Mortgage rates surge past 7%, reaching highest level since November
Mortgage rates soared this week, breaching the key 7% threshold and extending America’s home affordability crisis. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 7.10% in the week ending April 18, up from 6.88% the previous week, according to Freddie Mac data released Thursday. A year ago, the average…#freddiemac #federalreserve #samkhater #freddiemacs #treasury #nar #lawrenceyun (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Doctors Need to Get Better at Recognizing Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy
Whether fictional or fact-based, Munchausen syndrome by proxy grips the public. Media depictions in The Sixth Sense and Sharp Objects and real-life news coverage of Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s December 2023 release from jail are hard to look away from. The most well-known cases—real or dramatized—are often the starkest ones, but Munchausen by proxy comes in subtler, harder-to-detect forms too.
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“The media are fascinated, but they tend to depict the most extreme cases,” says Dr. Marc D. Feldman, distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Ass...
Source: TIME: Health - April 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Sarah Klein Tags: Uncategorized freelance healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Arizona doctors unlikely to perform illegal abortions even if they won't be prosecuted
Attorney General Kris Mayes' promise that she won't prosecute doctors for violating the soon-enforceable abortion ban likely isn't enough to persuade doctors to break the law, Arizona abortion providers tell Axios Phoenix. Why it matters: Even with potential legislative and legal interventions,…#krismayes #arizona #katiehobbs #mayes #ronaldyunis #acaciawomencenter #axiosphoenix #yunis #deshawntaylor (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Bitcoin Developers Prevail as Craig Wright Ends Lawsuit in UK High Court
Craig Wright has officially discontinued a lawsuit through his holding company, Tulip Trading, against 12 Bitcoin developers and others in the UK High Court. This marks the end of a nearly decade-long period of legal confrontations that many viewed as a campaign of harassment and intimidation. The…#craigwright #tuliptrading #bitcoin #ukhighcourt #identitytrial #satoshinakamoto #bitcoindefenseorg #norway #alexandergunning #kc (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Drunk driving bill could change law for millions
Federal lawmakers are being urged to lower the blood alcohol limit for drivers under a potential new bill intending to curb the rising trend in drunk-driving deaths. Campaigners are pushing for the blood alcohol content (BAC) limit to be pushed down to 0.05 from 0.08, citing the rising fatalities…#bac #capitol #clear05 #nbcconnecticut #hawaii #utah #democrats #republicans (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Wall Street Steered Billions to Blacklisted Chinese Companies, House Probe Finds
The investigation focused on BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, and MSCI, a major compiler of stock indexes. Both firms say they violated no laws.#blackrock #msci (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
CNN Legal Analyst Calls for Trump to Be Jailed for Violating Gag Order: ‘People Need Consequences’
CNN legal analyst Joey Jackson told Jim Acosta that the judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial should put him in jail for violating a gag order. On Wednesday, the Republican nominee criticized potential jurors in his New York criminal trial, despite a gag order from…#joeyjackson #jimacosta #donaldtrump #juanmerchan #trump #truthsocial #jessewaters #acosta #secretservice #cnnlegal (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Huge New Stock Sale Sends Lithium Americas (TSE:LAC) Plummeting
Supply and demand might be one of the oldest laws in economics, and for Canadian mining stock Lithium Americas (TSE:LAC), it’s just as inviolable a...#lithiumamericas #tse (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Suit Claims ACA Scheme Targeted Low-Income Consumers Suit Claims ACA Scheme Targeted Low-Income Consumers
A new lawsuit alleged that consumers lost access to their doctors or medications and faced financial costs in the switching scheme.KFF Health News (Source: Medscape Critical Care Headlines)
Source: Medscape Critical Care Headlines - April 18, 2024 Category: Intensive Care Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care News Source Type: news
Impact assessment of mandatory safety device installation for gas stoves - Saito S, Kawamura H.
Numerous fire accidents have occurred in Japan owing to food overheating when cooking on gas stoves because users left the cooking area unattended. In response, authorities enacted a legal revision mandating temperature sensor installation on gas stove bur... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 18, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Burns, Electricity, Explosions, Fire, Scalds Source Type: news
Ethical-legal dilemmas of nursing practice in emergencies and disasters: a scoping review - Duarte ACS, Chicharo SCR, Silva TASM, Oliveira AB.
OBJECTIVE: To map the ethical-legal dilemmas related to nursing practice in emergency and disaster situations. METHOD: A scoping review developed in accordance with the JBI method, whose information sources were accessed in databases, in addition t... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 18, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Healers that hurt: a scoping review of media reports of cases of rape in healthcare settings - Okonji AM, Ishola AG, Ayamolowo LB, Femi-Akinlosotu OM, Mapayi B, Folayan MO.
BACKGROUND: Sexual assault occurring within healthcare settings represents a significant breach of public trust. This scoping review aimed to highlight the profile of people raped, those who committed the rape within the health facilities, and the legal ac... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 18, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
The impact of scaffolded and non-scaffolded suicidal virtual human interaction training on clinician emotional self-awareness, empathic communication, and clinical efficacy - Yao H, Gomes de Siqueira A, Rogers ML, Bloch-Elkouby S, Lawrence O, Sarli G, Foster A, Mitelman SA, Galynker I, Lok B.
BACKGROUND: Clinicians working with patients at risk of suicide often experience high stress, which can result in negative emotional responses (NERs). Such negative emotional responses may lead to less empathic communication (EC) and unintentional rejectio... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 18, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Rural American farmers' perceptions of crime, safety and policing - Peterson JR, Ward KC, Lawrie M.
PURPOSE The purpose is to understand how farmers in rural American communities perceive crime, safety and policing. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH An online survey, adapted from a version used in Victoria, Australia (Harkness, 2017), was modified and ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 18, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news
The synergistic effects of risk-principle adherence in the supervision and treatment of individuals who have sexually offended - Miller HA, Toman EL, Pederson K.
Prior literature highlights the effectiveness of the Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR) risk principle when providing community supervision and treatment to general justice-involved individuals and special populations such as individuals convicted of a sexual of... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 18, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news
