Researcher says few families report safe firearm storage
...store them separately from ammunition." Firearm ownership was highest in families with two adults in the home, according to the study. Families in rural areas are more likely to own long guns and families who own long guns only are more likely to store guns unlocked but store ammunition separately from guns...Study: Chain-owned nursing homes hurt by too much standardization
...anagement structure other than the fact that chain ownership has a significant impact on patient care. This stu... have stressed in the larger project is that chain ownership is not necessarily bad for the quality of health care, Banaszak-Holl said. "What is problematic is a...Kenya moves toward national food and nutrition policy
...the middle of 2007. "We want to facilitate genuine ownership and collaboration on nutrition and food policy in Kenya," Gleason concludes, "so that the many ministries with a hand in food and nutrition are actively working together to implement change."...Clinical trial coordinators need more financial conflict-of-interest training
...a vested interest in a trial and an investigator's ownership of stock in a sponsoring company. Clinical trial coordinators usually conduct most of the informed consent process by explaining to potential participants such details of the study as possible health benefits and risks. But more frequently now, the t...Opening of specialty cardiac hospitals associated with increase in rate of cardiac procedures
...l hospitals. Reforms directly related to physician ownership include enhanced transparency of financial relatio...iffer, the current findings suggest that physician ownership of specialty hospitals may be problematic if such ownership increases the use of services for patien...Study reveals Aussies' social obsession with mobile phones
...t a phone if you forgot or lost your mobile. "As ownership rates have increased, they've become a huge part of people's social lives ... without their phone, people feel like they are out of the loop," she said. Ms James' survey showed the average monthly phone bill was $65. About 8% of respondents said th...States with higher levels of gun ownership have higher homicide rates
...nship between survey measures of household firearm ownership and state level rates of homicide, researchers at ...that states with higher rates of household firearm ownership had significantly higher homicide victimization rates for children, and for women and men. In these ...'Stranger danger' threat and lack of green spaces put kids off walking
... of parents (191) responded to questions about car ownership and family matters, including ethnicity. Children who made more than the average 20 trips by foot in the previous week were classified as high walkers, and comprised just over 40% of the sample Those who walked less than this were classified as l...'Living While Black' index measures variety of stress factors for African Americans
...er the relationship between difficulty in business ownership and life stresses such as drinking and mental health problems. It could be that these outcomes are the products of the difficulties of obtaining funds to run their businesses effectively. Such relationships, which are the products of data from state-...USC research shows dogs and smog don't mix
...h, phlegm production or bronchitis and dog and cat ownership among 475 southern California children with asthma who participated in the Children's Health Study, a longitudinal study of air pollution and respiratory health. Children with dogs had significantly increased cough, phlegm production and bronchiti...Parents of teens more likely than parents of younger children to store firearms unsafely
... attitudes and beliefs surrounding firearms, their ownership and storage practices and demographic information about themselves and other members of their households. About 22 percent of parents reported having a loaded gun, 31.5 percent had an unlocked gun and 8.3 percent had an unlocked, loaded gun. In 11...Should patients have to opt out of electronic records?
...ex. This approach acknowledges patient control and ownership of medical information. Both opt-in and opt-out approaches have risks and benefits, he says. The key disadvantage of an opt-in system is that records populate the regional index slowly, making adoption of data sharing slow. Another is that a clinic...Deaths from rodent virus raise need for tracking system
...ion of LCMV through transplants is extremely rare, ownership of household pets such as gerbils or hamsters is not a reason to preclude the life-saving gift of organ donation. However, in cases where the disease transmission by an organ transplant is suspected, tests must be performed to determine whether LCMV ...Survey suggests parents' perceptions about children's access to household guns are often inaccurate
...they conclude, "suggest that in a region where gun ownership is prevalent and where children are frequently included in gun-related activities, many mothers appear to be misinformed about the extent of their children's potential access and exposure to household guns."...Alcohol-branded merchandise associated with early teen drinking
...m multiple studies conducted during the 1990s that ownership of tobacco branded merchandise was linked with tee...ss to alcohol were not examined, and that, because ownership of alcohol branded merchandise was not determined prior to the assessment of alcohol use, causality ...Avantogen and Hawaii Biotech to combine vaccine businesses
...icable to both Avantogen and Hawaii Biotech,equity ownership of the newly combined company can be adjusted to 60%-40% in either direction. Leonard Firestone, M.D., current CEO of Avantogen, will become CEO of the newly combined company, while Carolyn Weeks-Levy, current VP of Research, Development, and Regulat...Medical centers vary in disclosing conflicts of interest
...nnel to a consulting contract to an investigator's ownership of stock in the sponsor. A number of agencies, such as the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), have recommended that one part of managing financial conflict of interest is to include information about it in the consent process that occur...Avantogen and Innovate merge key oncology program, RP101, RP101
...iting prospects". Dr Opara added "streamlining the ownership and management of RP101 will appeal to the capital markets in the US and strategically makes commercial sense when we begin to consider licensing and partnering opportunities." BIO-IB, LLC, a New York based healthcare investment banking boutique, act...Free care by Florida emergency physicians climbs faster as uninsured patient visits increase
..., Medicaid and indemnity insurance. While hospital ownership public nonprofit, private nonprofit or for-profit leads to very different levels of uncompensated care for hospitals, it did not determine the levels of uncompensated emergency physician care. Emergency physician groups providing the highest levels......s the possibility that more frequent household pet ownership may be one factor in lower lung function in suburban-related health exposures, although larger backyards with more allergenic plants could be a contributor. "Our research could be subtitled 'No Man is an Island,'" said Paul Blanc, MD, UCSF professor...