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17 Kid Inflicted Injuries New Parents Know All Too Well
Pound for pound kids are the most dangerous people on the planet.
How Some Patients Fake Illness or Injury and Get Away With It
People faking illness and disability cost healthcare millions annually. Are any of them your patients?
Tell Us How You Ended Up in the ER with a Ridiculous Holiday-Related Injury
It’s the most wonderful — and accident-prone? — time of the year. We want to know about those holiday-related injuries that had you shaking your head.
What Kinds of Injuries Require a Hospital Stay?
Accidents of all kinds can result in injury, but not all injuries require a person to stay in a hospital for treatment. Certain injuries are far more likely to result in a hospital stay than others, according to data from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Common injuries that require a hospital stay include: fractures, brain injuries, poisonings, and injuries caused by slip and…
5 Surprising Causes Of Injuries During The Holidays
Avoid these mistakes and save yourself an emergency room visit.
How to Determine if Your Child Suffered a Brain Injury
Whenever a child suffers damage to the skull, brain, scalp or any other tissue or blood vessels in the head, you need to be wary of brain injuries. A traumatic brain injury (TBI) is determined on the severity of the child’s injury. Head injuries can be as minor as a bump or bruise to the head or as severe as a concussion, internal bleeding, broken skull bones, or damage to the brain. The CDC reports…
How to avoid cold-weather illnesses and injuries, according to a local ER doctor
What You Should Know about Childhood Injury Cases
There is nothing more heartrending than seeing a child injured, and for the parents it can be devastating. This is why prevention concerns all of us. Millions of children suffer some kind of injury…
Introduction to Child Injury Prevention Course
Imagine a world where all kids have a chance to grow up healthy and safe; where kids can reach their potential and become whatever they dream to be. Learn mo...
Consumer Health Tips: Keep on Moving to Fight Diabetes
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Back to School Tips: Engaging with Your Child
Stop The Hurt is an educational resource for all people as they seek to develop positive relationships with peers, partners, family, and themselves. We believe all relationships should be based on mutual respect and equality. Our hope is to create conversations around consent, healthy relationships, peaceful communication, and self-compassion. Together we can StopTheHurt
Physicians can't take things personally. Here are some tips.
Having that level of thick skin is not only important for dealing with problems more successfully, but also makes you less prone to getting upset yourself.
National Child Injury Prevention Week
Children can be unpredictable, but child injury is not. Research shows us how and when injuries happen and who they’re most likely to affect.
ER visits for brain injuries increase
More and more people are showing up to emergency rooms for traumatic brain injuries, like concussions.
Challenge to brain injury guideline care
A randomized controlled trial has cast doubt on whether it is necessary to routinely place an intraparenchymal pressure monitor in patients with severe traumatic brain injury.
Trauma-Informed Practices in Early Childhood Education (TIP-ECE)
Learn how to support young children who may have experienced trauma in order to support their health, healing, resilience, and well-being.
Can Predictive Analytics Help Prevent Injuries?
Experts see tremendous potential in using predictive analytics for to predict the probability of injury and disease.
