Category: News & Features

Skydiving in the Stratosphere - Dr Jon Clark Interview

Skydiving in the Stratosphere – Dr Jon Clark Interview

Meet the doctor who’ll help you skydive from space. We interview Dr Jon Clark of Baylor College of Medicine, medical consultant for Felix Baumgartner’s Red Bull Stratos and Alan Eustace’s StratEx record-breaking jumps.

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Extreme Medicine Videocast 2: Everest Avalanche

Extreme Medicine Videocast 2: Everest Avalanche

Yash and Jan talk to the Everest ER Team who were on duty on when the devastating avalanche struck on 18 April 2014.

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Ebola: how to volunteer & the UK response

Ebola: how to volunteer & the UK response

In a follow-up to our Ebola Q&A article, Dr Holly Gettings, Consultant at Guy’s & St Thomas’ in London, tells Adventure Medic about the UK Response to Ebola.

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Adventure Medic wins Excellence in Remote Medicine Award

Adventure Medic wins Excellence in Remote Medicine Award

Last night, we were honoured to be named Organisation of the Year at the Excellence in Remote Medicine Awards, announced at a reception during the World Extreme Medicine Expo in London.

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We are all climbers: Climbers Against Cancer

We are all climbers: Climbers Against Cancer

We talk to John Ellison, founder of Climbers Against Cancer, about his hugely successful charity and the strength and support of the global climbing family.

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Ebola Virus - Expert Q&A

Ebola Virus – Expert Q&A

With the international response to Ebola finally kicking in, and mixed coverage in the press, we asked experts from the University of Reading and LSHTM about the virus itself.

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Flying for Heroes

Flying for Heroes

Congratulations to the Flying for Heroes team on completing their 1000km paratriking mission from Mt Kilimanjaro to Mt Kenya.

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Hypoxia and Cold - From Science to Treatment

Hypoxia and Cold – From Science to Treatment

Dr David Hillebrandt and Adventure Medic Student Rep Naomi Dodds report back on the Tenth World Congress on High Altitude Medicine and Physiology and Mountain Emergency Medicine, held in Bolzano, Italy in May this year.

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Jon Dallimore Q&A

Jon Dallimore Q&A

We chat to Jon Dallimore, Editor of the Oxford Handbook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine and International Mountain Leader about the ups and downs of a very enviable career.

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Bubbles in the Wilderness: All About FOAM

Bubbles in the Wilderness: All About FOAM

Highlighting an impressive cosmos of online resources for the adventure medic, Dr Tash Pirie-Burley gives us her lively insight into the world of Free Open Access Medical Education (FOAM).

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