http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. 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 new report on teen driver safety released today by The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and State Farm shows encouraging trends among teen passengers. In 2011 more than half of teen passengers (54 percent) reported "always" buckling up. From 2008 to 2011, risky behaviors of teen passengers (ages 15 to 19 years) declined: the number of teen passengers killed in crashes not wearing seat belts decreased 23 percent; the number of teen passengers driven by a peer who had been drinking declined 14 percent; and 30 percent fewer teen passengers were killed in crashes involving a teen driver. Overall, the report measured a 47 percent decline in teen driver-related fatalities over the past six years. Still, as recent high-profile multi-fatality crashes with teen drivers illustrate, crashes remain the leading cause of death for U.S. teens. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-national-teen-safety-gains-passengers.html Health Thu, 04 Apr 2013 10:50:42 EST news284291435 (AP)—The World Health Organization says only 7 percent of the world's population lives in nations where there are adequate road safety laws. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-world-lags-road-safety-laws.html Health Thu, 14 Mar 2013 11:23:27 EST news282479000 Semi-truck drivers and sleeper berth passengers who were not using safety restraints, significantly increased the odds of injuries in moving collisions compared to those semi-truck occupants who were using occupant safety restraints, according to a recent study by the Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center (KIPRC) at the University of Kentucky College of Public Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-lack-safety-restraint-semi-truck-injury.html Health Mon, 11 Mar 2013 08:15:32 EST news282208522 Research just published indicates that New South Wales has one third of the people smoking in cars compared to New Zealand. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-smartphone-app-australians-cars-zealanders.html Health Mon, 04 Mar 2013 08:50:01 EST news281608186 (HealthDay)—Seat belt use by American drivers and passengers reached an all-time high of 86 percent in 2012, a new federal government study finds. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-americans-buckling.html Health Thu, 15 Nov 2012 18:10:01 EST news272217661 Car accidents are the main cause of serious injury and death among children in Norway. A new study from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health shows that 37 per cent of all children under 16 years are incorrectly restrained in the car. 23 per cent of children are so poorly restrained that a collision would have very serious consequences. The study results were presented at a seminar on traffic accidents in Oslo on 8th October. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-child-incorrectly-restrained-cars-european.html Health Mon, 08 Oct 2012 12:52:38 EST news268919539 Letting autoworkers sit while they reach into a car's interior could help prevent shoulder and back strain - but another solution might be to tilt the entire car so that workers can stand up. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-tilting-cars-line-angle-autoworkers.html Health Mon, 14 May 2012 14:09:37 EST news256223367 While most teens do buckle up when driving, new research shows that novice teen drivers who live in states with so-called "secondary enforcement" seat belt laws are less likely to use the life-saving devices than those in "primary enforcement" states. The research, conducted by The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and State Farm®, is published in the American Journal of Public Health. The research found seat belt use rates differed as teens moved through the probationary licensing process known as Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-teen-seat-belt-significantly-higher.html Health Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:40:01 EST news254072824 Most parents report that they typically require their child to use a life-saving booster seat, but more than 30 percent said they do not enforce this rule when their child is riding with another driver. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-urges-parents-booster-seat-carpooling.html Health Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:53:06 EST news247117977 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 (AP) -- A large study in older veterans raises fresh concern about mild brain injuries that hundreds of thousands of troops have suffered from explosions in recent wars. Even concussions seem to raise the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease or other dementia later in life, researchers found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-brain-injury-dementia.html Medical research Mon, 18 Jul 2011 07:00:01 EST news230188337 (AP) -- Kids may be safest in cars when grandma or grandpa are driving instead of mom or dad, according to study results that even made the researchers do a double-take. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-grandparents-safer-drivers-mom-dad.html Other Mon, 18 Jul 2011 06:40:01 EST news230188161