Terrorism and mental health focus of NIMH-funded study
... To determine whether vulnerability factors (prior trauma exposure, lower education, prior psychiatric history, minority status, immigrant status, poverty) increasingly exacerbate the impact of ongoing terrorism (whether they act in an increasingly more negative fashion as threat and loss mount) To identi...Two UCSF faculty named fellows of the American Academy of Nursing
...e relationships between partner violence, lifetime trauma exposure and abused women's symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, chronic pain and depression. Over the past decade, she has expanded her collaborations with colleagues in Mexico, Colombia, and Hong Kong and added a focus on culturally specific...Botulinum toxin helps facial scars heal better, Mayo Clinic finds
...n early after the occurrence of a wound -- such as trauma from a dog bite, motor vehicle accident or assault...chers recruited patients with forehead wounds from trauma such as auto accidents, or from surgery, such as skin cancer excision. Forehead wounds were selected...Newsbriefs from the journal Chest, August 2006
... and inflammatory cell counting, may be due to the trauma of cough itself and not to an underlying cause of cough. Researchers conclude that, because airway inflammation caused by chronic cough may be similar to that seen in other respiratory conditions, clinicians must be cautious when attributing importan...Elevated rates of mental health problems among survivors of tsunami
...survivors need to facilitate natural recovery from trauma exposure and the resulting stress is the restoration of conditions of safety and predictability. Stabilizing the social environment and creating opportunities for survivors to resume their livelihoods and take control of their lives may be the best '...Ninety-eight percent of Gaza's children experience or witness war trauma -- Queen's study
...ealth Survey to describe relationships between war trauma and psychological problems in children. According to the study, a child in Gaza who has had a severe head injury has 4 times the risk of emotional disorder. A child who has been severely beaten has 3.9 times the risk of Attention Deficit Hyperactiv...Spray-on skin relieves emotional trauma for child burn victims
... skin is helping child burns victims cope with the trauma of scarring, according to a study by University of Queensland researchers at the Royal Children's Hospital in Brisbane. A study has shown most children reported an improvement in the appearance of their scars and were happier when they used the prod...Scientists discover why cornea is transparent and free of blood vessels, allowing vision
...tein could heal corneas that have undergone severe trauma or help shrink tumors fed by rapidly growing abnormal blood vessels," he says. "In fact, the next step in our work is exactly this." ...Study recommends new tool to assess blunt abdominal trauma
...tection of solid organ injuries in blunt abdominal trauma patients," said Massimo Valentino, MD, lead author...15-89 years old. All patients had "blunt abdominal trauma caused by vehicle crashes, accidental trauma, trauma while working, or trauma from participating in ......hat's done to a body's organs during hemorrhage or trauma by using drugs that are commonly used by type 2 di... HS (hemorrhagic shock) is established in civilian trauma and has gained interest in the military setting in light of the recent increase in TBI from blast in...4th International Conference on Memory
...ion, ageing, eyewitness accounts, stress, arousal, trauma and abuse, amnesia, and the science of pinpointing memory though new advances in brain imaging and neuroanatomy. Media highlights ICOM-4 will hear a host of international scholars who have shaped modern scientific understanding of memory. All seaso...Manchester academic to tell conferences: Child abuse can cause schizophrenia
...g voices is consistently associated with childhood trauma regardless of diagnosis or genetic pedigree." Dr R...o them. They admit not all schizophrenics suffered trauma and not all abused people develop the illness, but believe less traumatic childhood maltreatment, ra...Researcher develops better way to detect shock
...riy Batchinsky, will soon begin collecting data on trauma and burn patients at the Army Burn Center at Brooke Army Medical Center. This summer, researchers from Virginia Commonwealth University will test the sensor to ensure that what Soller believes she's measuring is actually what's being measured. "It is...Diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis falls shortnon adherence compounds issue
...ound that the majority of patients treated for low trauma fracture are not adequately screened for osteoporo...lity care (see conference Abstract No. P203). Low trauma fractures are caused by a force that would usually not break a bone, such as a fall from a standing ...Public needs to heighten awareness of dangers of elevated TVs that are larger, heavier
...Southwestern and medical director of the pediatric trauma service at Children's Medical Center Dallas. Researchers reviewed 26 cases handled by the Children's emergency department between November 2003 and October 2004. The children injured by falling TVs ranged in age from 1 to 7 years old. Some of their ...UF addiction medicine chief honored for lifetime achievements
... is much more like a brain injury or football head trauma than an infection," he said. "Its effects last for years after the trauma or injury." Although the Bradley award is for lifetime achievement, Gold says his work is far from f...Children's emotional distress after hurricane linked with parents' stress levels
...t said. "If we don't help parents cope with mental trauma following a disaster, they won't be able to help their children." Mary Kay Burns, administrator at the DeSoto County Health Department, said the study findings will be a springboard for community action. "This gives us an opportunity to work with our...Low estrogen levels in men linked to increased risk for hip fracture
...so recorded hip fractures not associated with high trauma occurring since the study start. During the study, 39 men experienced a low trauma hip fracture (for example, incurred due to a fall from a standing height or less). Those with low es...Children's Hospital uses latest CT technology in ER for better diagnoses
...st of 2005. "There are very few, if any, pediatric trauma centers in the United States that have both the 64...d use the 2-D and 3-D images to evaluate pediatric trauma CT studies," Barnes said. "For many years physicians in the ED have used by default the same technol......afety net" hospital, and the regional value of the trauma center. When voting was over, the health care measure had passed by a 71.5 percent majority. "[T]he improbable evolved into the unbelievable as the fervor of a few became the mandate of the many," Dr. Swift and colleagues write. Surgeons a...