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Federal plan emphasizes heroin/opioid treatment over incarceration
The Obama administration will spend an additional $13.4 million fighting opioid and heroin abuse, emphasizing treatment over law enforcement. The...
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More bicyclists, more fatalities
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Surgical bolt cutters quickly cut titanium ring
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Emergency intervention did not reduce women’s heavy drinking, partner violence
Key clinical point: A brief motivational intervention in the ED failed to reduce recurrent episodes of heavy drinking or intimate-partner violence...
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Tool to predict abusive head trauma validated
The clinical tool Predicting Abusive Head Trauma (PredAHT) can support medical professionals in determining the likelihood that a pediatric head...
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Corpus callosum functioning, structural integrity impaired in some TBI patients
Half of the pediatric TBI patients studied had significantly slower interhemispheric transfer times than the control group.
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Player-to-player contact, not ‘heading,’ is main source of soccer concussions
Head contact with other players, not with the ball, is the main source of concussions among high-school soccer players of both sexes.
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VIDEO: Anticipatory guidance can reduce chronic postconcussion syndrome
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Idarucizumab reverses dabigatran’s anticoagulant effects
Key clinical point: The investigational monoclonal antibody idarucizumab reversed the anticoagulant effects of dabigatran. Major finding:...
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SAEM: Pelvic CT may not be needed to diagnose intra-abdominal injury in children
CT limited to the radiographic abdomen – the region between the dome of the diaphragm to the top of the iliac crest – may be able to capture the...
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Decreased physical activity following car accident increases chance of persistent pain in older adults
Older adults who had a decrease in physical activity in the weeks following a motor vehicle collision were more likely to experience moderate to...