News tagged with car
Doctors communicate with man assumed to be in vegetative state using fMRI
(Medical Xpress)—Doctors in Canada claim they have opened a communication channel, using fMRI, with a man assumed to be in a vegetative state for over twelve years. By asking the patient to envision two ...
Neuroscience
Nov 14, 2012 |
4.7 / 5 (17) |
7
|
Suicide now kills more Americans than car crashes: study
(HealthDay)—More Americans now commit suicide than die in car crashes, making suicide the leading cause of injury deaths, according to a new study.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 20, 2012 |
5 / 5 (5) |
0
|
Judge orders tobacco companies to say they lied
(AP)—A federal judge on Tuesday ordered tobacco companies to publish corrective statements that say they lied about the dangers of smoking and that disclose smoking's health effects, including the death on average of 1,200 ...
Health
Nov 27, 2012 |
5 / 5 (3) |
3
Stress makes exhausted women over-sensitive to sounds
Women suffering from stress-related exhaustion exhibit hypersensitivity to sounds when exposed to stress. In some cases, a sound level corresponding to a normal conversation can be perceived as painful. This according to ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 15, 2013 |
5 / 5 (2) |
0
Longtime smokers lose a decade of life
(HealthDay)—Adding to the arsenal of evidence that smoking is bad for you, a large new study indicates that lifetime smokers cut 10 years off their life expectancy—a decade they can gain back if they ...
Health
Jan 24, 2013 |
5 / 5 (2) |
0
Arizona coma patient now speaking, walking
(AP) -- It will be a special Christmas for the family of a 21-year-old University of Arizona student who was nearly taken off life support but is now recovering after waking up from a coma.
Other
Dec 23, 2011 |
4.5 / 5 (2) |
1
Discussions of guns in the home part of comprehensive preventive health care
This June, a law took effect in the state of Florida limiting physicians' ability to ask patients about firearm ownership. In September, a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction preventing enforcement of the law, ...
Health
Nov 10, 2011 |
3 / 5 (2) |
0
CDC: Add $2 per drink for US excessive drinking
(AP) -- The toll of excessive drinking works out to about $2 per drink, in terms of medical expenses and other costs to society, according to a new federal research.
Health
Oct 17, 2011 |
5 / 5 (1) |
11
Commuting - bad for your health?
A mobile workforce can help improve a country's economy but the effects of commuting on the health of commuters and on the costs to industry in terms of sick days is largely unknown. From a commuter's point of view, the advantages ...
Health
Oct 31, 2011 |
5 / 5 (1) |
3
Pain after car accidents: a pain in the neck or brain?
After her Honda Civic was totalled in a car crash, Melissa Mucci was told she was fine because she didn’t have any broken bones or serious injury.
Medical research
Nov 03, 2011 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
Feeling lackadaisical? sleep apnea may be to blame
(HealthDay) -- Millions of Americans plod through each day exhausted. Not because they're working too hard, over-exercising or not taking enough vitamins.
Sleep apnea
May 29, 2012 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
One in three post-partum women suffers PTSD symptoms after giving birth
(Medical Xpress) -- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) develops in individuals who experience highly traumatizing situations such as terrorist attacks and car accidents, but symptoms can also come about ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 08, 2012 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
Researchers develop more reliable concussion tests
(Medical Xpress)—It could happen during a nasty spill on the ski slopes, a hard tackle at football practice, or even a car accident. ASU nursing student Sarah Hollowell sustained her concussion playing ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 01, 2012 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
Obese much more likely to die in car crashes than normal weight drivers
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.
Health
Jan 21, 2013 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
What heals traumatized kids? Answers are lacking
Shootings and other traumatic events involving children are not rare events, but there's a startling lack of scientific evidence on the best ways to help young survivors and witnesses heal, a government-funded ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 11, 2013 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
Automobile
An automobile or motor car is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles are designed to run primarily on roads, to have seating for one to eight people, to typically have four wheels, and to be constructed principally for the transport of people rather than goods. However, the term automobile is far from precise, because there are many types of vehicles that do similar tasks.
As of 2002, there were 590 million passenger cars worldwide (roughly one car per eleven people). Around the world, there were about 806 million cars and light trucks on the road in 2007; they burn over 260 billion gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel yearly. The numbers are increasing rapidly, especially in China and India.
For more information about Automobile, read the full article at
Wikipedia.
This text uses material from Wikipedia and is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.
