http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Many drivers say the large digital billboards flashing ads every few seconds along Bay Area freeways are just too bright and too distracting. And they may be right. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-digital-billboards-distracting.html Health Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:10:01 EST news276885980 (HealthDay)—Gifts of electronic gadgets, like smartphones and laptops, no doubt bring glee to the teens who receive them. But people thinking of gifting such devices to a kid might want to consider the broader ramifications. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-gadget-givers-urged-ramifications.html Pediatrics Fri, 14 Dec 2012 10:10:23 EST news274702214 Almost one in three pedestrians is distracted by mobile devices while crossing busy road junctions, finds an observational study published online in Injury Prevention. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-pedestrians-distracted-mobiles-street.html Health Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:30:03 EST news274554559 Mandatory rules such as restricting body checking can limit aggression and reduce injuries in ice hockey, making the game safer for young people, a new study has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-limiting-aggression-hockey-injuries.html Health Mon, 03 Dec 2012 12:00:08 EST news273754592 (Medical Xpress)—While it may come as no surprise that parents who talk on cell phones, send texts or eat and drink while driving have teenagers who are more likely to do the same, what teens think their parents do behind the wheel matters more than what mom or dad say they do. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-driver-distraction.html Health Wed, 28 Nov 2012 09:50:01 EST news273317875 Female athletes are far more likely than males to suffer serious ACL knee injuries. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-acl-knee-injuries-female-athletes.html Health Thu, 15 Nov 2012 07:18:26 EST news272186281 A new government-funded study is to be carried out into how Britain's roads could be made safer for cyclists to reduce the risk of cycling injuries, encourage more people to use bikes and improve public health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-safe-roads-bradley-nation-cyclists.html Health Wed, 14 Nov 2012 13:34:32 EST news272122464 University of Otago researchers have found that serious assaults in New Zealand have been steadily rising and are now at disturbingly high levels, especially among young males, Maori and Pacific people, and those from deprived neighbourhoods. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-assaults-zealand-disturbingly-high.html Health Fri, 12 Oct 2012 07:35:31 EST news269246124 Levels of ongoing disability amongst people injured, even when not hospitalised, has surprised a University of Otago research team. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-disability-high-non-hospitalised-injury-victims.html Health Tue, 02 Oct 2012 08:42:49 EST news268386160 Designing or modifying buildings and communities to facilitate physical activity must include strategies to maximize safety. A new report released today, Active Design Supplement: Promoting Safety, by the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy, New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene's Built Environment and Healthy Housing Program, and the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) provides explicit guidelines for urban planners, architects, public health advocates, and others to consider when promoting active designs. Experts from New York City's departments of Transportation, Buildings, and Design and Construction, and the Mayor's Office of People with Disabilities also contributed to the report. It is the first time a publication has been produced to bridge the two disciplines of injury prevention and active design, and contains information for designers, architects, planners, public health professionals and engineers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-incorporating-safety-important-injury.html Other Tue, 25 Sep 2012 15:50:09 EST news267806990 Men who are recent immigrants and over qualified for their jobs are more than three times as likely to sustain an injury at work as their appropriately qualified peers who have been in the country for some time, suggests Canadian research published online in Injury Prevention. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-overqualified-immigrants.html Health Mon, 09 Jul 2012 18:30:03 EST news261073439 (HealthDay) -- Drowning kills more American children 1 to 4 years old than any cause except birth defects, according to a new federal report. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-kids-accidental-death-cdc.html Pediatrics Thu, 17 May 2012 16:30:01 EST news256490373 One in three households in Baltimore misreports its smoke alarm coverage, with the vast majority of errors due to over-reporting coverage, according to a study by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy. Reasons for over-reporting included study participants incorrectly assuming all of their alarms were working because they weren't beeping, and not having alarms on every level of the home. While previous research has found varying validity for self-report of smoke alarm coverage, this study is unique for also examining the reasons why individuals misreport. The report is available online in advance of publication in the journal Injury Prevention. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-households-misreports-alarm-coverage.html Health Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:58:01 EST news254573853 Since 1992, the government's Back-to-Sleep Campaign has encouraged parents to place infants on their backs to sleep. Still, more than 4,500 infants die unexpectedly during sleep each year in the United States. Now, a University of Missouri injury prevention researcher says that safe, separate sleep environments for infants are critical to preventing sudden unexpected infant deaths (SUIDs). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-safe-environments-key-infant-deaths.html Health Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:40:01 EST news254072207 Installing a gun cabinet dramatically reduces unlocked guns and ammunition in the home, according to a study in rural Alaska villages where the residents are primarily Alaska Native people. Group Health Research Institute Senior Investigator David Grossman, MD, MPH, led the research, which the American Journal of Public Health e-published on March 8. Dr. Grossman is also a pediatrician and medical director for preventive care at Group Health and University of Washington (UW) professor of health services. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-gun-cabinets-homes-safe-firearm.html Health Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:00:04 EST news250442863 Suicides among US army personnel rose 80 per cent between 2004 and 2008, finds research by US Army Public Health Command and published online in Injury Prevention. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-army-suicides-rose-percent.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:30:02 EST news250359449 A longstanding California occupational safety program requiring all businesses to eliminate workplace hazards can help prevent injuries to workers, but only if it is adequately enforced, according to a new study by the RAND Corporation. