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Daily weather and air pollution were not linked to suicide-attempt visits at a hospital in Balikesir, Turkey, according to an 8-year study of 1,413 emergency presentations from 2017 to 2024.…
Read articleResearch on how emergency departments break bad news mostly measures how confident staff feel, not how patients and grieving families fare afterward, according to a 2026 scoping review of 15…
Read articleA virtual reality (VR) headset and a simple hand massage from a companion both eased pain and anxiety during emergency room stitches, compared with usual care alone, in a 2026 randomized tri…
Read articleA 2026 emergency department claims analysis estimated 3.87 million United States ED visits in 2021 where take-home naloxone could have been clinically relevant, compared with 226,453 ED-trea…
Read articleA 2026 national survey of Dutch emergency physicians found wide variation in first-line medication choices for extreme agitation: without intravenous access, 34.7% preferred midazolam, 23.1%…
Read articleA 2026 cross-sectional study in Moshi, Tanzania found that only 26 of 246 injury patients who drank alcohol, or 10.6%, had ever told a healthcare provider about their alcohol use.1 The calib…
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