News tagged with health policies


Study shows preschoolers affected by medication-related poisonings at alarming rate

Poisonings in young children have increased over the past decade, mainly due to medications in the home. A new study led by the Central Ohio Poison Center at Nationwide Children's Hospital, found that medication-related poisonings ...

Pediatrics created May 16, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Comorbidities should be factor in prostate biopsy choice, study finds

UC Irvine Health urologists and health policy experts report in a new study that two written assessments that identify existing comorbidities – the patient-reported Total Illness Burden Index for Prostate Cancer (TIBI-Cap) ...

Cancer created May 15, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Social considerations not accounted for in DSM-5

(HealthDay)—Social and population variations in mental diagnosis are not accounted for in the newly revised fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), according to ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created May 14, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Researchers apply lessons of animal herd behavior to reduce alcohol-related traffic deaths

Maurizio Porfiri, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly), is best known for his work on biologically inspired robots that mimic the movement of schooling ...

Other created May 16, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0