http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Obese drivers are significantly more likely to die in a road traffic collision than people of normal weight, indicates US research published online in Emergency Medicine Journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-obese-die-car-weight-drivers.html Health Mon, 21 Jan 2013 18:30:01 EST news278007660 Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) among children in China are a growing public health concern. Two new studies by researchers of the International Program at the Center for Injury Research and Policy of The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital and the Wuhan Children's Hospital in China examined pediatric TBIs that were treated at Wuhan Children's Hospital from 2002 to 2011. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-global-collaborative-efforts-delineate-pediatric.html Health Fri, 14 Dec 2012 06:45:07 EST news274689900 (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 For assessing severe trauma, single-pass whole-body computed tomography (CT) can prove but not definitively exclude the presence of injuries and should be performed later than 30 minutes after admission to an emergency department for optimal results, according to a study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-whole-body-ct-scans-trauma-exclude.html Health Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:00:04 EST news250166128