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Pregnancy and childbirth are usually considered a blessing in modern times. Off the grid, however, we will be thrown back to the 19th century from a medical standpoint. Back then, childbirth was ...

https://www.doomandbloom.net/signs-of-labor-human-birth-part-1/

A disease that has existed since prehistoric times is making news in today’s West Coast. Long Beach, California seems to be the epicenter of an outbreak of tuberculosis (TB), leading to a publi...

https://www.doomandbloom.net/tuberculosis/

U.S. citizens are no strangers to natural disasters. In spring and early summer, tornados are a major concern in certain parts of the country; most recently,  the states of Nebraska, Oklahoma, I...

https://www.doomandbloom.net/tornado-season-tips/

In this episode of the Survival Medicine Podcast, Dr. Joe and Nurse Amy Alton discuss important tips on controlling bleeding wounds (18 tips, as a matter of fact!), The cover-up (alleged) of the ...

https://www.doomandbloom.net/survival-medicine-podcast-bleeding-biological-warfare-lifevac-more/

Many different disaster scenarios can lead to mass casualties. The largest in the last century, short of a World War, was a biological event: the COVID pandemic. I have always believed that COVID...

https://www.doomandbloom.net/biological-agents-as-weapons/

The COVID pandemic is over, and the virus is now one of those that circulate through the population annually. There has always been doubt, to many, about the apparently spontaneous emergence of C...

https://www.doomandbloom.net/call-me-crazy-but-was-there-a-covid-cover-up/

Experts are waving the red flag on the bird flu virus that has infected wild and food-producing poultry, farm animals like cattle, fur-bearing critters, and recently, a dairy worker. The virus, 2...

https://www.doomandbloom.net/bird-flu-the-next-viral-outbreak/

You know, we talk a lot about medical supplies that you have to get serious training for, like tourniquets, hemostatic dressings, decompression needles, and the like, but there are important supp...

https://www.doomandbloom.net/survival-medicine-podcast-internal-injuries-bandages-dressings-raw-honey-antiseptics-more/

The family medic should know about hemorrhage and how to treat it as a basic skill, but there are aspects not always clear to the average person. This companion video to a recent article is Part ...

https://www.doomandbloom.net/video-thoughts-on-bleeding-control-part-2/

The family medic should know about hemorrhage and how to treat it as a basic skill, but there are aspects not always clear to the average person. This companion video to a recent article is Part ...

https://www.doomandbloom.net/video-thoughts-on-bleeding-control-part-1/