Europe's legacy to its children - A healthier environment?
... a drastic reduction of lead exposure; lowering of traffic speed in residential areas; and access to clean drinking water'. The Editorial concludes: 'After bringing environmental and health ministers together, it is now time for doctors to take a front seat in a new specialty of environmental paediatric hea...Three Harvard Medical School endowed chairs named simultaneously in sleep medicine
...on, stroke, diabetes and heart failure, as well as traffic accidents, is now so abundantly clear that it can no longer be ignored," said Farrell. Sustained scientific research and new advances in sleep medicine will impact communities of shift-workers who suffer with sleep disorders in many fields such as ma...UK Engineers open flight path to quieter aircraft
...re pressing in future, with a 300% increase in air traffic forecast by 2020. This could have a major impact on the quality of life of people living close to airports. The SAI represents a response to the problem. It will take an integrated approach to aircraft design and operations, and investigate radically...Under the surface, the brain seethes with undiscovered activity
...ous animal would respond. Accepting all the neural traffic of a conscious brain as part of the equation let Weliky get a better idea of the actual processing going on. As it turned out, one of his control tests yielded insight into neural activity no one expected. When the ferrets were in a darkened room, We...$2.8 million public-private partnership to examine how surroundings can encourage active lifestyles
...ation, architecture, recreation, crime prevention, traffic safety and education, as well as key groups concentrating on land use, public transit, non-motorized travel, public spaces, parks, trails, and architectural practices that advance physical activity. The program establishes innovative approaches to i...Data suggest ADDERALL XR significantly improved simulated driving in young adults with ADHD
...Young adults with ADHD receive twice the number of traffic violations and have more license suspensions and revocations than their peers without ADHD. Records also show that people with ADHD were at fault in more car crashes and were involved in more severe car accidents than people without ADHD. This stu...Urban hospitals bear the brunt of motorcycle injuries
... also found that head injuries were more likely in traffic accidents, compared to non-traffic incidents like ... die and four times more likely to be injured in a traffic crash than passenger car occupants. "On average, for each day in 2001, there were approximately 25 n...Day-long drivers at risk of cardiovascular problems as a result of traffic pollution
...cumulate in cars driving at varying speeds in road traffic enhances the likelihood of thrombosis, inflammatio... carbon monoxide, and driving at varying speeds in traffic raised levels of particles containing copper, sulphur and aldehydes. The heart rate of the troopers ...Assessing the season: LSU hurricane experts learned lessons during Hurricane Season 2004
... field data to quantify and assess the movement of traffic under evacuation conditions (the first study of its kind), but weather changes and other factors hindered him. "One of the difficulties of such research is the variable nature of storms and the responses to them ... but we finally met with success in...Entrepreneurism Center at UC San Diego funds commercialization of lung, shock, other devices
...useful for outdoor full-color displays, signaling, traffic lights, automobile lights. White light from LEDs would offer many advantages for general lighting: reduced electrical energy consumption, reduced carbon-related pollution, increased lifetime, and so on. There are numerous research approaches to the ...Climate change and the future of air travel
...ng predictions from climate change models with air traffic simulations to predict contrail formation and identify ways of reducing it. The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is funding the work, which is a joint effort between the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and t...Hands-on or hands-free, using a cell phone while driving is not safe, researchers find
...rs see the world and make them more likely to miss traffic signs and other important information (see the special section papers by McPhee, Scialfa, Dennis, Ho, and Caird and by Atchley and Dressel). Using a speech recognition system to reduce distraction, such as speaking an address into a navigation syst...Cell phone users drive like old folks
If you have been stuck in traffic behind a motorist yakking on a cellular phone, a new University of Utah study will sound familiar: When young motorists talk on cell phones, they drive like elderly people, moving and reacting more slowly and increasing their risk of accidents. "If...Highest average rate of US road deaths on Independence Day
...spring, largely because of the increased volume of traffic on the roads, suggest the authors. There were more deaths in August than any other month, and more deaths from June to November than from December to May. The fewest deaths occurred in January and February, but far fewer journeys were made during th...A safer route to school makes children more likely to walk and bike, study shows
... Safe Routes to School program, such as additional traffic lights, new crosswalks and improved sidewalks. Parent surveys show that children who pass by these improvement projects on their route to school are three times as likely to walk or bike to school when the project is completed, compared to classmates...New system for the analysis of facial movement in three dimensions
...gations to quantify damage caused by workplace and traffic accidents, given that the degree of injury and muscular contraction can be quantified objectively and with exactitude. Facial paralysis Facial Paralysis is a relatively frequent pathology (each year there are nine new cases per 100,000 inhabitants......egislative interventions to reduce alcohol-related traffic deaths," they note. "Unfortunately, without comprehensive testing for alcohol and determination of college student status of all persons who die from falls, drownings, poisoning, homicide, suicide, and any other kind of injury, we lack the most depe......ental Medicine. To gauge the levels of exposure to traffic fumes, the research team assessed the amount of a ...0 km south of Taipei, Taiwan, and have the highest traffic density of any toll station in the country. To test the effects of exposure, they measured 8-OHdG in...