Drumheller, Alberta ambulance prepares to take part in Operation Christmas Child 2006. This year’s gift box collection will take place November 6. (photo by Grant Therrien).

An ambulance outside a London hospital, 2000. More than a quarter of the country’s NHS trusts are failing to meet hygiene regulations brought in to combat outbreaks of superbugs in hospitals, the Healtchare Commission has reported.

A responder using a dog patrols the grounds following a simulated radioactive ‘dirty bomb’ attack Tuesday, Oct. 16, in Portland, Ore.