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Teenagers
A University of Minnesota survey showed that American Indian and Alaska-Native teenagers have a relatively high rate of suicide attempts, histories of physical and/or sexual abuse and sex without contraception. The survey of 13,454 American-Indian and Alaska Native teens revealed that 17% had attempted suicide; 10% reported physical abuse; and about 60% had had... »
Pediatricians
Yale researchers alerted pediatricians that there may be no biological validity and no predictive value to current criteria used to diagnose dyslexia. In a follow-up analysis of 414 children presented in The New England Journal of Medicine, they found that fewer than 50% of the children diagnosed as dyslexic in grade three were similarly... »
WHO Checklists can save lives
40 percent fewer deaths after surgery, the new WHO checklist in poor and rich countries. A simple checklist for surgery may be, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), millions of lives. Serious complications were received according to the WHO through the use of the list by about one-third, even deaths by 40 percent. There... »