A father ’s hope for his son’s life
Juan and Fredy in 2017. Juan was looking forward to having his son, Fredy, 14, finally come home to live with him. The teenager had been living under the care of his grandmother since he was a toddler. But on that long-awaited homecoming day, Juan was quickly jarred from feeling great joy to grave concern. “When I saw his face, one side looked very different from the other and his lip was swollen,” says Juan. “He admitted right away that his face had been hurting.” Juan remembered that the last time he’d seen his son — more than one year ago — Fredy’s face had looked slightly different then too. But whateve...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - April 12, 2017 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Kat J. McAlpine Tags: Diseases & Conditions Our Patients’ Stories Dr. Cameron Trenor Dr. Carolyn Rogers Dr. Darren Orbach Dr. Reza Rahbar Dr. Salim Afshar interventional radiology juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma tumor Source Type: news

Earth Doesn't Really Have Any Protections In Place From Asteroids
It’s the stuff of science fiction: Scientists discover that an asteroid is heading for Earth, and we don’t have any measures in place to prevent the space rock from hitting us. But this scenario is actually more plausible than many people realize. There are about 15,000 asteroids in our immediate galactic neighborhood. On March 2, astronomers at the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona spotted a 10-foot-wide space rock that passed Earth, “diving in closer than many communications and weather satellites,” Space.com reports. The asteroid came within 9,000 miles of Earth, according to NASA&rsq...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - March 10, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: news

Development of an instrument for community-level health related social capital among Japanese older people: The JAGES Project - Saito M, Kondo N, Aida J, Kawachi I, Koyama S, Ojima T, Kondo K.
BACKGROUND: We developed and validated an instrument to measure community-level social capital based on data derived from older community dwellers in Japan. METHODS: We used cross-sectional data from the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study, a nat...
Source: SafetyLit - February 14, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news

Oral health and incident depressive symptoms: JAGES Project Longitudinal Study in Older Japanese - Yamamoto T, Aida J, Kondo K, Fuchida S, Tani Y, Saito M, Sasaki Y.
OBJECTIVES: To determine whether oral health status predicts depressive symptoms in older Japanese people. DESIGN: Longitudinal study. SETTING: Twenty-four municipalities in Japan. PARTICIPANTS: Community-dwelling individuals aged 65 years and olde...
Source: SafetyLit - February 14, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news

Intensive care, eternal thanks
An unprovoked assault outside a Manchester nightclub changed Matthew Edgington’s life for ever. Several years on, his father John says he and his family still feel a debt of gratitude to the many health service staff who saved his son’s life. Saturday 28 November 2009: John Edgington and his wife had been out for a meal to celebrate his 61st birthday. Their son Matthew, then 25, who had just started a new sales job, had played football in the afternoon, bought some new clothes and gone off clubbing with friends in Manchester. At about 3am, the phone rang. It was one of Matthew’s friends. A six-mile drive from Bury, a...
Source: UNISON Health care news - February 6, 2017 Category: UK Health Authors: Martin Cullen Tags: Article health NHS public service champions thank your champions Source Type: news

Student nurses receive ‘mental health first aid’ training
A project training student nurses in “mental health first aid” has proved so successful that it is to be rolled out across all healthcare courses by a university in the Midlands.
Source: Nursing Times - January 27, 2017 Category: Nursing Source Type: news

Will NASA's New Asteroid Intruder Alert System Warn Us In Time Of Incoming Danger?
Do you lie awake at night fearing the possibility that life as we know it could suddenly end if Earth is hit by an asteroid or comet? With the intention of preventing that from happening, the good folks at NASA have devised a collision-bound asteroid early detection system. Utilizing constantly fed data supplied by global telescopes, this Near Earth Asteroid Scout computer program, or NEAScout, searches for any growing threat to Earth from an approaching space rock. Earlier this week, when an asteroid came close to Earth, the Scout system calculated it would pass our planet by more than 300,000 miles without posing a risk,...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - November 4, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news

A three month journey from the icu to return to work following carbon monoxide poisoning: a case report - Aida JT, Tran DA.
[Abstract unavailable] Language: en...
Source: SafetyLit - October 1, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Elsevier Announces Winners of the 2016 Reaxys PhD Prize
Three Young Chemistry Researchers are Recognized for Their Innovative and Original Research Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced the three winners of the 2016 Reaxys PhD Prize at its annual Symposium held in conjunction with the New Scientist Live festival in London. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20160926/411703 ) Celebrating top research by leading young chemists across the globe, the Reaxys PhD Prize recognizes innovative and original research in chemistry, with an emphasis on synthesis. Since its inception seven years ago, the Re...
Source: News from STM - September 28, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news

Skin Deep: 3 Top Facialists and What They ’ re Recommending for Summer Skin
If the season has you hot and bothered, these celebrity experts have some tips for you.
Source: NYT Health - August 1, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: BEE SHAPIRO Tags: Skin Darden, Shani Bicaj, Aida Louise, Georgia Facials Cosmetics and Toiletries Sunscreen Source Type: news

Experience of childhood abuse and later number of remaining teeth in older Japanese: a life-course study from Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study project - Matsuyama Y, Fujiwara T, Aida J, Watt RG, Kondo N, Yamamoto T, Kondo K, Osaka K.
OBJECTIVEs From a life-course perspective, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) such as childhood abuse are known risk factors for adult diseases and death throughout life. ACEs could also cause poor dental health in later life because they could induce...
Source: SafetyLit - July 28, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

What’s the Story Behind This Iconic Photo?
Many have come across this photo before, as it has more than once made the rounds on blogs, Facebook, Twitter and other social media channels. But the historic image deserves more than just a passing glance, as it speaks volumes about the the changing roles and importance of  women and the American Red Cross during World War II. Taken on January 15, 1945, seven months after the D-Day Invasion at Normandy, the photo captures a United States Coast Guard-manned barge unloading its passengers onto a beach in the Riviera Region of Southern France. These passengers – Red Cross staff – arrived ready to “carry out their d...
Source: Red Cross Chat - June 23, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Erin Ferris Tags: History war women WWII Source Type: news

Mental health ‘first aid’ for teachers focus of new study
Researchers from the University of Bristol have begun a trial to find out how well a training and support package for teachers works in recognising and combatting mental health problems.
Source: University of Bristol news - April 25, 2016 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Health, Research; Faculty of Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Social and Community Medicine, Institutes, Elizabeth Blackwell; Press Release Source Type: news

Can community social cohesion prevent posttraumatic stress disorder in the aftermath of a disaster? A natural experiment from the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami - Hikichi H, Aida J, Tsuboya T, Kondo K, Kawachi I.
In the aftermath of a disaster, the risk of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is high. We sought to examine whether the predisaster level of community social cohesion was associated with a lower risk of PTSD after the earthquake and tsunami in Tohoku, J...
Source: SafetyLit - April 11, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Community-Based Prevention Source Type: news

UN and partner agency inaugurate first child-friendly spaces in West Bank refugee camp
The first ever child-friendly spaces – a football pitch and a playground – were inaugurated today in Aida refugee camp in the West Bank’s town of Bethlehem by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and the Lajee Center, a community-based grassroots creative cultural centre.
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - February 17, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

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