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- New Jersey State Radiation Protection Programs - Information on state radiological regulatory programs, radiation safety in medicine and the environment. Nuclear reactor safety in New Jersey and related topics.
- Hyperbaric Medicine Unit - Decompression Sickness - The unit's site provides information for SCUBA divers on decompression sickness, including first aid actions and contact information in the event of a diving emergency.
- Dive Safety in Southeast Asia - A list of recompression chambers (hyperbaric chambers) in southeast Asia including Borneo and Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, and Singapore.
- DAN Divers Alert Network - A nonprofit scuba diving and dive safety association providing expert medical advice for underwater injuries, emergency information, research, and products.
- Badalveda - Provides health service for divers, including recompression facilities and emergency services. Find mission statement, links, and article on diving hazards. Located in Koh Tao, Thailand.
- The British Hyperbaric Association - Provides details of current clinical practice and avenues of research under exploration. Includes list of member chambers with emergency telephone numbers for divers.
- Panic underwater - Some information from a study about panic among divers, and related issues, by Dr. William Morgan, director of the Sport Psychology Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the principal author of the study.
- DiveAssure - Insurance and assistance program for divers everywhere in the world.
- Dive Master Insurance Consultants - United Kingdom-based company with a full range of diving insurance policies.
- Medidive - Supplier of equipment for asthma sufferers. Includes details of products, newsletter and contact information. Located in Brisbane, Australia.
Wikipedia Articles
- Aviation medicine - Aviation medicine, also called flight medicine or aerospace medicine, is a branch of preventive or occupational medicine in which the patients/subjects are pilots and aircrews. The specialty strives to treat or prevent conditions to which aircrews are particularly susceptible, applies medical knowledge to the human factors in aviation and is thus a ...
- Diving medicine - Diving medicine, also called undersea medicine, is the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of conditions caused by humans entering the undersea environment. It includes the effects on the body of pressure on gases, the diagnosis and treatment of conditions caused by marine hazards and how relationships of a diver's fitness to dive affect ...
- Center for Wilderness Safety - The Center for Wilderness Safety was created in 2003 to help alleviate the lack of qualified Wilderness Medicine courses available along the East Coast of the US. With only a few viable organizations teaching Wilderness First Aid and like courses, the Center for Wilderness Safety has found a niche by offering its courses primarily to Scouts and Scouters, as well as corporate entities such as ...
- Personalized medicine - Personalized medicine is the use of detailed information about a patient's genotype or level of gene expression and a patient's clinical data in order to select a medication, therapy or preventative measure that is particularly suited to that patient at the time of administration. The benefits of this approach are in its accuracy, efficacy, safety and speed.
- Genetically modified food controversies - ... GM food controversy is a dispute over the advantages and disadvantages of genetically modified food crops. No major health hazards have come to light since GM food was introduced 13 years ago, and close to 150 governmental and/or industry-financed studies have been published to attest their safety NAS Report - Safety of Genetically Engineered Foods: Approaches to Assessing Unintended Health Effects (2004) by Food and Nutrition Board (FNB) Institute of Medicine (IOM) Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources (BANR) Board on Life Sciences (BLS)