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Neglectful and controlling parents linked to mental health problems in children

March 25th, 2011 in Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

(PhysOrg.com) -- Children’s perception of how they are parented is a major predictor of whether they will develop mental health problems as teenager, according to research by the University and the Medical Research Council.

Data from almos...

Risk of hospital patient mortality increases with nurse staffing shortfalls, study finds

March 17, 2011 By Sarah Anderson

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nurses are the front-line caregivers to hospital patients, coordinating and providing direct care and delivering it safely and reliably. The goal for any hospital is to ensure that each of its patient-care units has an adequate number of nurses during every shift.

Ideally, the proper number of hours nu...

US healthcare system can't keep up with number of baby boomers' bone fractures

March 17th, 2011 in Medicine & Health / Health

Many Baby Boomers will experience a bone fracture as they age, and the current US healthcare system is not prepared to provide the necessary care required, according to a special monograph released in the January 2011 issue of Geriatric Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation (GOS), published by SAGE.

The first...