Medical, Mental Health Communities Mobilize to Cope With Terror's Psychological Aftermath
Article Abstract:
Primary care physicians may benefit from taking a course on how to treat the psychological problems of disaster victims. Many New York City doctors were ill-equipped to handle the psychological problems of people who witnessed the World Trade Center attacks. The director of the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma believes there may be a mental health crisis in the city during the holiday season.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2001
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Monkeypox outbreak a reminder of emerging infections vulnerabilities
Article Abstract:
Eighty-one Americans have developed monkeypox as of June 13, 2003. This is a viral infection related to smallpox that normally occurs in Central and West Africa. It was most likely brought to this country when a Gambian giant rat was imported and housed with prairie dogs at an exotic pet facility in Illinois. Most cases occurred in Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, and New Jersey.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2003
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
- Abstracts: Changes in umbilical venous velocities with physiologic perturbations. Fetal pericardial effusion
- Abstracts: Neonatal sepsis after betamethasone administration to patients with preterm rupture of membranes. Neonatal sepsis and death after multiple courses of antenatal betamethasone therapy
- Abstracts: Peripherally administered antibodies against amyloid beta-peptide enter the central nervous system and reduce pathology in a mouse model of Alzheimer disease
- Abstracts: Learning to Care for People With Chronic Illness Facing the End of Life. An 88-year-old woman facing the end of life
- Abstracts: Clinical and biochemical abnormalities in people heterozygous for hemochromatosis. Disease-related conditions in relatives of patients with hemochromatosis