http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Most consumers who are shopping for a new car depend on good crash safety ratings as an indicator of how well the car will perform in a crash. But a new University at Buffalo study of crashes involving cars and sport utility vehicles (SUVs) has found those crash ratings are a lot less relevant than vehicle type. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-passenger-car-drivers-die-suvs.html Health Tue, 14 May 2013 13:26:09 EST news287756702 Bicycle helmets save lives, and their use should be required by law. That's the conclusion of a study to be presented Monday, May 6, at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Washington, DC. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-laws-require-bicyclists-helmets.html Health Mon, 06 May 2013 04:25:14 EST news287033107 Vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death and injury among children. Kansas State University civil engineers are striving to increase child safety by studying a simple action: buckling up. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-seat-belt-aims-child-safety.html Health Fri, 03 May 2013 08:34:27 EST news286788860 A research report released today from The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) provides specific recommendations for optimizing the rear seat of passenger vehicles to better protect its most common occupants—children and adolescents. By bringing technologies already protecting front seat passengers to the rear seat and modifying the geometry of the rear seat to better fit this age group, the US could achieve important reductions in serious injury and death. Motor vehicle crashes remain the leading cause of death for children older than 4 years and resulted in 952 fatalities in 2010 for children age 15 and younger. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-rear-seat-priority-children-safety.html Health Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:37:42 EST news286450656 Visual symptoms and abnormalities occur at high rates in people with traumatic brain injury (TBI)—including Iraq and Afghanistan War veterans with blast-related TBI, reports a study, "Abnormal Fixation in Individuals with AMD when Viewing an Image of a Face", in the February issue of Optometry and Vision Science, official journal of the American Academy of Optometry. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-combat-vets-high-vision-problems.html Neuroscience Mon, 04 Feb 2013 11:50:01 EST news279200228 A new report from researchers with the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy finds the majority of the previously reported increase in suicide in the U.S. between 2000 and 2010 is attributable to an increase in hanging/suffocation, which increased from 19 percent of all suicides in 2000 to 26 percent of all suicides in 2010. The largest increase in hanging/suffocation occurred among those aged 45-59 years (104 percent increase). The results are published in the December issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-suicide-hangingsuffocation-middle-aged-men-women.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:20:01 EST news272562885 A new study by researchers in Boston Children's Hospital's Division of Emergency Medicine indicates that a nationwide standard on booster seat laws for children 4 feet 9 inches and shorter, or up to 8 years old, would save lives. The findings were published online Nov. 5, 2012, in the journal Pediatrics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-standardized-booster-seat-laws-children.html Pediatrics Mon, 05 Nov 2012 13:06:21 EST news271343171 African-American youth ages 12-20 are seeing more advertisements for alcohol in magazines and on TV compared with all youth ages 12-20, according to a new report from the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth (CAMY) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The report is available on CAMY's website, www.camy.org. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-african-american-youth-exposed-alcohol-advertising.html Health Thu, 27 Sep 2012 13:17:26 EST news267970592 A Rhode Island Hospital researcher has found that the use of electronic prescription drug monitoring programs (PMPs) may have a significant impact on the demand for drug treatment programs and how prescribers detect and respond to abuse of painkillers. The study by Traci C. Green, Ph.D., MSc, research scientist in Rhode Island Hospital's department of general internal medicine, is published online in advance of print in the journal Pain Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-pmp-demand-drug-treatment-painkiller.html Medications Thu, 16 Aug 2012 10:50:02 EST news264332018 Researchers at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's Center for Injury Research and Prevention studied nearly 1,000 1- to 8-year-old children involved in crashes and found no evidence of increased injury risk for children across a broad weight range. All of the children included in the study were properly restrained in the correct child safety seat or booster seat for their height and weight. The research also suggests that the current range of child safety seats and booster seats available today sufficiently accommodates a broad spectrum of children's body sizes, including children with higher weights. The results are published online in the December issue of the journal Pediatrics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-experts-car-seats-overweight-kids.html Overweight and Obesity Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:48:49 EST news241804063 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 Less than half of pediatric car passengers suffering injuries from motor vehicle crashes were restrained, with the lowest rates among blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans, according to a research abstract presented Saturday, Oct. 15, at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) National Conference and Exhibition (NCE) in Boston. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-minority-children-car-seatbelt-greater.html Health Sat, 15 Oct 2011 06:14:05 EST news237878039 Imagine that you are driving home from work today when you are involved in a head on collision with an SUV. Life Lion flies you to the hospital. When you awake in the Emergency Department, you notice that you cannot feel your legs. Your doctor tells you that you may not able to walk. You also eventually realize that you cannot urinate or defecate voluntarily. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-spinal-cord-injury-focus.html Medical research Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:21:19 EST news235311662 Summer is the most dangerous time of year for teen drivers, with nearly twice as many teens dying on America's roads each day compared to the rest of the year. But a new online program helps parents keep their teens safe as they gain experience driving without adult supervision. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-interactive-website-parents-teen-drivers.html Health Thu, 16 Jun 2011 06:51:08 EST news227425797