former Navy Commander Heather L Beal has found a new mission after 23 years of active service: launching a publishing ...

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and ...

Hurricane Katrina Survivors Face Increasing Mental Health Problems Almost 2 years after the disaster, the incidence of mental illnesses, including posttraumatic stress disorder and thoughts of suicide ...

FEMA now has an end date. President Donald Trump said yesterday that he intends to phase out the Federal Emergency Management Administration after this hurricane season, canceling it like an HBO ...

Senate Democrats are seeking to revive a database that had tracked billion-dollar climate and weather disasters for decades until the Trump administration retired it in May. Subscribe to read this ...

Environment Secretary Dr Deborah Barasa leads launch of the latest Early Warning for All Initiative (EA4All) government-led disaster programme in Nairobi yesterday. She was accompanied (left to right) ...