Nurse Amy and I, in collaboration with First Aid Phil and Preparedness Patti, has designed what she believes is a superior first aid kit that works for both pets and their parents! The Ultimate Pet and Parent First Aid Kit will provide both the education and the supplies to treat both your pet’s and your[Read More] The post Video: Amy’s New “Pet and Parent” Kit first appeared on ..read more

  There are various diseases that may confront the caregiver in off-grid settings. Some affect the entire body, but others affect a particular organ in the body. Today, we’ll talk about the human liver and the most common disease associated with it: hepatitis. Although the body’s largest organ is the skin, the largest internal organ[Read More] The post Liver Disease Off The Grid: Hepatitis first appeared on ..read more

Looks like BlogTalkRadio is closing its doors, so we have added Spreaker to your options to listening (audio) and video on YouTube. We’ll be working out the bugs in the first couple of entries, so thanks for your patience. Click to watch/listen via YouTube just below or listen via Spreaker below that: Spreaker: Wishing you[Read More] The post Survival Medicine Podcast Now On YouTube, Spreaker first appeared on ..read more

In this episode of the Survival Medicine Podcast, Dr. Joe Alton and Nurse Amy Alton discuss dead-of-winter hypothermia, including frostbite and other injuries, comment on the rash of vehicular terror incidents including New Orleans on New Year’s Eve, tell you what you need to know about outbreaks of “Rabbit Fever,” also known as tularemia, and[Read More] The post Survival Medicine Podcast: Hypothermia, “Rabbit Fever,” Vehicular Terror, Biochar, More first appeared on ..read more

Officials from the Center For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report that cases of tularemia (“rabbit fever”), an uncommon disease found in rabbits and rodents, have increased by nearly 60% in the U.S. in the last ten years. Caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis, it was first discovered in Tulare County, California in 1911. Since then,[Read More] The post Tularemia first appeared on ..read more

(In an article originally published at AmericanThinker dot com, Dr. Joe Alton gives his thoughts on the recent California surburb fire outbreaks and how to have the best chance of surviving a fire in your home.) I first wrote about surviving a house fire back in 2017, when an apartment building in the Bronx, NY[Read More] The post Surviving A House Fire first appeared on ..read more

Southern California’s Pacific Palisades area near Los Angeles is in the midst of an outbreak of wildfires, and the damage is significant. This is not your classic summer middle-of-the-forest event, but has spread rapidly through residential areas in…January. High winds and dry conditions have led to a situation where the fires are still, at the[Read More] The post Winter Wildfires: Home Ignition Zones first appeared on ..read more

In earlier parts of this series, I discussed what happens when your body is exposed to extreme cold, a condition known as hypothermia. Left untreated, general hypothermia leads to failure of various organ systems and even death.  Besides general hypothermia, however, there are local cold-related injuries, such as frostbite and immersion foot. What Causes Frostbite? The body responds to[Read More] The post All About Hypothermia, Pt. 3: Frostbite/Immersion Foot first appeared on ..read more

  Recently, A truck drove into a crowd at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany recently, leading to the deaths of at least 5 people and injuring 200 more. This followed hard upon a mass school shooting in Madison, Wisconsin, making it clear there are a variety of terror weapons open to the deranged and[Read More] The post Vehicles As Terror Weapons first appeared on ..read more

After a brief lull, an active shooter event occurred in Madison, Wisconsin when a teenage student entered a high school and killed or wounded several people. At present, a number of people are receiving life-saving interventions at local hospitals. In recent years, mass shootings in diverse settings greet Americans with tragic news on a regular[Read More] The post Can We End School Shootings? first appeared on ..read more