FALL INJURIES IN OLDER ADULTS IN A USA-MEXICO BORDER COMMUNITY: PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS, FALL EVENT AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL SYSTEM UTILIZATION

Fall Injuries In Older Adults in a USA-Mexico Border Community: Personal Characteristics, Fall Event and Emergency Medical System Utilization

Unintentional falls are a major problem affecting the lives of older adults and considered a public health issue likely to escalate as the older adult population, 60 years old and older, grow exponentially.One out of every three older adults fall yearly with escalating severity of injury with each occurrence and it is the fourth leading cause of de

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Ruling out light axions: The writing is on the wall

We revisit Dishwasher PCB the domain wall problem for QCD axion models with more than one quark charged under the Peccei-Quinn symmetry.Symmetry breaking during or after inflation results in the formation of a domain wall network which would cause cosmic catastrophe if it comes to dominate the Universe.The network may be made unstable by invoking a

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