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News and Future Developments

We live in a dynamic society driven by changes in technology, demographics, risks, laws and regulations.  Knowledge of important developments is needed to fully build your comprehensive emergency management program.

Global Trends

General

• RefDesk (lots of links)
• Excite, select News and do search
• State Dept
• International Info, from State Dept
• CNN
• BBC

Emergency Management

• FEMA News Room
• FEMA map with federally declared disasters by state
• International Journal of Mass Emergenices and Disasters
• Operational Significant Event Imagery (OSEI)
• Threats and Warnings

 

Medical & Health News

• CDC Media Relations, including press releases
• CDC E-mail newsletters, with form for subscribing
• Mental Health News
• Cancer Related Web Sites

 

• WebMedLit Plus, searchable extracts/articles from over 20 of the best online medical journals, covering the range of medicine

 

• Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
• New England Journal of Medicine, for full text of articles you must subscribe
• The Lancet, Interactive, online medical journal including articles such as "Nurse practitioners in emergency medicine"
• bmj.com, British Medical Journal online

 

• InteliHealth, Home to Johns Hopkins Health Information, including such features as Deskercises for use at the office
• drkoop.com, family, wellness, and community health news and resources -- site founded by Dr Koop, former U.S. surgeon general

 

• Annals of Emergency Medicine, American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Online, by subscription
• The Journal of Trauma Injury, Infection, and Critical Care

 

• The Medical Reporter (health newsletter)
• ABC News Health & Living
• CNN - Health Main Page, Cable News Network
• MSNBC Health News
• Reuters Health Information Services, Inc.
• Science Daily
• USA Today Healthline
• Yahoo! News Health Headlines
• Your Health Daily, The New York Times Syndicate

Wire Services

Top Stories:

• AP
• Reuters
  World:
  
• AP
• Reuters

Sci-Tech News and Publications

• Tech News
• Federal Computer Week
• Government Computer News

• Science News online, weekly journal that condenses developments in to a couple of understandable paragraphs, covers medicine and just about all areas of science
• Issues in Education and Technology, online, publication of the National Academy of Sciences and others
• Harvard Science Review
• ScienceNOW
• Discover, monthly, science and tech
• Nature, weekly, science
• Scientific American, monthly
• Yahoo list of science magazines
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, on security, military, and nuclear
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory Review
• News Report Online, on activities of National Academy of Sciences
• Science, "global weekly of research" -- fee for full text
• Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Research Review
• Science Daily, "your link to the latest research news"
• UniSci, "daily university science news"
• MSNBC Technology News

• MIT Technology Review, includes free e-mail tech newsletter
• BBC Science and Technology News
• Issues in Science and Technology, by National Academy of Sciences
• Science & Technology Review, formerly Energy & Technology Review, about research at Lawrence Livermore National Lab

• CNN Technology

Computer Publications

• ZD Net, news, reviews, etc.
• CNET.com, like a Yahoo site dedicated to computers and technology
• PC Week online, business and technology

• Chips, U.S. Navy's information technology magazine
• Federal Computer Week, government tech news
• Government Computer News, from federal to local

• Military Information Technology Online

• PC Magazine online
• PC World online

• Mercury Center, Personal Computing News
• The Chronicle of Higher Education
  • The Chronicle of Higher Education, Information Technology
  • The Chronicle of Higher Education, Distance Education
• MacWeek, about Macintosh
• MacWorld Online, about Macintosh

Emergency Management

• Organization and Mission of the Emergency Preparedness and Response Directorate: Issues and Options for the 109th Congress - Congressional Research Service report
• Emergency Management in the 21st Century: Coping with Bill Gates, Osama bin-Ladenand Hurricane Mitch by Claire B. Rubin
• Threats and Warnings

Search and Rescue

• Search and Rescue for the Next Century, U.S. Coast Guard

News and Views

• The Futurist magazine
  • Future Survey of trends, etc.
• MIT Technology Review
• Science News online, weekly journal that condenses developments to a couple of understandable paragraphs, covers medicine and just about all areas of science
• Educom Review -- conclusions not just applicable to education
• Popular Science, some "future" stuff each issue
• Popular Mechanics, some "future" stuff each issue
• PC Magazine online
• New Scientist magazine
• Scientific American online
• The National Academies, on Science, Engineering, and Medicine

• Intelligence Is the Future: Intelligence Applications & Analysis for Law Enforcement