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rearm-related injuries are a leading cause of injury and death among children and represent a significant public health concern," says Monika Goyal, M.D., M.S.C.E., director of research in the Division of Emergency Medicine at Children's National and senior study author. "This study provides compelling data that an evidence-based approach to public policy may help to reduce firearm-related injuries among children." The research team extracted data from the Nationwide Emergency Department Sample, the nation's largest such database, and included ED visits from 2009 to 2013 by patients younger than 21. The team excluded emergency visits due to air, pellet, BB or paintball guns because they are not governed by firearm legislation. They used state-level Brady gun law scores to calculate median regional scores as measures of firearm legislation strictness. During the five years covered by the study, there were 111,839 ED visits for pediatric firearm-related injur...

One intervention, sending caring postcards or letters following an emergency visit, is more effective and less expensive than usual care. The report appears in the September 15 issue of the journal  Psychiatric Services . According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States; 44,193 people died by suicide in the United States in 2015 (the most recent year for which statistics are available). One approach to reducing the suicide rate is to direct prevention strategies at high-risk groups or settings. An example is emergency departments, which according to the CDC, treat more than 500,000 people each year for self-harm injuries. "In the face of a gradually rising suicide rate, the need for effective prevention strategies is urgent," said NIMH Director Joshua Gordon, M.D., Ph.D. "These findings of cost-effectiveness add to the impetus for implementing these life-saving approaches. Importantly...

A malaria parasite (yellow) invading liver cells (pink/pink). Researchers from the Walter and Eliza Corridor Institute in Melbourne, Australia, have proven for the primary time that carbohydrates on the floor of malaria parasites play a crucial position in malaria's capability to contaminate mosquito and human hosts. The invention additionally suggests steps that will enhance the one malaria vaccine accredited to guard individuals towards Plasmodium falciparum malaria -- essentially the most lethal type of the illness. Credit score: WEHI.TV/Walter and Eliza Corridor Institute of Medical Analysis A global analysis crew has proven for the primary time that carbohydrates on the floor of malaria parasites play a crucial position in malaria's capability to contaminate mosquito and human hosts. The invention additionally suggests steps that will enhance the one malaria vaccine accredited to guard individuals towards  Plasmodium falciparum  malaria -- essentially the...