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What to do while you're waiting for the ambulance
No one is prepared for a medical emergency, but when the unexpected happens, you can help make a bad situation better—especially if you're a bystander.
Aug 12, 2021
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News tagged with car accidents
Obstetrics & gynaecology
New study could help explain why some women develop mood-related disorders after oral contraceptive use
They are used by 150 million women worldwide and have been around for over 60 years. Oral contraceptives—like birth control pills—are part of many women's lives, often starting during puberty and early adolescence. Do ...
Jul 28, 2020
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Health
Doctor plans to withdraw life support in French right-to-die case
The doctor of a Frenchman whose family has kept him alive in a vegetative state for a decade has informed them that he plans to take the patient off life support this month, lawyers said Saturday.
May 12, 2019
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French court backs doctors in right-to-die case
A French court on Thursday upheld a decision by doctors to withdraw life support for a man kept alive in a vegetative state for a decade, after the latest legal challenge by the patient's parents in a divisive right-to-die ...
Jan 31, 2019
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Italy court sends right-to-die case to Constitutional Court
A court in Milan has asked Italy's Constitutional Court to rule in the case of a right-to-die advocate who brought a well-known DJ to an assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland to die after he was paralyzed in a car crash.
Feb 14, 2018
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Neuroscience
Better prediction of long-term consequences of whiplash trauma
Possible long-term consequences from a whiplash trauma can be effectively predicted if the injured persons are subdivided into different risk groups shortly after the car accident. This is shown by a Danish study that was ...
Jun 1, 2016
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At least 38 killed in snowstorm-related deaths (Update)
At least 38 people have died as a result of the mammoth snowstorm that pounded the eastern U.S. The deaths occurred in car accidents, from carbon monoxide poisoning, and from heart attacks while shoveling snow:
Jan 25, 2016
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At least 30 killed in snowstorm-related deaths (Update)
At least 30 people have died as a result of the mammoth snowstorm that pounded the eastern U.S. The deaths occurred in car accidents, from carbon monoxide poisoning, and from heart attacks while shoveling snow:
Jan 24, 2016
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A new approach to cut death toll of young people in road accidents
Too often in Australia we hear tragic stories of another young life cut short in a car accident and yet any attempts to dramatically reduce the death toll are not working.
Apr 24, 2014
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CDC: Motor vehicle occupant death rates down for children (Update)
(HealthDay)—The rate of motor vehicle occupant deaths among children decreased from 2002 to 2011, but one-third of all children who died were unrestrained, according to a report published in the Feb. 4 early-release issue ...
Feb 4, 2014
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