A new, neutral symbol for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been approved - one that will allow its use by countries that may suspect the old red cross, or red crescent, might ...

BRITAIN: The quest for a neutral symbol transcending religious, political and national differences was close to resolution yesterday as 192 countries met to adopt a new emblem as an alternative to the ...

The Indian Medical Association is going to prescribe a new emblem to help the public distinguish doctors with MBBS degrees from practitioners of Ayurveda or Unani who often misleadingly refer to ...

The American Red Cross and Johnson & Johnson, the health care conglomerate, announced Tuesday that they had settled a longstanding dispute over use of the Red Cross trademark. The two sides announced ...

NEW YORK — A decision by Johnson & Johnson, the giant health-care conglomerate, to sue the American Red Cross last year for commercializing the Red Cross symbol may be turning into a bit of a disaster ...

Prior to the nineteenth century, the symbols used to identify armed forces' medical services varied according to their country of origin. The symbols were not generally well known, were rarely ...