Coping with Disasters Update

Coping with Disasters Update

Coping with Disasters Update

MedlinePlus sent this bulletin at 11/29/2013 01:11 PM EST New on the MedlinePlus Coping with Disasters page:

Cardiac Arrests Peaked After Record Japanese Earthquake

11/27/2013 05:11 PM EST

Japan's 2011 Fukushima earthquake, the most powerful ever recorded in that country, generated a killer tsunami, a nuclear power plant disaster and aftershocks of another sort - a 70 percent rise in cardiac arrests, particularly among people age 75 and older, according to a new study.
Source: Reuters Health