News tagged with accidents
Acetaminophen protects kidneys after muscle injury
Severe muscle injuries -- such as crush injuries suffered in earthquakes, car accidents and explosions, and muscle damage from excessive exercise or statin drug interactions - can cause life-threatening kidney damage. Treatment ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 01, 2010 |
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Simulation study may help Parkinson's patients retain driving skills
In a first-of-its-kind study, Medical College of Georgia researchers are testing whether simulation driving can reduce Parkinson's patients' threefold increased risk of car accidents.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 01, 2010 |
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Novel surgery may help young trauma patients avoid total hip replacements
A novel surgery using transplanted bone and cartilage may help young patients avoid a hip replacement after a specific traumatic injury to the hip joint, according to a case study by orthopedic trauma specialists at Hospital ...
Jan 29, 2010 |
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Electronic Arts standing behind Tiger Woods
(AP) -- Electronic Arts Inc. said Monday it will stand behind Tiger Woods - at least for the release of a new online golf game featuring the embattled athlete.
Jan 05, 2010 |
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Smarter cars are gaining traction (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Lives can depend on a vehicle's moment-by-moment traction. New European technology promises to make cars as good as experienced, alert drivers at sensing and adjusting to wet, snowy or icy ...
Dec 21, 2009 |
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Murders, Traffic Deaths Connected
If you want to know how many people are killed in car accidents in a particular U.S. state, look to its prisons. Regions with higher murder rates also tend to have a greater number of traffic fatalities, according to a new ...
Dec 03, 2009 |
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Study simulated car crashes involving pregnant women
Although states are not required to report fetal deaths in accident data, between 300 and 1,000 unborn babies die in car accidents each year. This accident fatality rate is about four times the rate for victims ...
Dec 02, 2009 |
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Careful diagnosis helps fracture patients put best foot forward
Located in areas of the foot that can be hard to visualize with X-rays and other imaging techniques, injuries to the ankle area of the foot are the most frequently misdiagnosed of all foot fractures. Delayed diagnosis can ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dec 01, 2009 |
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More than 1,000 patients in US admitted annually for aviation-related injuries
The first ever published study of aviation-related injuries and deaths in the U.S. finds that more than 1,013 patients are admitted to U.S. hospitals with aviation-related injuries annually, and that 753 aviation-deaths occur ...
Dec 01, 2009 |
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Walking hazard: Cell-phone use -- but not music -- reduces pedestrian safety
Two new studies of pedestrian safety found that using a cell phone while hoofing it can endanger one's health. Older pedestrians, in particular, are impaired when crossing a busy (simulated) street while speaking ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 16, 2009 |
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Virtual solution to driving phobias
(PhysOrg.com) -- Nervous drivers are being helped to overcome their road phobias by donning Cyclops-style goggles that transport them to a three-dimensional virtual world.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 19, 2009 |
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New method proposed to calculate reduction in road accident deaths
A team of engineers from the University of Almería (UAL, Spain) has developed a methodology to help meet the EU objective of cutting road deaths by 50% between 2000 and 2010. The researchers have calculated ...
Oct 15, 2009 |
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Area-wide traffic calming improves safety -- but will it work in low- and middle-income countries?
Area-wide traffic calming schemes that discourage through-traffic from using residential roads are effective at reducing traffic-related injuries in high-income countries and may even reduce deaths. However, more research ...
Oct 07, 2009 |
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In 16 states, drug deaths overtake traffic fatals
(AP) -- In 16 states and counting, drugs now kill more people than auto accidents do, the government said Wednesday.
Sep 30, 2009 |
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Victims of Seveso disaster face higher risk from some cancers
People living in the Seveso area of Italy, which was exposed to dioxin after an industrial accident in 1976, have experienced an increased risk of developing cancer. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal ...
Sep 14, 2009 |
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