Good News on Guns--but Not for Everyone

Article Abstract:

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continues to focus on the negative aspects of firearm ownership while other physicians say the agency is missing the bigger picture. A 1998 CDC study found that the rate of fatal and nonfatal firearm-related injuries increased every year since 1985, peaked in 1993, and then began to decline. The agency estimates that firearms will become the number one cause of injury death by 2001 even if this decrease continues. However, the agency seems to be ignoring studies which show a 15% drop in homicides in areas where adults are allowed to carry concealed weapons.

Health aspects, Reports, Statistics, Firearms, Homicide, United States. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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Enabling Students to Deal With the Disabled

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Medical students need formal courses on dealing with disabled patients. Most doctors have little if any training in that capacity. Doctors are trained to treat short-term, or acute, problems. However, as the baby-boom generation ages, more people will have chronic disabilities. The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) offers the nation's first PhD program in disability studies. Western University of Health Sciences has created the Center for Disability Issues and the Health Professions and plans to offer continuing medical education courses for doctors.

Education, Physicians, Medical professions, Study and teaching, Disability, Disabilities

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Innovative Program for Mentally III Inmates

Article Abstract:

The Connecticut Department of Correction has begun an innovative program for treating mentally ill prisoners at Garner Correctional Institution in Newtown, CT. Patients start out in a closely monitored unit that allows them to receive individualized treatment, and then progress to less restrictive units.

Psychological aspects, Care and treatment, Mentally ill persons, Mentally ill, Prisoners

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