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Nurse Riham Awad roams daily among the tents of displaced persons in the Mawasi area of Khan Yunis, in southern Gaza, to ...

The center employs costumed interpreters who don’t just recite facts from a script ... you’ll get some very confused looks. Civil War chic: These reenactors bring history to life, minus the dysentery ...

Of the approximately 30,000 amputations performed in the Civil War there was a 26.3-percent mortality rate. In the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, despite the lessons learned in the Civil War and the ...

Thousands of lower limb amputations a year could be prevented – according to new research into a condition called peripheral artery disease. A new report says the NHS could save millions of ...

Standard of care for patients with these types of injuries involves autologous vein grafting, but harvesting a vein requires time and increases the amputation risk, and is not always feasible.

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In addition to the humanitarian catastrophe, the Syria civil war continues to take a serious toll on the country’s economy. The Syrian people are faced with homelessness, as at least 22 percent ...

Syria's civil war grew out of Assad's brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protests in 2011. More than a decade later, about half a million people have been killed, according to The Syrian ...

The sudden downfall of longtime Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at the hands of a rapid rebel offensive has brought a dramatic new turn to Syria's nearly 14-year civil war. While opponents of the ...

August 18, 2013 – A team of UN weapons inspectors arrives in Syria to begin an investigation into whether chemical weapons have been used during the civil war. August 22, 2013 – The UN and the ...