The land masses we call home only make up about one-third of the surface of the Earth. This leaves an enormous amount of water, on which we travel in small yachts for fun, vacation on cruise ships -- ...

MERCY Ships, a leading global medical charity operating hospital ships, is transforming lives in Africa by providing ...

Sailing the sea around Africa in a hospital sounds like a crazy dream, and that’s all it was for Don Stephens when he graduated from Grand Junction’s Mesa Junior College more than 50 years ago. Now, ...

The new purpose-built hospital ship will expand the impact of Mercy Ships’ life-changing surgeries, anesthetic care and surgical education for future generations of patients and healthcare ...

In 1949, the Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded, Sick, and Shipwrecked Members of the Armed Forces set out to prevent hospital ships from becoming the targets of ...

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Vice President Mike Pence sends off the ship from Miami on Tuesday. The U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort is beginning a five-month humanitarian mission to the Caribbean, Central and South America ...

Much of rural South Korea has seen its population rapidly decline and age. For some communities off the coast, doctors traveling by boat have become a lifeline for the old and sick. Kim Wong-chae, 85, ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - A local nurse just returned from working aboard the world’s largest civilian hospital ship to help bring medical care to people in Western Africa and said the experience was ...

Hospital ships have been protected by the Geneva Convention since 1949, but hybrid warfare raises questions about those protections. (Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Scott Bigley/Navy) In 1949 ...