Who owned the gun in firearm suicides of men, women, and youth in five US states? - Barber C, Azrael D, Miller M, Hemenway D.
One way to reduce firearm suicide is to keep household guns away from a person at risk for suicide. To learn who owned (and presumably controlled access to) the guns used in suicide and which broad gun type they were, we examined National Violent Death Rep...
Source: SafetyLit - April 26, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Here are the egg dishes to get you egg-cited this month
April is the time to celebrate the versatility of fresh eggs. Food writer Casey Barber takes a look at great recipes and dishes made with eggs.
Source: CNN.com - Health - April 15, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Echoes of one million lost in the spaces they left behind
Put your son in Sherman Peebles' barber chair and along with a buzz you could count on Peebles, a sheriff’s deputy who cut hair as a sideline, to issue a fatherly warning about staying out of trouble. Now, seven months after the dapper sergeant died of COVID-19, life goes on at the Columbus, Georgia, shop owned by his best friend. But the aching emptiness of Peebles' absence lingers. The brotherly affection he brought to each day, gone missing. The jokes and stories that go untold. The pandemic has claimed nearly 1 million lives in the U.S., leaving empty spaces in homes and neighborhoods across the country, whethe...
Source: ABC News: Health - April 13, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news

The impact of virtual reality hypnosis on pain and anxiety caused by trauma: lessons learned from a clinical trial - Wiechman SA, Jensen MP, Sharar SR, Barber JK, Soltani M, Patterson DR.
This randomized, controlled trial tested the impact that hypnosis delivered through immersive virtual reality technology on background pain, anxiety, opioid use, and hospital length of stay in a sample of patients hospitalized for trauma. Participants were...
Source: SafetyLit - March 31, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Visual-spatial attentional performance identifies lower extremity injury risk in adolescent athletes - Avedesian JM, McPherson AL, Diekfuss JA, Barber Foss KD, Hogg J, Zuleger TM, Dufek JS, Myer GD.
OBJECTIVE: Strategies to identify lower extremity musculoskeletal (LEMSK) injury risk have been informed by prospectively identified biomechanical and neuromuscular risk factors. Emergent evidence suggests that cognitive and oculomotor performance may also...
Source: SafetyLit - March 25, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Global disability trajectories over the first decade following combat concussion - Donald CLM, Barber J, Johnson A, Patterson J, Temkin N.
OBJECTIVE: To examine global disability trajectories in US military with and without traumatic brain injury (TBI) over the first decade following deployment to identify risk profiles for better intervention stratification, hopefully reducing long-term cost...
Source: SafetyLit - March 11, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

"I must do this!": A latent profile analysis approach to understanding the role of irrational beliefs and motivation regulation in mental and physical health - Turner MJ, Miller A, Youngs H, Barber N, Brick NE, Chadha NJ, Chandler C, Coyle M, Didymus FF, Evans AL, Jones K, McCann B, Meijen C, Rossato CJL.
In the research concerning rational emotive behaviour therapy (REBT) in sport and exercise, irrational beliefs are proposed as a risk factor for health. Concurrent to this, researchers have also indicated that autonomous and controlled motivation, as propo...
Source: SafetyLit - March 2, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Cognitive outcome 1 year after mild traumatic brain injury: results from the TRACK-TBI Study - Christman Schneider AL, Huie JR, Boscardin WJ, Nelson L, Barber JK, Yaffe K, Diaz-Arrastia R, Ferguson AR, Kramer J, Jain S, Temkin N, Yuh E, Manley GT, Gardner RC.
The objectives of this study were to develop and establish concurrent validity of a clinically relevant definition of poor cognitive outcome 1 year after mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), to compare baseline characteristics acr...
Source: SafetyLit - February 21, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Neurosurgical trauma from e-scooter usage: a review of early case series in London and a review of the literature - Rashed S, Vassiliou A, Barber J.
BACKGROUND: Electric (E-)scooters have become increasingly popular as a means of environmentally friendly and convenient urban transport since 2017. Private use and now ride-sharing schemes are seen in major cities across the world. However, safety data ar...
Source: SafetyLit - January 19, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Traumatic brain injury in the elderly with high Glasgow coma scale and low injury severity scores: factors influencing outcomes - Bick H, Wasfie T, LaBond V, Hella JR, Pearson E, Barber KR.
BACKGROUND: Current trauma activation guidelines do not clearly address age as a risk factor when leveling trauma patients. Glasgow coma scale (GCS) and mode of injury play a major role in leveling trauma patients. We studied the above relationship in our ...
Source: SafetyLit - November 24, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news

The effect of subconcussive head impact exposure and jugular vein compression on behavioral and cognitive outcomes after a single season of high-school football: a prospective longitudinal trial - Narad ME, Epstein J, Peugh J, Barber Foss KD, Diekfuss JA, Bonnette S, Orban S, Yuan W, Dudley J, Dicesare CA, Reddington DL, Zhong W, Nissen KS, Shafer J, Avedesian JM, S.sky-Ganesh AB, Lloyd RS, Howell D, Myer GD.
This prospective longitudinal trial aimed to 1) determine the role of head impact exposure on behavioral/cognitive outcomes, and 2) assess the protective effect(s) of a jugular vein compression (JVC) collar on behavioral/cognitive outcomes following one se...
Source: SafetyLit - November 17, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Off-duty Baltimore officer getting haircut kills man suspected in three shootings
An off-duty Baltimore sergeant getting a haircut Saturday shot and killed a man who opened fire and fatally shot a barber, police said. #barber #shootings #sergeant
Source: Reuters: Health - November 14, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Off-duty police officer getting haircut shoots man suspected for Saturday shooting spree that left two dead
An off-duty police officer getting a haircut Saturday afternoon shot and killed a man who police say burst into the East Baltimore shop and shot a barber to death. Police believe the same man was... #shootingspree #barber #eastbaltimore #policeofficer #shootings
Source: Reuters: Health - November 14, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Novel Approaches in Tanzania Lead to HIV Services for Over 1.3 Million Clients
November 11, 2021More than 1.37 million clients have received high-quality voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) services for HIV-prevention in Tanzania over the past five years through IntraHealth International’sTohara Plus project, one of the most successful projects of its kind.ToharaPlus pioneered novel approaches using human-centered design to reach more clients with VMMC services, which lower a man’s risk of acquiring HIV through heterosexual sex by around 60%. Some of those approaches include:Strategically placed services.By engaging men where they work or spend a lot of time—such as barb...
Source: IntraHealth International - November 11, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: Tanzania Tohara Plus HIV & AIDS Community Engagement Source Type: news

Why a trip to the barber might help if you're feeling low
The Lions Barber Collective is a charity which trains barbers to recognise the symptoms of mental ill health, and was set up by Tom Chapman, a barber, after a friend committed suicide in 2014.
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 1, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

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