New website to could stop intensive care beds going to waste
...of these problems occurred in the UK, where a road traffic accident victim died while on a journey of over 200 miles. There may well have been beds available at nearby hospitals but staff had no means of knowing where they were. A new website has been developed called ICUnet ( http://www.icubeds.info ) which...... is a greater cause of ill-health than malaria and traffic accidents combined. G8 leaders have set ambitious targets for reducing the global burdens of disease caused by tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV/AIDS by 2010, but why does violence against women, a massive cause of morbidity and mortality, remain overlo...College drinking problems and research solutions
... of alcohol abuse, such as assault, vandalism, and traffic accidents," says Reverend Edward Malloy, President of the University of Notre Dame, and co-chair of the Task Force. "And Ive lived in college dormitories for much of my adult life, so I know firsthand the impact irresponsible drinking has on the qual...Exploring the brain chemistry of people at risk for alcohol disorders
... stronger by viewing negative photographs, such as traffic accident victims; it can be made weaker by positive photographs, such as happy babies and favorite foods. The part of the brain that causes change in the startle reflex is the amygdala. The amygdala is also involved in forming emotions in response ...Glutathione depletion in chronic alcohol abuse makes lungs vulnerable to life-threatening diseases
...cohol abuse and liver disease or alcohol abuse and traffic accidents," he notes.Scientists previously had not focused on the connection between alcohol and lung disease because the cause-and-effect relationship is indirect, unlike the direct effect of alcohol on the liver, explains Dr. Guidot. Dr. Guidot b...Pop-up car bonnets will help reduce pedestrian deaths
...icles are responsible for more than a third of all traffic related fatalities and injuries worldwide, yet research has so far concentrated almost exclusively on increasing the survival of vehicle occupants, argue researchers at the University of Virginia, USA. Crash engineers, however, have long been aware t...Acute stress disorder is common among children and parents following pediatric traffic injury
... 90 percent of families with children injured in a traffic crash, the child or a parent will suffer at least ...ted to The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia for traffic related injuries between July 1999 and May 2000. The children had been injured in a traffic crash i...Alzheimer's drug improves pilots' performance on tests
...te flight simulations, the pilots received new air traffic control commands every three minutes with a new heading, altitude, radio frequency, and, on 50 percent of the legs, a new transponder code that they had to remember and dial into the cockpit panel. They were also confronted with three emergency situa...Brain can reorganize after traumatic injury
...urosurgery and Psychiatry. TBI, often sustained in traffic accidents, is one of the most common causes of disability in young adults. People with TBI frequently complain of memory problems that interfere with their daily function and ability to work, yet many eventually recover memory function and return to ...Infection with toxoplasmososis increases the risk of being involved in a road traffic accident
... disease) are more likely to be involved in a road traffic accident. These findings may well be due to the pr... was increasing the risk of being involved in road traffic accidents. The study examined motorists and pedestrians who were thought to be responsible for an ac...Armed with AEDs, police save lives by cutting response time
...ver, data from large metropolitan areas with heavy traffic congestion and from rural areas showed low overall survival rates as low as 1 to 2 percent. The results led Myerburg and his colleagues to consider expanding the use of AEDs to include police. "The theory is that police are already on the road wh...UCI researchers leading the effort to understand the causes and effects of air pollution
...shared-use together to solve complex problems like traffic congestion, air pollution and oil dependency. The project, called ZEV(NET, couples the benefits of mass transit on commuter trains with the convenience and flexibility of a personal car. It offers participating commuters zero- and low-emission Toyota...Study finds new target for development of anti-cancer drugs
...m23/mLC7-1, a protein that helps to direct protein traffic in the cell. The Penn State team of scientists le...e cell," Mulder said. "The miscommunication causes traffic jams to occur among intracellular signaling proteins. Such a high frequency of km23 alterations in h...People near freeways are exposed to 30 times the concentration of dangerous particles
... nation's busiest freeways, with 93 percent of the traffic composed of gasoline-powered cars. The second stud...710 freeway, which has more than 25 percent of its traffic derived from heavy-duty diesel trucks. By measuring the number of particles and their size at varyin...Cleaner air linked to reduced death rates
... public-health policy, since both coal-burning and traffic emissions continue to be major sources of particulate exposure worldwide. Emission control and effective local interventions are needed to lighten the health burden of particulate air-pollution everywhere."...Children in deprived areas three times more likely to be hit by a car
...al and other built up areas with priority given to traffic calmed 20mph zones in deprived areas with high ped...management strategy. In spite of the importance of traffic speed to the number and severity of road casualties, only one in three local transport plans present...Marked crosswalks may pose risk to older pedestrians
...rossing the street at an intersection that lacks a traffic signal or stop sign, according to researchers at t...ican Medical Association. While crosswalks where a traffic light or stop sign is present are generally safe places for pedestrians to cross, older adults face ...Training improves cognitive abilities of older adults
... medicine bottles, and responding appropriately to traffic signs. Immediately following the 5-week training period, 87 percent of participants in speed training, 74 percent of participants in reasoning training, and 26 percent of participants in memory training demonstrated reliable improvement on their re...Laser technology helps measure pollution from NYC buses
...c scientists used laser technology while riding in traffic behind New York City transit buses to find out exactly how much and what type of pollution different types of buses emit in their exhausts, and the results were surprising. The findings may help other cities determine what kinds of buses to purchase ......up trying to pass through small blood vessels. The traffic jams deprive vital organs of oxygen, so patients end up with anaemia, jaundice, major organ damage, and many other maladies. A sickle haemoglobin fibre can be made up of anywhere from 14 to more than 400 individual strands of haemoglobin molecules l...