The VA’s suicide prevention strategy will fail

Tue, 09/17/2019 - 07:48

militarytimes.com - The suicide rate for young adults was 17 per 100,000 population in 2017, while the suicide rate for veterans 18-39 is over 50 per 100,000. The VA strategy says, “Suicide…

Category: Science

How animal research is helping fight antibiotic resistance | Imperial News | Imperial College London

Tue, 09/17/2019 - 07:30

imperial.ac.uk - We explore how animal research is playing a vital role in the battle against antibiotic resistant superbugs. People do not expect to die from a simple infection. But that might…

Category: Science

Health Insurance That Doesn’t Cover the Bills Has Flooded the Market Under Trump

Tue, 09/17/2019 - 06:59

bloomberg.com - Early one Friday morning two years ago, David Diaz woke up his wife, Marisia, and told her he didn’t feel right. He asked her to pray with him. Their son called 911, and within…

Category: Business

Promoting physical activity to patients

Tue, 09/17/2019 - 05:52

bmj.com - Christine Haseler, general practitioner1, Ranulf Crooke, general practitioner2, Tobias Haseler, general practitioner specialty trainee3 1Hucclecote Surgery, Gloucester, UK 2Hilary Cottage…

Category: Science

Doctors’ exodus now more alarming, says NMA

Tue, 09/17/2019 - 01:13

punchng.com - Tunde Odesola, Dayo Ojerinde, Godwin Isenyo, Sampson Itode, Ademola Babalola and Raphael Ede Hindered by poor conditions of Nigeria’s health care, bad remuneration and deteriorating…

Category: World

A Startling Number of Women Say the First Time They Had Sex Was Rape

Tue, 09/17/2019 - 00:39

thecut.com - An estimated 6.5 percent of American women’s first sexual experience was rape, according to a nationally representative study published today in The Journal of the American Medical…

Category: Science

How Oregon Built A Transgender Medical Complex On Junk Science

Mon, 09/16/2019 - 22:17

thefederalist.com - As a group of suburban Portland psychiatric nurses sat for training in late 2016, they had no idea they were witnessing a paradigm shift in public health policy. They simply…

Category: Science

Overdoses Linked to Fake Pain Pills Draw Little Attention — Pain News Network

Mon, 09/16/2019 - 17:30

painnewsnetwork.org - “The extent of circulation of these fake pills is unknown; however, they had been consumed by several of the people who died,” Santa Clara Public Health Director Sara Cody, MD,…

Category: Health

The US sent bomb-sniffing dogs to Jordan. Now they're dying from poor treatment

Mon, 09/16/2019 - 17:15

cnn.com - This has led to persistent health problems in Jordan, the largest recipient in the program with 61 active bomb-sniffer dogs. Other countries with fewer dogs include Thailand, Morocco,…

Category: World

Facebook removed doctors' fact-check of false anti-abortion video because Ted Cruz complained

Mon, 09/16/2019 - 12:33

salon.com - Facebook removed a fact-check authored by three doctors rebutting an anti-abortion video’s false claims because Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and other Republicans complained in a letter to CEO…

Category: Technology