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-workplace-safety-injuries-aggressively.html Health Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:05:38 EST news246819929 (Medical Xpress) -- Working-age adults who take combinations of prescription medication may be doubling their risk of serious falls at home according to research from The University of Auckland. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-multiple-medicines-fall-young-middle.html Medications Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:34:42 EST news246526473 A new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) documents a need for increased injury prevention efforts in many of the most popular activities for kids (walking, bicycling, swimming, sports and playground use) in the United States. Injury is the leading cause of death for young people in the U.S., yet many public health efforts to promote physical activity in kids do not consider the numerous available strategies to incorporate injury prevention. The report, published online in the journal Health and Place, outlines how injury prevention and child obesity professionals can work together to prevent injury while promoting active lifestyles in kids. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-strategies-physical-kids-lack-injury.html Health Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:56:00 EST news246304552 Listen up, pedestrians wearing headphones. Can you hear the trains or cars around you? Many probably can't, especially young adult males. Serious injuries to pedestrians listening to headphones have more than tripled in six years, according to new research from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. In many cases, the cars or trains are sounding horns that the pedestrians cannot hear, leading to fatalities in nearly three-quarters of cases. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-toll-pedestrians-headphones-triples.html Health Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:52:45 EST news246005553 Fewer children required hospitalization following a drowning incident over the last two decades, according to a new study from the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy. According to the study, pediatric hospitalizations from drowning-related incidents declined 51 percent from 1993 to 2008. The rates declined significantly for all ages and for both genders, although drowning-related hospitalizations remained higher for boys at every age. Hospitalization rates also decreased significantly across the U.S., with the greatest decline in the South. Despite the steep decline, the South still experienced the highest rate of pediatric hospitalizations for drowning. The study will be published in the February issue of Pediatrics, and available on the journal's website January 16. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-children-require-hospitalization-drowning-related-incidents.html Health Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:42:21 EST news245904130 More than half a million children in the U.S. sustain a traumatic brain injury (TBI) every year. Adults who suffer TBI often report headaches afterward, but little is known about how often children suffer headaches after similar injuries. In a significant new study, "Headache After Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury: A Cohort Study," researchers analyzed the prevalence of headaches three and 12 months after mild, moderate or severe TBI in children ages 5 to 17, and discovered the risk of headache was higher in adolescents (ages 13 to 17) and in girls. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-headaches-traumatic-brain-injury-highest.html Health Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:05:09 EST news242323501 Firefighters are more likely to be injured while exercising than while putting out fires, suggests research published online in Injury Prevention. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-firefighters.html Health Thu, 24 Nov 2011 05:25:03 EST news241334696 (Medical Xpress) -- Psychiatric nurses could play a role in preventing firearm suicides and homicides among the mentally ill, but few receive training on this issue, says a new study from Ball State University. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-psychiatric-nurses-gun-related-suicides-homicides.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 01 Nov 2011 08:53:33 EST news239356402 A workplace program designed to teach employees to act more like consumers when they make health care decisions, for example, by finding and evaluating health information or choosing a benefit plan, also improved exercise, diet and other health habits, according to a new study in the latest issue of the American Journal of Health Promotion. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-employee-heath-consumer-skills-health.html Health Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:45:49 EST news239273129 Road deaths among young adults and seniors are down nearly 60 percent since 1968, but they still have the highest road fatality rates among all age groups, say University of Michigan researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-road-fatalities-young-high.html Health Wed, 26 Oct 2011 06:54:20 EST news238830853 Teens who drink more than five cans of non-diet, fizzy soft drinks every week are significantly more likely to behave aggressively, suggests research published online in Injury Prevention. This includes carrying a weapon and perpetrating violence against peers and siblings. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-high-fizzy-soft-consumption-linked.html Health Tue, 25 Oct 2011 04:08:23 EST news238734493 A new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy and Columbia University finds alcohol-related fatal motor vehicle crashes in the U.S. are much lower among drivers with Canadian licenses than drivers with U.S. or Mexican licenses. The prevalence of alcohol involvement in fatal crashes was 27 percent for both U.S. and Mexican drivers, and 11 percent for Canadian drivers. Similarly, alcohol impairment was found in 23 percent of U.S. and Mexican drivers and 8 percent of Canadian drivers involved in a fatal crash. Research from other countries finds foreign drivers are at greater risk of crashes than native drivers. In contrast, this study shows that drivers licensed in Mexico and Canada who were involved in fatal crashes in the U.S. had the same or less alcohol impairment than U.S.-licensed drivers. The report is published in the October issue of Injury Prevention and is available on the journal's website. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-fatal-canadian-drivers.html Health Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:37:15 EST news238153028 From 1999 to 2007, there were 185,950 emergency department (ED) visits in the U.S. for firearm injuries in children aged 0 to 19 years. A new abstract presented Monday, Oct. 17, at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) National Conference and Exhibition in Boston, provided an overview of these injuries, including a variety of risk factors including age, race, hospital location, and insurance type. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-incidence-non-fatal-pediatric-firearm-injuries.html Health Mon, 17 Oct 2011 04:26:21 EST news238044375 (AP) -- The number of athletic children going to hospitals with concussions is up 60 percent in the past decade, a finding that is likely due to parents and coaches being more careful about getting head injuries treated, according to a new federal study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-kids-er-concussion-pct-decade.html Health Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:05:55 EST news237125148