S'pore contributing US$50,000 worth of emergency humanitarian supplies to Laos (Channel NewsAsia)

SINGAPORE : Singapore is contributing US$50,000 worth of emergency humanitarian supplies to Laos. Singapore's Foreign Affairs Ministry said the supplies include medicine, food, water and other relief materials.

Singapore contributing US$50,000 worth of emergency aid to Laos (Channel NewsAsia via Yahoo! Philippines News)

SINGAPORE : Singapore is contributing US$50,000 worth of emergency humanitarian supplies to Laos.

If Medicine Is So High-Tech, Why So Much Illness? (US News & World Report)

A fine new book by a former emergency doc asks tough questions gently.

UPDATED, 9:37 p.m.: Jindal issues a state of emergency declaration (The News-Star)

BATON ROUGE — With Hurricane Gustav now on a projected track that could come up the mouth of the Mississippi River, Gov. Bobby Jindal and state emergency officials are speeding up their timeline for taking preventative action. Jindal said at a 5 p.m. news conference today that he has issued a state of emergency declaration and asked the federal government to issue a pre-landfall federal ...

Info from S.A. alters combat medicine (San Antonio Express-News & KENS 5)

Thanks to a San Antonio-based registry of combat injuries, medics no longer use two tourniquets instead of one on a wounded soldier, and surgeons in field hospitals now repair blood vessels in damaged arms and legs at the same time other resuscitation efforts are under way.