With the spring sports season well underway and summer preseason practices and youth league games around the corner, young athletes are already enjoying warm weather activities and competition. “Every team and athlete should have sports safety as a top priority,” says Larry Cooper, chair of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association Secondary School Committee and head [...]
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16 Youth Sports Safety Tips from National Athletic Trainers’ Association
May 15th, 2013 
John BuckTherapy Dogs Cure Stress at Hopkins Nursing
May 14th, 2013 John Buck
Just add dogs. It turns out that’s a fairly easy recipe for taking a bit of the stress out of the room, one that Caitanya Min, Trad. ’13, of the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON) believes should be served every time exam season rolls around. Her fellow students got a feel for what [...]
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No Comments »Guidance for Clinicians on Prescribing Exercise for Depressed Patients
May 14th, 2013 John BuckExercise has been shown to be an effective treatment for major depressive disorder (MDD), both when used alone and in combination with other treatments. There’s now sufficient research data to provide specific guidance on how to prescribe exercise for depressed patients, according to a report in the May Journal of Psychiatric Practice®. Related Posts: May [...]
Posted in Associations & Groups, Colleagues, Community Health, Family/General Practice, Mental Health, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Pharmacy, Physical Therapy, Physician Assistant Tags: Awareness, Depression, Exercise, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, May, Mental Health, Resources No Comments »Innovations & Technology: Sense of Touch Reproduced Through Prosthetic Hand
May 13th, 2013 John BuckIn a study recently published in IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, neurobiologists at the University of Chicago show how an organism can sense a tactile stimulus, in real time, through an artificial sensor in a prosthetic hand. Scientists have made tremendous advances toward building lifelike prosthetic limbs that move and function like [...]
Guest Blog: Mary Foley RN, PhD, Chairperson, Safe in Common
May 8th, 2013 John BuckSafe in Common Chairperson Mary Foley, PhD, RN, is former President of the American Nursing Association and a US leader for needlestick prevention. She is the Director at the Center for Nursing Research and Innovation at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Nursing. She continues to write and lecture about healthcare policy, [...]
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