MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'homicide'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:27:45 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4828816&cid=t_100311_87_f&fid=34765&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhcrenewal.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F05%2Felectronic-medical-records-and.html There are many parallels between the health IT sector (with known injuries and deaths [1]; deliberate lack of regulatory enforcement in part due to regulatory capture [2]; willfull blindness and special pleadings by vendors and purchasers regarding the dangers of the devices [3]; 'certification' standards that ignore safety [4], and other cavalier practices), and this tragic story below:Swimming pool maker pleads guilty to criminally negligent homicideSource: Claims Journal "Pool Company Admits Guilt in Connecticut Boy's Drowning" John Christoffersen, April 15, 2011After the tragic drowning of a 6-year-old Connecticut boy in 2007, his parents have brought a lawsuit against the swimming pool company. The lawsuit against Shoreline Pools detailed statistics of pool entrapment deaths and injur... Health Care Renewal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4828816 Sat, 14 May 2011 11:52:00 +0100 4828816 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4382764&cid=t_100311_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fhealthcare-homicide-safer-to-work-in-a-prison-than-in-a-hospital%2F2011.01.21 There’s been a lot of stories in the news lately about homicides committed in hospitals. Just out of curiosity, I went to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) website and pulled some data from their Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries. It confirmed what I suspected — that homicides of workers in hospitals have increased at twice the rate as correctional facilities, where worker homicides have remained stable. Here’s the graph I was able to make from the BLS data: The red bars (hospital murders) are up to six and seven homicides per year while the blue bars (correctional facility murders) have remained stable at about three per year. This is only for the employees who have been murdered, not all murder victims. When we consider the cost and repercussions of increased ... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4382764 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 18:00:00 +0100 4382764 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4266268&cid=t_100311_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2FATItVCZMAC0%2F For years, there were contentious debates about links between certain prescription meds, notably antidepressants, and suicidal behavior. Now, the focus is turning to violent behavior directed toward others. And a new study is linking 31 widely prescribed drugs - most notably, the Chantix anti-smoking pill - with 1,527 serious acts of violence, such as physical abuse, physical assault and homicide. The study, which was published in PLoS One, identified 484 drugs that accounted for 780,169 serious adverse event reports of all kinds, including 1,937 cases meeting the violence criteria determined by the researchers. There were 387 reports of homicide, 404 physical assaults, 27 cases indicating physical abuse, 896 homicidal ideation reports and 223 cases described as violence-related symptoms. ... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4266268 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:31:34 +0100 4266268 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3899634&cid=t_100311_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2FQV82PczRStE%2F What happens when a university is bound up in the outcome of an industry clinical trial? What does it say when university researchers are actively recruiting patients for a trial while also accepting consulting or speaking fees from the same drugmaker sponsoring the study? Is the research furthering commercial needs more so than scientific needs? And how are patients protected in such situations? These are among the questions explored in a sobering piece in Mother Jones magazine by University of Minnesota bioethicist Carl Elliott. He focuses on the sorry plight of Mary Weiss, who lost her 26-year-old son, Dan, while he was enrolled - over her strenuous objections - in a trial at the University of Minnesota (yes, the same school) to compare AstraZeneca’s Seroquel antipsychotic with ri... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3899634 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:58:26 +0100 3899634 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1773186&cid=t_100311_111_f&fid=34834&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FMentalNurse%2F%7E3%2F386380266%2F Furthering the “good news” story that appeared on MN mid-August, and the notable absence of any significant media coverage in the UK of the apparent decline in mental health related homicide, I was listening to an ABC Radio presentation here in Oz which can be downloaded in podcast from here with one (maybe more?) of the authors, of the BMJ article, Matthew Large. I first thought it was odd that such a report should get better media coverage in Oz than the country of origin - but having looked - 3 of the 4 authors are Oz/NZ based. Further resources can be found here here and the full BMJ in iPaper for - here. (Source: Mental Nurse) Mental Nurse blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1773186 Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:24:49 +0100 1773186 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1560799&cid=t_100311_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F07%2F01%2Fguns-are-a-lethal-choice%2F I don’t mean to be insensitive to the potential for destructive nature of a gun in the home, but there was a spate of news articles yesterday regurgitating a statistic which is neither new nor news — that more than half of firearm deaths in the U.S. are suicides. From the Associated Press: Public-health researchers have concluded that in homes where guns are present, the likelihood that someone in the home will die from suicide or homicide is much greater. This isn’t news, however, as for the past 25 years, 80% of the time suicide has outranked homicides and accidents as the number one handgun killer. Why do so many people turn to a handgun when they want to end their lives? Perhaps it’s because nothing else in this world is quite like a handgun. A handgun&#82... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1560799 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:06:48 +0100 1560799 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=780010&cid=t_100311_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F140666335%2F The confession that Dr. Karen McCarron made in a Peoria hospital in May of 2006 has been ruled admissable to use during her trial, the Peoria-Journal Star reports today. In the videotaped confession, McCarron is alleged to have said that she was overwhelmed, that she “wanted a life without autism,” and “wanted to take the autism out” of her three-year-old daughter, Katherine McCarron. Karen McCarron’s attorney, Marc Wolfe, had previously argued that the videotape, made while she was on suicide watch after overdosing on Tylenol, should not be shown because of her “questionable emotional state”; in May of this year, doctors ruled that she seemed “lucid.” Wolfe has also argued that showing McCarron’s taped confession would be a viol... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=780010 Sat, 04 Aug 2007 16:32:36 +0100 780010