Aging drivers--when it is time to take away the keys
...ing deficiencies that lead to an increased risk of traffic crashes. On a per-person basis, older drivers have low crash rates, partly because they spend less time on the road. However, their crash rate per number of kilometres driven is alarmingly high. The rates rise steadily after age 70 and for drivers 7...News from the 11th Congress of the International Psychogeriatric Association
...the population, they account for 14 percent of all traffic fatalities and 17 percent of all pedestrian fatali...hich will be discussed at the Congress, may reduce traffic fatalities caused by and to elderly drivers. MOST DOCTORS DON'T RECOGNIZE EARLY SIGNS OF ALZHEIMER'...UNC study: Trails, places to excercise, streetlights can boost activity levels
...anging from how much respondents exercised to what traffic was like in their neighborhoods and if there were sidewalks, trails for walking or biking and unattended dogs. Researchers focused on and called residents of Cabarrus, Henderson, Pitt, Robeson, Surry and Wake counties since those counties are widely ...U.S. pedestrians, cyclists at greater danger than European counterparts
... and truck bans are also part of efforts to "calm" traffic in residential areas in the two countries. City ce...ts and limited and expensive parking help regulate traffic in more urban areas. Neighborhood design also encourages safe walking and riding by clustering resid...Comfort-food cravings may be body's attempt to put brake on chronic stress
...acute response to stress - say to being cut off in traffic by a speeding car - diminishes through a naturally occurring inhibitory feedback mechanism of the adrenal stress system, its chronic response to stress - in which a barrage of threats, scares or frustrations occur over days, weeks or months -- become...Concern over rise in pedestrian and cyclist injuries
...ries to pedestrians and cyclists can be reduced by traffic calming measures, and cycle helmets reduce head injuries. As national initiatives are promoting walking and cycling among schoolchildren, implementation of effective measures such as these should be a priority for local authorities and primary care g...Male injecting-drug users at greater risk of drug-related death
...e converging on the number of lost years from road traffic accidents-as the former goes up, the latter is coming down."...Brain transportation system defect linked to Huntington's by UCSD team
...efective, however, it appears to physically blocks traffic in the narrow axons that are the long pipes of the...t fly larva. As a result, they found that vesicle traffic up and down the axon was disrupted, indicating that huntingtin's normal function was related to the ...Mix of factors related to exercise among minority women
...al environment like the prevalence of sidewalks or traffic did not play a consistent role in whether women exercised, the researchers found. The researchers interviewed groups of black and Latina women living in Chicago and Baltimore, black women in rural South Carolina and Alabama, Latina women in urban Nor...Sleep apnea, depression linked in Stanford study
...th a family member or colleague, or getting into a traffic accident," said Ohayon. Several studies have suggested that sleep apnea is associated with a higher rate of depressive disorder and that treating sleep apnea could help control depression in patients. But no previous study had explored this associat...Air pollution, even at 'safe' levels, is bad for the heart
...raffic, and the most characteristic pollutant from traffic is CO," Panagiotakos said. "During the past two de...se of the central heating emissions, the increased traffic and industrial activities....College students may be drinking more alcohol than even they realize
...e drinkers," he said. "Probably about half of the traffic deaths that are college-drinking related are people other than the college-drinking driver, they're innocent victims." Hingson said the study's results raise important issues that need to be clarified. "We need to repeat this study with a larger ran...Natural scenes calm drivers more than city views, study finds
...g the scenic parkway drive actually had the most traffic shown. "Though this choice may have reduced the beneficial effects of the parkway, it means the results we found are probably stronger," Nasar said. Before they were shown the video, the participants had to perform a difficult 10-minute test that was......croscopy identifies selectins that regulate T cell traffic into allografts AUTHOR CONTACT: Christian P. Larsen Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Phone: 404-727-8465 Fax: 404-727-3660 E-mail: clarsen@emory.org View the PDF of this article at: https://www.the-jci.org/press/19391.p...UCI to lead first public health study exploring link between air pollution and heart disease
...art of the study in the Los Angeles area, near the traffic sources of ultrafine particles, and another in the...ts on children with asthma. "Because of its traffic and smog levels, Southern California is a perfect place to conduct this study," Delfino added. "But ...Study on toxic exposures in urban environments
...ucing subway ridership would just increase surface traffic emissions," says Dr. Chillrud, a geochemist with the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, a division of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, and lead author of the manuscript. For the NYC field research, a total of forty-one students attending t...Risk of death in car crashes reduced if all occupants wear seat belts
...ation's Fatality Analysis Reporting System on U.S. traffic crashes from 1988 through 2000. The researchers restricted their study to pairs of occupants who were in the same car when they crashed. "The study subjects who made up the cohort pairs are referred to as targets in this article to distinguish the...National Inventors Hall of Fame announces 2004 class of inventors
...implementation. GPS is now routinely used for air traffic control systems, ships, trucks and cars, mechanized farming, search and rescue, tracking environmental changes, and more. John Gibbon (1903-1973) Heart-Lung Machine Gibbon's development of the heart-lung machine made possible the first successful ope...Better predictors are needed for posttraumatic stress disorder in children
... October 2001. The children had been injured in a traffic crash in which the child was a motor vehicle passe...ates that even children with minor injuries from a traffic crash are at risk for developing PTSD, says Dr. Kassam-Adams. The Children's Hospital researchers f...Sounds of New York, evidence for a preferred ear, ultrasound for the eye
...t a computer model that can forecast the change in traffic noise between existing and future conditions. Util... trucks that could be introduced into the existing traffic stream without exceeding limits set by New York City noise regulations. (1pNS3). New York is plann...