Bali Medical Evacuation Medical evacuation or often referred to as a “Medivac”, was initially developed to transfer injured soldiers from the battlefield to a proper medical facility for better treatment.  The military were first to establish a specially designed aircraft for medivacs.  By time, air medical evacuations have became available for civilians and operated by [...]

Hard Rock commemorates the 14th of June as their “Founder’s day” as 39 years ago, in 1971, was the opening of the first Hard Rock Cafe in London. This year, Hard Rock Bali, organized a beach cleaning event involving Bali’s paramedics, in accordance of their mantra “Save The Planet”. Two hundred staff and management from [...]

Positive or negative? This is the big question for every woman taking the home pregnancy test. In fact, then another question should pop-up, “Is it false-positive or false-negative?” Read on. Home pregnancy tests are designed to detect the presence of hCG, the hormone manufactured by the blatocyst (the name for the hollow clump of cells [...]

You must have heard about people having a heart attack, where there is a blood clot blocking the blood supply to the heart. Similar to a heart attack, pulmonary embolism is a lung attack, where a blood clot is blocking the blood supply to a certain part of the lung.  In most cases, the clots [...]

Smoking kills more than 440,000 people a year, making it more lethal than AIDS, automobile accidents, homicides, suicides, drug overdoses and fires combined.  Think twice before you smoke that cigarette. Smoking may be even more dangerous now than 30 years ago, most likely because the lower tar and nicotine levels in most cigarette brands cause [...]

Surfing Injuries Although surfing is thought to be a relatively risk free sport, with an incidence between 3 – 4 injuries per 1000 days of surfing, we think it’s wise that you know what to expect and what to do before riding the waves. Surfing is an ancient sport originally from Hawaii. There is written [...]

Sore Throat We might just call the sore throat a common sore, since it is as common as the common cold. It could happen to anyone, anywhere and anytime. It can be an early sign of many diseases, even some serious diseases. The key is “Pay attention, but don’t panic”. What are the dangers of [...]