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Total 413 results found since Jan 2013.
Setting the ground rules: use and practice of ground rules in child forensic interviews - Fessinger MB, McWilliams K, Bakth FN, Lyon TD.
Most child forensic interviewing protocols recommend that interviewers administer a series of ground rules to emphasize concepts that are important to accurately answering interview questions. Limited research has examined whether interviewers follow groun...
Source: SafetyLit - March 28, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
"Putting a new perspective on life": a qualitative grounded theory of posttraumatic growth following acquired brain injury - Lyon I, Fisher P, Gracey F.
This study sought to understand the process of developing posttraumatic growth (PTG) follo...
Source: SafetyLit - March 28, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
France blocks passengers on board bus from Italy after one falls ill
France on Monday blocked the passengers of a coach that had traveled from the Italian city of Milan to Lyon over concerns one Italian on board might be suffering from the coronavirus, local health authorities said.
Source: Reuters: Health - February 24, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
A comparative study of the physiological and socio-economic vulnerabilities to heat waves of the population of the metropolis of Lyon (France) in a climate change context - Alonso L, Renard F.
Increases in the frequency and intensity of heat waves are direct consequences of global climate change with a higher risk for urban populations due to the urban heat island effect. Reducing urban overheating is a priority, as is identifying the most vulne...
Source: SafetyLit - February 11, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Environmental Issues, Climate, Geophysics Source Type: news
The Coronavirus Outbreak Should Bring Out the Best in Humanity
Pandemics are perversely democratic. They’re nasty, lethal and sneaky, but they don’t discriminate. No matter your age, ethnicity, religion, gender, or nation, you’re a part of the pathogenic constituency.
That shared vulnerability, and the resulting human collectivism—a universal response to a universal threat—is newly and vividly evident in the face of the now-global outbreak of the novel coronavirus known as 2019-nCoV. As of writing, there have been over 30,000 diagnosed cases and over 630 related deaths. A virus that emerged in a single city, Wuhan, China—indeed, in a single crowded ...
Source: TIME: Health - February 8, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized 2019-nCoV Infectious Disease Source Type: news
Meet the Brilliant Minds Behind the First ICD
Mirowski: From WWII to Sinai Hospital
The story of how Mieczyslaw "Michel" Mirowski ended up in America where he conceived the idea of an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) is almost as incredible as the invention itself, if not more so. Mirowski was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1924. He grew up among the large Jewish population of Warsaw at that time, but when the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, 15-year-old Mirowski left his family and fled to Russia with a friend. He would be the only member of his family to survive World War II, according to a 2010 article...
Source: MDDI - February 3, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Amanda Pedersen Tags: Implants Source Type: news
Prehospital critical care is associated with increased survival in adult trauma patients in Scotland - Maddock A, Corfield AR, Donald MJ, Lyon RM, Sinclair N, Fitzpatrick D, Carr D, Hearns S.
BACKGROUND: Scotland has three prehospital critical care teams (PHCCTs) providing enhanced care support to a usually paramedic-delivered ambulance service. The effect of the PHCCTs on patient survival following trauma in Scotland is not currently known nat...
Source: SafetyLit - January 23, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Cameroon: Once Conjoined, Cameroonian Sisters Spend First Christmas As Regular Twins in Lyon
[RFI] Two Cameroonian girls born as conjoined twins, separated by doctors in Lyon in November, have spend their first Christmas as regular twins out of the hospital. Bissie and Eyenga Merveille are to return home to Cameroon in January.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 13, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Forensic interviewers' difficulty with invitations: faux invitations and negative recasting - Henderson HM, Russo N, Lyon TD.
An ongoing challenge for forensic interviewers is to maximize their use of invitations, such as requests that the child "tell me more about" details mentioned by the child. Examining 434 interviews with 4- to 12-year-old children questioned about abuse, th...
Source: SafetyLit - December 31, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Infants and Children Source Type: news
Roche announces positive Phase III study results for Tecentriq plus Cotellic and Zelboraf in people with previously untreated BRAF V600 mutation-positive advanced melanoma
Basel, 13 December 2019 - Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) today announced the Phase III IMspire150 study, in people with previously untreated BRAF V600 mutation-positive advanced melanoma, met its primary endpoint of progression-free survival (PFS). The study showed adding Tecentriq ® (atezolizumab) to Cotellic® (cobimetinib) and Zelboraf® (vemurafenib) helped to reduce the risk of disease worsening or death, compared to placebo plus Cotellic and Zelboraf. A significant and clinically meaningful improvement in PFS was demonstrated in the study. The safety profile observed in IMspire150 was consis...
Source: Roche Investor Update - December 13, 2019 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Road safety monitor 2019: Trends in marijuana use among Canadian drivers - Woods-Fry H, Vanlaar WGM, Lyon C, Brown S, Robertson RD.
This factsheet summarizes national trends from the Road Safety Monitor (RSM) regarding marijuana use among Canadian drivers. The RSM is an annual public opinion survey conducted by the Traffic Injury Research Foundation (TIRF) in partnership with Beer Cana...
Source: SafetyLit - December 10, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Children's concealment of a minor transgression: the role of age, maltreatment, and executive functioning - Williams S, McWilliams K, Lyon T.
This study examined the role of age, maltreatment status, and executive functioning on 752 4- to 9-year-old maltreated and nonmaltreated children's recall disclosure of a transgression in which the children appeared to have broken toys while playing with a...
Source: SafetyLit - December 2, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Importance and feasibility of an adapted set of implementation strategies in schools - Lyon AR, Cook CR, Locke J, Davis C, Powell BJ, Waltz TJ.
Implementation strategies are methods or techniques used to enhance the adoption, implementation, and sustainment of a new program or practice. Recent studies have facilitated implementation strategy prioritization by mapping strategies based on their feas...
Source: SafetyLit - November 27, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Universities in France and S ã o Paulo invest in international collaboration
(Funda ç ã o de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de S ã o Paulo) Research internationalization strategies was the topic of a roundtable at FAPESP Week France, in Lyon; representatives from USP, UNESP, UNICAMP, and French universities took part in the debate.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - November 22, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Team led by institute for basic research scientist publishes findings on TAF1 syndrome
(NYS Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities) An international research team led by Dr. Gholson Lyon of the New York State Office for People With Developmental Disabilities' Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities announced publication in Human Mutation of findings from its study of the rare disease TAF1 syndrome. The team previously identified the syndrome, caused by pathogenic variants involving the X-linked gene TAF1, in 11 families. In this recent study, the researchers identified an additional 27 families with the syndrome.
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - November 20, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: news
