News tagged with preventable health problems

Study identifies protective factors that help women recover from childhood violence

Children who witness domestic violence are more likely to be in abusive intimate relationships and experience psychological problems such as post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in adulthood, according to the Centers for ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jul 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Suicide rises and falls with economy: US study

More Americans have killed themselves in times of financial hardship than in times of prosperity, said a US study of suicide rates and the business cycle from 1928 to 2007 released Thursday.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Apr 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Diagnostic errors: The new focus of patient safety experts

Johns Hopkins patient safety experts say it's high time for diagnostic errors to get the same attention from medical institutions and caregivers as drug-prescribing errors, wrong-site surgeries and hospital-acquired infections. ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0