When considering hurricane preparedness, understanding and promoting coastal resilience is crucial. The newly formed DHS Coastal Resilience Center of Excellence (CRC) will build upon the successes of its predecessor, the Coastal Hazards Center of Excellence (CHC), which developed essential storm surge and flood models that were critical for pre-storm planning.
Three antibiotics that, individually, are not effective against a drug-resistant staph infection can kill the deadly pathogen when combined as a trio, according to new research. The researchers, at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, have killed methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in test tubes and laboratory mice, and believe the same three-drug strategy may work in people.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) announce the appointment of nationally recognized experts to the Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria (the Advisory Council).
The National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health has just released its newest resource for health educators and trainers. The curriculum covers topics ranging from special considerations for older adults in specific types of disasters to ethical and legal issues related to the care of the senior population during a disaster.
A new U.S. Forest Service report shows that continued expansion of housing development near forests has direct implications for wildfire management. More of the Forest Service's resources are spent each year to provide the firefighters, aircraft and operators, and other assets necessary to protect lives, property, and natural resources in the wildland urban interface regions.
On September 23, EMERGE participants will demonstrate their technology concepts and prototypes to the investor community and industry in San Francisco, California. Demo Day will showcase a wide range of innovative technologies including body-worn electronics, advanced sensors, and integrated voice and data communications embedded in a responder's gear.
When someone goes missing, the first few minutes and hours of the search are critical. The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) First Responders Group recently released a mobile app, developed with the support of search and rescue (SAR) teams around the nation, that provides step-by-step instructions on search plans for first responders and response teams.
U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort will anchor off the Haitian coast, marking its final Continuing Promise 2015 mission stop with an opening ceremony. Since April, the U.S. Southern Command hospital ship has taken a team of U.S. military medical and construction personnel, private-aid organizations, and partner-nation officials to 11 Latin American and Caribbean nations.
The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate's Electronic Recovery and Access to Data (ERAD) Prepaid Card Reader is becoming a vital tool for law enforcement seizing stacks of plastic cards, that have been turned into prepaid cards, and funds associated with criminal activity.
Cleveland BioLabs Inc. announced that the Department of Defense has awarded them a contract valued at up to $9.2 million to support further development of entolimod as a medical radiation countermeasure. Entolimod is a novel, broad-spectrum investigational drug being developed to mitigate the life-threatening consequences of a radiological attack.
