Soldiers Exposed To Gunshot Noise Need Better Hearing Protection

A new study published in the January issue of the medical journal Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery strongly recommends better hearing protection for soldiers to// prevent permanent long-term hearing loss that can be caused by exposure to the sound of gunshots. The study measured the imp...

Young offenders' health critical to rehabilitation

... of issues such as: frequent substance abuse; head injury; exposure to direct trauma injuries or exposure to violence (eg, stab wounds, gunshot wounds); hepatitis C infection and liver disease; and exposure to sexually transmissible diseases. young offenders have a higher death rat...

First U.S. Face Transplant Recipient Recounts Ordeal

...004 when her husband shot her in the face, then turned the gun on himself. He went to prison for seven years. According to the Associated Press , the gunshot destroyed Culp's nose, cheeks, the roof of her mouth and one eye and left hundreds of bone fragments and shotgun pellets lodged in her face. Only her ...

Study finds most adolescents sent to group homes still involved with drugs/crime seven years later

...d. When attempts were made to re-contact these young people in 2007, researchers learned that 12 of the young people had died, including seven from gunshot wounds. Among the 383 participants who completed the final interview, 36 percent had used hard drugs in the past year and 27 percent reported five or ...

Mexico Presents Flawed Theory in Shooting Death of American Journalist

...iscovery that one of the bullets was a ricochet. Brad Will died of gunshot wounds while covering protests in Oaxaca in October 2006. According to...xico (PGR) on past cases. The PGR claims that Brad Will was killed by a gunshot originating in his immediate area. A ricochet off an intermediate target su...

Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy announces new findings

...ith Andre Waters and John Grimsley. Waters and Long committed suicide. Grimsley, an avid and experienced gunsman, died in 2008 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound that the medical examiner ruled as accidental. All six NFL CTE sufferers died by the age of 50. Damien Nash, who died in 2007 at the age of 24...

A Study In This Month's Journal Of Nervous And Mental Disease Reveals Hope For Recovery From Suicidal Thinking And Treatment Resistant Mental Illness

...hey often have made one or another serious suicide attempt -- having jumped off some high place and survived, or having survived an overdose or even a gunshot wound." According to the study, such radical progress didn't happen overnight. The median period for recovery was 7.2 years for self-mutilation;...

Groundbreaking, inexpensive, pocket-sized ultrasound device can help treat cancer, relieve arthritis

...eutic ultrasound device, developed by a Cornell graduate student, fits in the palm of a hand, is battery-powered and packs enough punch to stabilize a gunshot wound or deliver drugs to brain cancer patients. It is wired to a ceramic probe, called a transducer, and it creates sound waves so strong they instan...

Ten Extraordinary Americans Recognized for Local Innovation in Improving Health and Health Care

...ung people through a reenactment of the final day of a 16-year-old multiple gunshot victim -- from the moment he arrives at the trauma center to when his body ... patients physically and spiritually. Charles also intervenes directly with gunshot patients while they are in the hospital since they have a one in seven chan...

Out of Iraq emerges hope for those with the severest of head injuries

... assistant professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Rochester Medical Center who is also a major in the U.S. Army Reserve. "Here we might see gunshot wounds to the head, or severe injuries from motor vehicle accidents, but we don't see blast injuries, and so neurosurgeons haven't really had much exp...

Gunshot in Medical Dictionary

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...rology for tularemia ... FORENSIC SEROLOGY . PAINT CHIP COMPARISON. gunshot RESIDUE ANALYSIS. gunshot RESIDUE ANALYSIS ... FORENSIC SEROLOGY . Forensic serology is the applic...

Autopsy

... Word Games ... In 1963, Texas law required that the autopsy of a person murdered in Texas was ... 2 Official findings of the autopsy . 2.1 The gunshot wound in the back ... An authentic detailed narrative account of a routine postmortem examination ( autopsy ) as performed by a pathologist on a p...

Gunshot in Biological News

Multiple route bone marrow stem cell injections show promise to treat spinal cord injury

...ntrol. Finally, the researchers noted that one of their cases suffered a gunshot wound and that their study marked the first time a gunshot wound victim had received BMC transplants through multiple routes. "It is...

Novel veterinary procedure detecting life-threatening injuries touted

...cialist in veterinary emergency and critical care, evaluated 145 dogs within 24 hours of their injury which included automobile accidents and bite and gunshot wounds. High accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity was found when comparing TFAST to chest X-ray findings. TFAST was used to successfully diagnos...

PNAS study reveals why organs fail following massive trauma

...m a sabertooth tiger attack, meant immediate death for the primitive human. Modern man is more likely to survive severe injury caused by a car crash, gunshot or fall thanks to high-tech emergency medicine. Unfortunately, the body does not know what to do when it survives an injury that would have been fatal...

Scientists discover the body's marijuana-like compounds are crucial for stress-induced pain relief

...Parma, also in Italy. All were crucial in designing and synthesizing the enzyme inhibitor. Scientists have long known that injured athletes or even gunshot victims have a period of time in which the body's pain reaction is delayed. This effect is called "stress-induced analgesia." By the mid-1990s, resear...

Gunshot in Biological Technology

Advanced Technologies and Wireless Telecommunications Enhance Care and Medical Training at the Ryder Trauma Center in Miami

...e than 8,000 emergency patients per year -- approx. 4, 000 at the Ryder Trauma Center. Approximately 30 percent of the general admissions result from gunshot wounds, stabbings or falls and 70 percent are the result of blunt trauma, vehicular accidents and various other causes. Children make up approx. 10 p...

Serving Those Who Serve Our Country: Medical Device Company Answers the Call of a U.S. Combat Hospital in Iraq

...he VTI Doppler System just before incurring a "mass casualty" in which the Doppler was used on several patients undergoing surgery including once on a gunshot wound victim. "It couldn't have come at a more perfect time!" SGT Maddy wrote. "Thank you seems such an understatement for our gratitude!" The Sur...