Better communication to improve mountain medicine
 08 Nov 2008
Doctors from 15 countries have met in the Czech Republic to discuss mountain medicine and how to better spread accurate information amongst UIAA members.
UIAA doctors discuss altitude sickness and drug use
 21 Sep 2008
Simple steps to avoid altitude illness, new frost bite treatment and the use of oxygen and medications in the mountains are among the important topics to be discussed at the upcoming meeting of the UIAA Medical Commission.
Indian doctors learn mountain medicine
 06 Jul 2008
The Indian Mountaineering Foundation (IMF) is organising a high altitude mountain medicine course in Leh in Jammu and Kashmir from September 7 to 14. The goal is to expand the number of doctors in the country with such expertise.
New treatment for frostbite saves limbs
 03 Jun 2008
An American medical study has tested new sucessful techniques and drugs to treat frostbite. In the future, this treatment could mean that fewer mountaineers suffering from severe frostbite will have to have arms, legs, fingers or toes amputated.
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