Amra Zalihic, M.D., Ph.D, Adna Zalihic Pita, M.D. We witness aggressive behaviors of patients towards health care workers more frequently. The health care reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina is still ongoing. For eleven years, family medicine is functioning (or, at least trying to function), in the way that is functioning in most western countries. Before […]
Sándor Kalmár, M.D., Ph.D. There is no other complex physical, biological, somatic, mental, psychological, psychiatric, cultural, social and spiritual phenomenon like suicide. We can never be traced back to one single reason. There is always large number of biological, psychological-psychiatric, historical, social and cultural factors which play role in its development but the strongest suicide […]
Steven Lippmann, M.D. There exists a wide-spread impression in America contending that procession of a firearm provides a good measure of self-protection. Is that really true? Kentucky publicly documents all violent deaths in this state. The Kentucky Violent Death Reporting System records are available on-line (kvdrs.ky.gov). They documented an average of 536 gun-related deaths in […]
Kuwert P, Braehler E, Freyberger HJ, Glaesmer H.J Nerv Ment Dis. 2012 Oct;200(10):911-4. AbstractUp to now, it has remained unclear whether displacement itself is the pathogenetic factor for the impairment of mental health in uprooted individuals or whether the effect is mediated by the amount of traumatic events experienced during forced displacement and/or by the […]
Currier JM, Holland JM, Allen D.J Trauma Stress. 2012 Nov 5. doi: 10.1002/jts.21752. [Epub ahead of print] AbstractAttachment theory has become a primary framework for understanding adjustment to traumas. In a convenience sample of 157 U.S. service members from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars seeking health care services at a Veterans Administration (VA) hospital, this […]
Silberstein SD, Holland S, Freitag F, Dodick DW, Argoff C, Ashman E; Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Headache Society.Neurology. 2012 Apr 24;78(17):1337-45 AbstractOBJECTIVE: To provide updated evidence-based recommendations for the preventive treatment of migraine headache. The clinical question addressed was: What pharmacologic therapies are proven effective for migraine […]
Horlocker TT, Wedel DJ, Rowlingson JC, Enneking FK, Kopp SL, Benzon HT, Brown DL, Heit JA, Mulroy MF, Rosenquist RW, Tryba M, Yuan CS.Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2010 Jan-Feb;35(1):64-101. AbstractThe actual incidence of neurologic dysfunction resulting from hemorrhagic complications associated with neuraxial blockade is unknown. Although the incidence cited in the literature is estimated to […]
Garber CE, Blissmer B, Deschenes MR, Franklin BA, Lamonte MJ, Lee IM, Nieman DC, Swain DP; American College of Sports Medicine.Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2011 Jul;43(7):1334-59. AbstractThe purpose of this Position Stand is to provide guidance to professionals who counsel and prescribe individualized exercise to apparently healthy adults of all ages. These recommendations also may […]
Jacobson MEEmergency Medicine News, 2012, 34(11A). doi: 10.1097/01.EEM.0000422901.91264.53 Excerpt.I am an emergency physician with an apolitical message in this rather politically charged, polarized time in our country. I have worked for some time in this profession, and have noticed a disturbing trend about which I must speak out
Leo Sher, M.D. The Gerry Schwartz and Heather Reisman 3rd International Conference on Pediatric Chronic Diseases, Disability and Human Development was held in the Ramada Hotel in Jerusalem, Israel, on December 2-5, 2012. About 400 clinicians and researchers from Israel, United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Hong Kong, Ukraine, Australia, and other countries participated in […]
