Yapili is a web based platform that connects patients with local or international doctors in areas with a shortage of health workers. The platform is a safe, cloud based solution […]

With improvements of medical care, increasing numbers of people with underlying medical conditions are travelling to high altitude. These trips can lead to risks, including developing acute altitude illnesses, as […]

Recently, Maybritt Kuypers, one of the founders of Outdoor Medicine,  started a new job as “European Space Agency Flight Surgeon” in other words: Medical Doctor for the European Astronauts at […]

Villafuerte and Corante have published a review on chronic mountain sickness (CMS) in High Altitude Medicine and Biology (June 2016). CMS or Monge’s disease is a highly prevalent progressive incapacitating syndrome. More […]

Outdoor Medicine board members Maybritt and Wouter gave a workshop ‘medical kits, improvised splinting and patient transport at the Dutch Emergency Medicine Conference 2016 last week. They were supported by […]