Dietary supplements cause more than 20,000 visits to emergency rooms each year, with many of the injuries in young adults who took supplements marketed for weight loss or as energy boosters.
A diagnostic test has been developed that can help predict the future risk of cardiovascular disease for a teen. It can be adapted by physicians to assess teens’ future risk and to encourage healthy behaviors that could prevent heart disease.
Mass shootings have become common. There is growing evidence that mass shootings may act like a contagion, because some perpetrators appear to study past shootings so as to emulate them.
In recent years, zip lines have become extremely popular. But with popularity comes an increase in injuries, according to a study of U.S. emergency room data.
