National study finds post-traumatic stress disorder common among injured patients
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Suffering a traumatic injury can have serious and long-lasting implications for a patient's mental health, according to the largest-ever U.S. study evaluating the impact of traumatic injury. Researchers from the Harborview ...
Internet-based instruction effective for teaching health-care professionals
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A study led by a team of education researchers from Mayo Clinic and published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) concludes that Internet-based education generally is effective.
New study on rural HIV care has economic and health implications
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Sep 11, 2008 |
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An Indiana University study found that HIV care providers in rural Indiana report significant stigma and discrimination in the rural medical referral system surrounding issues of HIV and substance abuse. Providers felt that ...
Color-coded bacteria can spot oil spills or leaky pipes and storage tanks
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Oil spills and other environmental pollution, including low level leaks from underground pipes and storage tanks, could be quickly and easily spotted in the future using colour coded bacteria, scientists heard today at the ...
New marker for raised intracranial pressure
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) measurements of the thickness of the optic nerve sheath are a good marker for raised intracranial pressure (ICP). New research published today in BioMed Central's open access journal Critical Ca ...
Violence against women impairs children's health
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Violence against women in a family also has serious consequences for the children's growth, health, and survival. Kajsa Åsling Monemi from Uppsala University has studied women and their children in Bangladesh and Nicaragua ...
Mobile phones help secondary pupils
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Ask a teacher to name the most irritating invention of recent years and they will often nominate the mobile phone. Exasperated by the distractions and problems they create, many headteachers have ordered that pupils must ...
Easier-to-hit 'targets' could help older people make the most of computers
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Older people could make better use of computers if icons, links and menu headings automatically grew bigger as the cursor moves towards them.
