News tagged with journal of trauma


Despite new recommendations, women in 40s continue to get routine mammograms at same rate

Women in their 40s continue to undergo routine breast cancer screenings despite national guidelines recommending otherwise, according to new Johns Hopkins research.

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

Cyclist's benefit from helmets clearly shown

Cyclists who don't wear a helmet are almost six times more likely to suffer a severe head injury than their helmeted counterparts, according University of Sydney research published in the latest issue of the Medical Journal of ...

Health created May 06, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Two new papers on dabigatran etexilate (Pradaxa) and intracranial hemorrhage

The Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group is pleased to announce publication of two new studies on dabigatran etexilate (Pradaxa®) and intracranial hemorrhage: one in the Journal of Neurosurgery and the other in Neur ...

Surgery created May 01, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Neurosurgical injuries sustained during the April 2011 tornado outbreak in Alabama

Neurosurgeons from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Medical Center recount their experiences in treating patients with head and spine injuries during the epic April 2011 tornado disaster. The authors focus on ...

Surgery created Apr 23, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Electronic health communications often unavilable to lower income patients

Lower-income patients want to communicate electronically with their doctors, but the revolution in health care technology often is not accessible to them, due to inadequate health information services within the health care ...

Health created Feb 26, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Parents of teen girls more accepting of birth control pills than other contraceptive methods

Parents are more accepting of their teenage daughters using birth control pills than any other form of contraception, including condoms, according to a recent study from UC San Francisco (UCSF).

Health created Feb 12, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Trauma patients, community say they support exception from informed consent research

Traumatic injury – including car accidents, gunshot wounds, and stabbings – is the leading cause of death for people younger than 40 years old in the United States, but despite the toll of these injuries, few emergency ...

Surgery created Feb 01, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Is there a period of increased vulnerability for repeat traumatic brain injury?

Repeat traumatic brain injury affects a subgroup of the 3.5 million people who suffer head trauma each year. Even a mild repeat TBI that occurs when the brain is still recovering from an initial injury can ...

Neuroscience created Jan 10, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Neuroprotective agent does not benefit patients with traumatic brain injury, study finds

(Medical Xpress)—A supplement used worldwide as a memory enhancer and to help in recovery from stroke and head trauma provided no benefit in enhancing the recovery of adults who had suffered a traumatic brain injury, according ...

Medical research created Dec 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers offer simple, inexpensive way to improve healing after massive bone loss

Bones are resilient and heal well after most fractures. But in cases of traumatic injury, in which big pieces of bone are missing, healing is much more difficult, if not impossible. These so-called "large segmental defects" ...

Surgery created Nov 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Helmets save lives of skiers and snowboarders

The use of helmets by skiers and snowboarders decreases the risk and severity of head injuries and saves lives, new Johns Hopkins-led research suggests. The findings debunk long-held beliefs by some that the use of helmets ...

Health created Nov 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Acute care model improves surgical care quality, lowers costs for two procedures

An acute care surgery model led to improvement in the quality of surgical patient care and reduced the cost of emergency surgical care at Loma Linda University Medical Center, report researchers who published their findings ...

Surgery created Nov 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study examines role of microglial cells as both defenders and fighters in the nervous system

(Medical Xpress)—In many pathologies of the nervous system, there is a common event - cells called microglia are activated from surveillant watchmen into fighters.  Microglia are the immune cells of the ...

Neuroscience created Oct 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Criteria used to diagnose sports head injuries found to be inconsistent

In recent years it has become clear that athletes who experience repeated impacts to the head may be at risk of potentially serious neurological and psychiatric problems. But a study of sports programs at three major universities, ...

Neuroscience created Oct 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

When physicians report unfit drivers, crash rates go down, study shows

(Medical Xpress)—Mandatory physician reporting of patients who may be medically unfit to drive led to a substantial decrease in serious road crashes, according to a new study from the School of Medicine and the University ...

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