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Dr. Dimitriy Kondrashov was at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park with his 3-year-old daughter when he got the text from his wife. "There was just a crash at SFO," she wrote. Kondrashov, an orthopedic spinal surgeon, dropped his daughter at home and rushed to the hospital.
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Oklahomans are no stranger to disaster. From the Oklahoma City federal building bombing in April 1995, to multiple weather-related tragedies since, people from all walks of life have learned to come together in times of crisis. It's become known as the “Oklahoma standard.” Recently,...
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Thirty people were removed by ambulance and three were airlifted by medical helicopter after an explosion Thursday morning at a Louisiana chemical plant, located in a small town 20 miles outside of Baton Rouge.
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants hospital construction in flood-prone New York City areas to meet new building, backup power and information technology standards to prepare for extreme weather.
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Though hospitals tend not to encourage the practice, last week's monster tornado in central Oklahoma proved once again that medical centers become irresistible gathering places for fearful and dispossessed residents during large-scale natural...
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A tornado ripped through a small Oklahoma hospital Monday afternoon and rendered the facility helpless to treat victims of the widespread devastation in the area.
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In a rebuttal to the terrorists and a tribute to stellar medical care, all of the more than 180 people injured in the Boston Marathon blasts one week ago who made it to a hospital alive now seem likely to survive.
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For public health officials across the country, the Boston Marathon bombing and the blast at a Texas fertilizer plant last week served as a wake-up call: How would their communities cope?
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Once again, a senseless act of violence has upended any notion that the war on terror will someday end and a sense of normalcy will return to national life.
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Boston hospitals have dealt with emergency department closures, police investigations and hundreds of media requests as they treat patients injured during Monday's explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
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