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Restricting firearms access for people who misuse alcohol may prevent violence
Restricting access to firearms for people who misuse alcohol could prevent firearm violence, but policies that more clearly define alcohol misuse should be developed to facilitate enforcement, according to a review of existing research and public policies.
Developing Standards ‘Of, By, And For’ Older Adults: Reflections On Patricia Gabow’s Narrative Matters Essay
Imagine three people: a healthy 30-year-old, a 60-year-old with high blood pressure, diabetes and arthritis, and a 90-year-old who is frail and has dementia advanced to the point where her speech often doesn’t make sense. If I lined them up, any doctor could instantly tell me which was which. Ditto if each broke a bone and I showed the physicians only their x-rays. And if I asked the clinicians to predict each patient’s risk of complications and adverse events based on nothing more than the few words above, they would again rapidly and reliably make accurate assessments. Yet, for the most part, our health system lumps these three people into a single “adult” category, an approach that flies in the face of anatomy,
Microscopic sonic screwdriver invented
Engineers have created tiny acoustic vortices and used them to grip and spin microscopic particles suspended in water.
Tasmanian Government urged to ensure medicinal cannabis available to patients
The Tasmanian Opposition calls on Government to ensure medicinal cannabis becomes available for patients.
Smokers and those exposed to passive smoke require more anesthetic and painkiller during operations
New research shows that both smokers and those exposed to passive smoke require more anesthetic and painkillers to reach the same level of anesthesia as non-smokers.
About privilege
An excellent reminder from Toby Morris about how some people–more and more, it seems–end up where they are. I’m sorry to say, but I see an awful lot of the left-hand plate attitudes from people in leadership positions in hospitals–a belief that they deserve to be where they are, relative to those who’ve led less privileged lives.An excerpt, one of a sequence….(With thanks to Vijay Sadasivan, in Salem, India.)
Personnel Matters: Health tax credit could be revived
Employees who lose their jobs due to foreign competition, as well as retirees in failed pension plans, again would be eligible for generous federal health insurance premium subsidies under legislation approved by the U.S. Senate. The subsidy, known as the Health Coverage Tax Credit , expired at the end of 2013.
Phobias in children could be overcome with tuberculosis drug: research
Common phobias in children of spiders, dogs or flying could be overcome with the help of an antibiotic used to treat tuberculosis, researchers say.
Eye-gazing technology empowering students at Darwin school
New computer software that allows a person’s eye to control a computer cursor is giving a voice to students in the NT who cannot communicate verbally.
Positive results from pacritinib Phase 3 trial for treatment of myelofibrosis presented at ASCO 2015
CTI BioPharma Corp. and Baxter International’s Bioscience business today announced data from PERSIST-1 – a randomized Phase 3 registration-directed trial examining pacritinib for the treatment of myelofibrosis – in a late-breaking oral session at the 51st Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, May 29-June 2, 2015 in Chicago, Ill.