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Patients with sleep apnea should avoid driving after poor sleep or consuming alcohol
May 20, 2009 |
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Patients with undiagnosed or untreated obstructive sleep apnea are especially vulnerable to the effects of sleep deprivation and even legal doses of alcohol when it comes to lowered driving performance and increased risk ...
Safe driving education should be part of routine teen physicals, experts say
Mar 24, 2009 |
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The "are you driving yet?" talk should become part of every pediatrician's regular physical exam for teenagers, Hopkins Children's experts say.
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Seat belt injuries could signal more serious trauma in children
Aug 09, 2007 |
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Ill-fitting seatbelts raise the risk of serious injury to children involved in car accidents. And seat belt injuries should alert physicians to look for signs of more serious consequences, particularly spinal cord injury, ...
Access to motorbikes without taking a prior exam increases the number of accidents
Aug 31, 2009 |
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Pedestrians and motorcyclists continue to be those most vulnerable in traffic accidents. A team of researchers has demonstrated an increase in the number of injuries among users of lightweight motorcycles ...
A new software to assess driving behaviour and driving risks
Jul 16, 2009 |
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One of the aims imposed by the European Union in 2004 is to reduce the number of traffic accidents. However, despite the measures taken by the different administrations and the consequent decrease in the number ...
Preventing traffic accidents before they happen?
Nov 05, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new automotive safety systems built by European researchers will alert drivers to potential hazards by using information from the car, other road users and the roadside infrastructure to predict and prevent ...
Liver disease responsible for most alcohol-related illness and deaths
Apr 23, 2009 |
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Liver disease is the most prevalent cause of alcohol-related deaths, followed by car accidents and cancer, according to new research conducted in Portugal and presented today at EASL 2009, the Annual Meeting of the European ...
The when, where, why of road accidents
Jan 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Who knows what 'aetiology' means? It's a branch of science dedicated to finding the causes of something. European researchers have been busy updating the aetiology of road accidents and studying ...
IBM Links SatNav to Car Radios
Sep 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM has filed a patent that could put an end to losing your favorite radio channels while you are driving long distances. Their idea is to combine satellite navigation with the car radio to ...
Intelligent steel for safer cars
Sep 18, 2007 |
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Each year, more than 200,000 car accidents occur in Germany. Car manufacturers devote much time, effort, and cost to developing new ways of protecting drivers and passengers.
FDA urges caution in weighing risks of ADHD drugs
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jun 15, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Federal health regulators are urging parents to keep their children on attention deficit drugs like Ritalin and Adderall, despite new evidence from a government-backed study that the stimulants can increase the risk ...
On the road to secure car-to-car communications
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A European research project works out how to keep car-to-car data transmissions private and secure from malicious hackers.
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