background:modafinil, a non-amphetamine central nervous system stimulant, is a wakefulness-promoting agent indicated for use in shift work sleep disorder, narcolepsy, and obstructive sleep apnea. the trend in modafinil overexposure over a ten-year period and the population likely to experience a resulting clinical effect is evaluated. methods: using data from the american association of poison ...

Anscombe and Bratman both reject the Simple View, but many philosophers have thought that it holds the key to understanding intentional action.3 The Simple View raises a complex question: If intentional actions require intentions, then what do intentions require? In other words, what are the necessary conditions for intending to ? For simplicity, I will assume a standard belief-desire model acc...

background adolescence and youth are life-threatening stages of development when a range of unsafe behaviors can harmfully affect a person’s health and their social and educational performance. objectives the present study aimed to determine the incidence and prevalence of high-risk behaviors related to intentional and unintentional harm in adolescents of zahedan (iran). patients and methods th...

Objective—To improve understanding of processes leading to injury and assess more specifically the degree of intentionality. Methods—A new paradigm was developed that characterizes the act of inflicting injury (self, other, not inflicted) and the motive. Motives are determined for the act of injury and for the outcome. To test this, 986 cases of adolescent injuries in seven hospitals were revie...

BACKGROUND Injury is a truly global health issue that has enormous societal and economic consequences in all countries. Interpersonal violence is now widely recognized as important global public health issues that can be addressed through evidence-based interventions. In South Africa, as in many low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), a lack of ongoing, systematic injury surveillance has limit...

The term "birth trauma" is one that is well ingrained into the lexicon of medical providers. There is ample information of the types of injuries that are incurred during the birth process. However, there is no uniformed term for the process of an unforeseen act that leads to a precipitous birth. We would like to show a case report of such an act. The infant's injuries were sustained while in ut...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to use a new data set to compare the circumstances of fatal poisoning in deaths ruled as suicides to those ruled as unintentional, particularly with regard to the prevalence of mental health, substance abuse, and other risk factors. DESIGN The design is an analysis of all fatal poisonings using data from the New Jersey Violent Death Reporting System. P...

OBJECTIVES To describe injuries and their emergency care at five city hospitals. SETTING Data were collected between January and December 1998 from casualty departments of the five largest hospitals of Kampala city, Uganda, with bed capacity ranging from 60 to 1200. METHODS Registry forms were completed on trauma patients. All patients with injuries were eligible. Outcome at two weeks was d...

Objective: The objective of this study is to use a new data set to compare the circumstances of fatal poisoning in deaths ruled as suicides to those ruled as unintentional, particularly with regard to the prevalence of mental health, substance abuse, and other risk factors. Design: The design is an analysis of all fatal poisonings using data from the New Jersey Violent Death Reporting System. P...