Mental health service costs offset by savings in other public sectors
...juvenile justice system included detention but not court costs or probation and aftercare services. Similarly, we have not captured general administrative costs. In the case of child welfare, for example, these costs could be quite large. If, as seems likely, these omitted costs are proportional to the ...Murder, eyewitness identification and the limits of human vision
...ce of 450 feet. And, in a post-script, an appeals court orders a new trial based in part on "scientific tr...ewitness identification. In late 2004, an appeals court granted a new trial. "It is becoming more apparent that there are serious problems with eyewitness ...'Broken heart' syndrome: Real, potentially deadly but recovery quick
...e party, fear of public speaking, armed robbery, a court appearance and a car accident. Eighteen of the stressed patients were female, between the age of 27 and 87, with a median age of 63. The results were then compared to seven other patients, all of whom had suffered classic, severe cases of heart att...Services for children: Training needed to tackle complexity of new labour's joined-up approach
...Agencies and specialists involved included police, court workers, psychologists, social services, probationary, voluntary sector, education and health professionals. The study found that heavy demands are made on the professionals involved in implementing multi-agency teamwork in terms of their need to ret...Illness and medical bills cause half of all bankruptcies
...ires to 1,771 bankruptcy filers and reviewed their court records. 931 of the filers subsequently underwent more detailed interviews about their financial and medical circumstances. The researchers found that illness and medical bills contributed to at least 46.2%, and as many as 54.5% of all bankruptcy f...Privacy rule cuts research recruitment by more than half
...ts in a case that also briefly engaged the state's court system. Fortunately, the University of California reversed its stance." Still, concern continues among many researchers, Dr. Ness said. The American College of Epidemiology, on whose board Dr. Ness serves, and the Association of American Medical Coll...Social development program in childhood aids in positive functioning as an adult
...in the past year, and to have an official lifetime court record. "These results indicate that the SSDP intervention package in the elementary grades produced broad effects on positive functioning in school and at work and on emotional and mental health at 21 years of age, nine years after the interventi......laxoSmithKline), a New York lawsuit settled out of court for US$2.5 million, and mounting pressure for an international publicly accessible register of randomised clinical trials. As our nominator wrote: "This study, and related evidence, has huge implications for (a) the inappropriate use of such anti-dep...CIGNA settlement favorable to psychologists
...uary 1, 1990 to the present. The settlement awaits court approval from U.S. District Court Judge Federico Moreno, Miami, Florida. "While we hope that all of our eligible members will access the settlement fund, we believe that a very significant aspect of the agreement is that CIGNA has agreed to improve i...Medical negligence system is 'secretive, unaccountable and unregulated'
...gation is expensive, but cross-examination in open court provides the only opportunity for experts to be challenged under the existing system. The public expects expert witnesses to be up to date with the latest thinking in their speciality and unbiased, says Mr Bishop, but this is often not the case. A n...Research identifies patent barriers to drug importation schemes
...vernments are immune to patent lawsuits in federal court (city and county governments are not), Cahoy points out that patent holders have other legal options through their constitutional rights as personal property owners. "There is no reason that this basic protection of property rights should not ex...Aiding decision making for Baby Charlotte and Baby Luke
...n a more comforting and appropriate setting than a court of law is needed. The Nuffield Council of Bioethics has set up a working party to examine issues around prolonging life in fetuses and newborn babies. Aiding decision making outside the courts should be one of their terms of reference.'...Call for randomised criminal-justice trials
...drug rehabilitation versus prison sentence) in the court room. Professor Bird concludes: "We still lack a...ment and testing order and alternative sentence by court location, injector history, and crime type, would improve vastly on the current indiscipline of data...GMC is right to appeal over life prolonging treatment
...ody for doctors, is right to appeal against a high court ruling that its current guidance on withholding an... be appalled by it. We should hope that the appeal court overturns the judgement," he concludes....Minorities worry public health system won't respond fairly in a bioterrorist event
...o a cluster of plague cases--a move that a federal court in 1900 ruled as unfair, saying that the quarantine was based on ethnic bias. Health officials also unfairly distributed resources during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, and in Baltimore, Jim Crow segregation laws barred African Americans from hospita...Faith in child protection system must be restored
Recent court cases into unexplained infant deaths have led to widespread confusion and have made many paediatricians reluctant to take part in child protection cases, warn experts in this week's BMJ. They call for an urgent review of procedures to restore faith i...Medical research suffers under data protection law
...reat deal of public money would be saved if a high court judge concluded that the novel demand for informed consent has no basis either in law or in established common practice, they conclude....Study suggests brain haemorrhage in babies over age one month unlikely from traumatic delivery
...rom the aspect of non-accidental head injury: in a court of law, the defence may claim that an isolated subdural haemorrhage presenting in later infancy is due to a birth injury. Babies with subdural haemorrhage in this study were followed up until age 2 years. A subsequent MRI scan at age 4 weeks showed c...... but some expert witnesses are still testifying in court that they can work out the dose a victim took from... has testified in American, British and Australian court cases and believes the mistake is becoming more widespread. He says around a third of cases where th......ve the couple should get approval from a religious court first, and the husband needs to do a muta'a, or temporary, marriage with any egg donor so the child is not born out of wedlock. However, since a married Shi'ite Muslim woman cannot marry another man sperm donation from a man other than her husband is...