Archive: 20/11/2017

Motorcycle crashes cause five times as many deaths as car accidents, six times the health costs

Motorcycle accidents are costly in terms of lives and health care costs. Compared with car accidents, motorcycle accidents cause 3 times the injuries, 6 times the medical costs and 5 times the deaths, found new research in ...

Nov 20, 2017

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Social mobile gaming boosts rehabilitation for physically impaired patients

The researchers from Imperial have designed a video game called Balloon Buddies, which is a tool that enables those recovering from conditions such as a stroke to engage and play together with healthy volunteers such as therapists ...

Nov 20, 2017

Changes in young people's sexual practices over the last 20 years revealed

Published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, the study describes changes in young people's sexual practices using nationally-representative data from the National Surveys of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal), the ...

Nov 20, 2017

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Many cancer survivors are living with PTSD

A recent study showed approximately one-fifth of patients with cancer experienced post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) several months after diagnosis, and many of these patients continued to live with PTSD years later. Published ...

Nov 20, 2017