http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. More than 270,000 pedestrians are killed on the world's roads each year, the World Health Organisation said Thursday, slamming decades of neglect in favour of vehicle transportation. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-pedestrians-year.html Health Thu, 02 May 2013 11:00:02 EST news286710081 (HealthDay)—Elderly pedestrians face a much higher risk of being killed in a traffic accident than the young do, a new government report finds. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-pedestrian-age-odds-dying-traffic.html Health Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:40:02 EST news285517856 (Medical Xpress)—Rapid growth of large cities throughout the world is having enormous impact on traffic safety in urban areas, say researchers at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-road-safety-megacities-bikers-pedestrians.html Health Thu, 07 Feb 2013 06:50:01 EST news279441598 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 (Medical Xpress)—Worldwide, more than 1.2 million traffic fatalities occur yearly, and the lives of pedestrians account for a third of those lost. In the United States, pedestrians make up 12 percent of deaths from traffic collisions. According to a newly published study, male pedestrians struck by vehicles are more than twice as likely to die as their female counterparts. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-males-vehicles-die.html Health Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:17:18 EST news274436097 Researchers from UCL have found that cycling is safer than driving for young males, with 17 to 20 year old drivers facing almost five times greater risk per hour than cyclists of the same age. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-safer-young-people.html Health Wed, 05 Dec 2012 17:00:19 EST news273930113 USC researchers show that men and women focus on different things when paying attention and are drawn away by different types of distractions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-hey-im-men-women-differently.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:00:29 EST news262965621 Some people have questioned whether a ban on texting while driving will actually lead to more crashes because drivers will conceal their cell phones, making it more dangerous to read and type messages. Research led by high school students, however, shows that texting while driving is unsafe regardless of where the phone is positioned. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-teen-led-highlights-dangers-texting.html Other Sun, 29 Apr 2012 08:20:01 EST news254904405 Just because a driver has passed the motor vehicle administration's vision test may not mean he or she is safe to drive. A recent study found that the frequency and distance at which drivers with moderate levels of blurred vision and cataracts recognize pedestrians at night was severely reduced, even when the drivers have passed the required vision test. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-standard-vision-nighttime.html Ophthalmology Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:57:41 EST news253288655 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 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 People who cycle through London and other major cities have higher levels of black carbon in their airway cells, experts from the UK have shown. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-city-cyclists-lung-injury-inhaled.html Health Sun, 25 Sep 2011 13:15:38 EST news236175318