Comprehensive Effort Needed To Prevent And Treat Traumatic Injuries
...; building features into gunsto reduce the risk of accidental or unauthorized use if the gun does get intotheir hands; and building community coalitions to make youth environments safer. In addition to the success in reducing motor vehicle injury, progress has beenmade in reducing occupational, residential, and......y reported contracting a disease as a result of an accidental exposure. The study, reported in an article appearing in the January 5 edition of theAnnals of Internal Medicine, included 1,022 third and fourth-year medicalstudents from the classes of 1990-1996 who trained at UCSF-affiliated hospitals.Emilie H. Os...New Type Of Artificial Surfactant Shows Promise In Treating Lung Disease
...ion, complications related to cardiac surgery, and accidental aspirationof stomach contents. In these forms of acute lung injury, blood or meconium interferes with normalsurfactant function, making breathing and oxygenation of the blood moredifficult. For example, if capillary walls inside the lungs are inju...Major Causes Of Early Childhood Death From Injury Identified
Homicide, accidental suffocation, motor vehicle accidents, fire,drowning, and choking were the major causes of injury-related death for childrenless than a year of age, according to a study by researchers at the NationalInstitute of Child Health and Human Development (NI......se received byindustrial workers when they have an accidental run-in with high-voltageequipment. But lightning injuries are not the same as electrical shocks. For onething, the contact voltage of a typical industrial electrical shock is 20 to 63kilovolts, while a lightning strike delivers about 300 kilovolts. I...Drug trends among American teens
...arly it is a very dangerous drug, and the mounting accidental death toll among young people proves it. We will be asking about its use in our next survey." The use of anabolic steroids by males in their early- to mid-teens jumped some in 1999. Among eighth-grade boys, the proportion reporting any use in th......ion (4.3% vs. 1.7%), coughing (3.8% vs. 1.3%), and accidental injury (2.9% vs. 1.3%). Allegra 60-mg capsules are well tolerated with side effects similar to placebo. Compared to placebo, the most commonly reported adverse events with Allegra in seasonal allergic rhinitis patients 12 and older are cold or flu...Device is safer than tape or sutures in securing catheters in ill children
...rses and physicians completely avoided the risk of accidental needlesticks that may occur when inserting sutures...ations, such as infections, unplanned removals and accidental needlesticks," said Dr. Schears. "The device was also significantly faster to apply than either tape...... ban its use completely. While case reports of accidental poisonings and suicide attempts have clearly defined the toxic effects of acute exposure to paraquat, the health effects of chronic low-level exposure is not well understood. "At high doses and without immediate medical treatment, paraquat causes......tly more often in ARICEPT(R)-treated patients were accidental injury, insomnia, leg cramps, rhinitis, and abnormal dreams. Overall, 491 patients (79.7 percent) completed the study and 125 (20.3 percent) discontinued, including 73 (11.9 percent) who discontinued due to an adverse event. No deaths were consider...First-of-its-kind study of vascular dementia patients taking ARICEPT presented at AAGP meeting
...cantly more often in ARICEPT-treated patients were accidental injury, insomnia, leg cramps, rhinitis, and abnormal dreams. Overall, 491 patients (79.7 percent) completed the study and 125 (20.3 percent) discontinued, including 73 (11.9 percent) who discontinued due to an adverse event. No deaths were consider...Accidental overdose with Acetaminophen (Paracetamol) carries a greater risk of death
...t patients who are admitted to hospital because of accidental poisoning with acetaminophen (paracetamol) are at ...edical floors. However they maintain that cases of accidental poisoning and in situations if the case history was in doubt should be managed in intensive care uni...Stroke survivors have brittler bones, more likely to fracture
...ed by stroke. The fractures are usually caused by accidental falls. One study shows that 73 percent of 108 patients studied had fallen in the six months after suffering a stroke. Research has shown that stroke patients fall to the side of the paralysis and are less able to stretch out an arm on that side to ...Baxter introduces Baxject needleless transfer device at International Haemophilia Congress
...cation without the use of sharp needles or fear of accidental injury. The BAXJECT device reduces the time it ta...s and a process that greatly reduces the chance of accidental injury. Additionally, there are fewer needles in the home, including fewer disposed sharps that can ...Study finds public lacks awareness of effective alcohol control policies
...taxes on alcoholic beverages would result in fewer accidental deaths. Respondents were equally divided on whether raising the drinking age to 21 had resulted in fewer deaths. This means they were unaware of the overwhelming evidence demonstrating that tens of thousand of lives have been saved by this policy, ac...Progress and future directions for management of hepatitis C
...exual behaviors and occupational exposures such as accidental needle sticks, and mother-to-infant transmission. Clinical trials are providing persuasive evidence that treating HCV with a combination of pegylated interferon and ribavirin produces a considerably better sustained viral response (SVR) than monot...Experience alters how we perceive emotion
...hild might over-interpret a social cue, such as an accidental ball toss during recess, to be hostile. As a result, the child might try to protect himself by lashing out, calling names or exhibiting other inappropriate behaviors. By recognizing an abused child's sensitivity to cues of anger, Pollak says psycholo...ORNL adds three R&D 100 Awards to DOE lab-leading total
...aid in design work with the primary aim to prevent accidental cracking or breaking of the structural materials. DSI AIR: Defect Source Identifier Automated Image Retriever, developed and jointly submitted by Ken Tobin, Tom Karnowski and Regina Ferrell, all from the Engineering Science and Technology Division, ......toxicology screens are routinely used to eliminate accidental or deliberate poisoning or drug overdoes, the authors urge that MS/MS-based methodology to provide a metabolic screening panel should become equally as routine among medical examiners....Minority children more likely to be evaluated for physical abuse
...und that African-American and Latino toddlers with accidental injuries were over five times more likely than Cau...acial groups were most pronounced in toddlers with accidental and indeterminate injuries. Compared to their Caucasian counterparts, toddlers with accidental injur...