Quantum sufficit: just enough.(Survey)

Publication: American Family Physician

Publication Date: 01-APR-06

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* One popular book series may help keep children injury free. A study published in the British Medical Journal found that on two weekends books in the popular harry Potter series were released, the number of children admitted to the John radcliffe hospital in Oxford, England, dropped by almost one half. The authors of the study reviewed the number of children seven to 15 years of age who arrived at the emergency department with traumatic injuries during the weekends the two books were released and those who arrived during other summer weekends. The authors found that on the nonrelease weekends, an average of 67 children were admitted with sprains, fractures, or...

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