Opinion | The Healthcare System Didn’t Plan Poorly for Disaster
I was, for a while, a lecturer/consultant for the “Domestic Preparedness Program.” This was an initiative by the Department of Justice to ensure that first responders around the U.S. were prepared to deal with the medical consequences of nuclear, biological, chemical, and blast injuries. This was before the terrible events of 9/11. Our job as […]
Domestic Violence Types, Effects, Warning Signs & Hotline
Abuse, Rape, Domestic Violence Aid and Resource Collection: AARDVARC. GLBT Domestic Violence: Similarities and Differences. March 2007. Abuse, Rape, Domestic Violence Aid and Resource Collection: AARDVARC. Warning signs of domestic violence. July 2007. Anda, R.F., C.L. Whitfield, V.J. Felitti, et al. “Adverse childhood experiences, alcoholic parents, and later risk of alcoholism and depression.” Psychiatric Services […]
Dogs may not return their owners’ good deeds: In experiments, dogs did not reciprocate food-giving nor act more favorably towards helpful humans
Domestic dogs show many adaptations to living closely with humans, but they do not seem to reciprocate food-giving according to a study, publishing July 14 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE, led by Jim McGetrick and colleagues at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna, Austria. The researchers trained 37 domestic dogs to operate a […]