Archive: 01/06/2015
Study analyzes link between psychotropic drugs and homicide risk
A study analysing the Finnish homicide and prescription drug databases discovered that the use of certain drugs that affect the central nervous system are associated with an increased risk of committing a homicide. The greatest ...
Jun 1, 2015
American surgery patients—more pain medication, yet more pain
New research presented at this year's Euroanaesthesia conference in Berlin shows that American patients undergoing orthopaedic surger receive more treatments for pain and that their experience of pain differs in some aspects ...
Jun 1, 2015
Article concludes no reason for laughing gas to be withdrawn from operating theaters
A debate at this year's Euroanaesthesia meeting in Berlin will focus on whether laughing gas (nitrous oxide) should be banned from the operating room. The debate coincides with an article on the "Current place of nitrous ...
Jun 1, 2015
Patient information too high for patients' literacy
More than 90 per cent of educational materials written for kidney disease patients is higher than an average patient's literacy, according to a new study published in the June issue of the National Kidney Foundation's American ...
Jun 1, 2015
New way to tackle vaccine hesitancy tested, found wanting
Group Health Research Institute conducted the first randomized trial to test an intervention aimed at improving hesitancy about early childhood vaccines by working directly with doctors. Vax Northwest, a Washington state ...
Jun 1, 2015