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Fatality Rates Increase with Repeal of Helmet Laws, MU Study Finds
Since 1975, more than 100,000 motorcycle riders in America have died in crashes. The majority of states required motorcycle helmets in 1975, but today, only 20 states have universal helmet laws that require all riders to wear helmets, 26 states have partial coverage laws (usually only for young... view more (2008-04-01)

Parents are the main source of tobacco for underage smokers
Parents and other older relatives are the primary sources of tobacco for underage smokers living in communities with strong enforcement of tobacco sales laws, finds a study in Tobacco Control. These results suggest that many current laws are too weak to reduce the availability of tobacco to minors... view more (2001-12-07)

Children in states with booster seat laws more likely to be appropriately restrained in car crashes
Children age 4 to 7 in states with booster seat laws appear more likely to be appropriately restrained during car crashes than children in states without booster seat laws.   view more (2007-03-06)

Dutch archaeologists uncover earliest Egyptian temple
The ground plan of the earliest of these temples is unlike anything previously discovered in Egypt, and no other sites are known where a similar series of temples was built one on top of the other and which date back so far. The archaeologists do not yet know which gods were worshipped in the... view more (2000-01-18)

State laws may limit implementation of CDC's recommendations for routine HIV testing
A new study concludes that routine testing for HIV recommended by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) may violate many state laws.   view more (2007-10-10)

Land conflicts due to accumulated legislation
Carelessly drawn up laws which come on top of older laws, lead to many land conflicts in rural South America. This is the conclusion of legal sociologist Esther Roquas from Wageningen, who has studied the background to land conflicts in Honduras. In 1980, government surveyors visited the village of... view more (2002-02-19)

Geophysical Research Letters European Highlights - 1 August 2001
Highlights 4. Deep water has many sources Hellmer and Beckmann ["The Southern Ocean: A Ventilation Contributor with Multiple Sources"] use a coupled ocean/ice-shelf model to determine the location and rate of Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) formation. Their results suggest that the Atlantic and... view more (2001-07-16)

Funding to develop tomorrow's technology
The University of Sussex is the only university to receive two awards from a new multi-million-pound government fund that aims to revolutionise scientific research and innovation. Two initiatives at Sussex are to be supported by the Basic Technology Research Programme, which is being managed by the... view more (2002-02-26)

Understanding teen attitudes critical to quit message
Teen attitudes to smoking need to be re-examined if anti-smoking health campaigns are to be effective, according to Hunter researchers.   view more (2008-03-18)

Disclosure laws provide only limited view of pharmaceutical company payments to physicians
Laws in two states requiring disclosure of pharmaceutical company payments to physicians do not provide the public with easy access to payment information and are of limited quality when accessed.   view more (2007-03-21)

Nanotech: A regulatory blueprint for the next administration
Nanotechnology will significantly change virtually every facet of the way we live. The next president has the opportunity to shape these changes and to ensure that nanotechnology's benefits will be maximized and its risks identified and controlled.   view more (2008-07-23)

TARGETED POLICING IS GOOD FOR PUBLIC HEALTH (p 1717)
A public-health article in this week's issue of THE LANCET proposes that an understanding of policing and the criminal justice system-especially the concept of deterrence-is integral to the implementation of effective public-health strategies worldwide. Jonathan Sheperd from the University of... view more (2001-11-14)

Physicists reveal water's secrets in journal 'Science'
It's essential to all life, and numerous research papers are published about it every year. Yet there are still secrets to reveal about water, that seemingly simple compound we know as H2O.   view more (2007-03-05)

Teens making poor choices when it comes to riding in vehicles
Injury prevention experts have long known that teens are less likely than other motorists to wear seat belts while driving. Now, researchers from the Meharry-State Farm Alliance at Meharry Medical College have discovered lack of seat belt use by teen passengers may be an even bigger problem.   view more (2008-08-28)

Drinking and driving -- Immediate removal of a driver's license saves hundreds of lives per year
Alcohol-impaired driving causes roughly 17,000 deaths per year, according to a 2006 study. While 46 states will suspend the driver's licenses of those caught driving while impaired (DWI), nine states do not have immediate license-revocation laws.   view more (2007-07-25)

Eye tissue shortage endangers clinical research's future
The future of clinical ophthalmology may be endangered by the decline in the number of human donor eyes provided by U.S. eye banks.   view more (2006-07-12)

Employers "should face jail" over bad workplaces
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) "has been a great disappointment" in its efforts to make UK working conditions safe, according to Dr Harry Waldron, writing in the March Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. Dr Waldron, an occupational medicine consultant from St Mary's Hospital,... view more (2001-03-05)

Minimum drinking age of 21 saves lives
One of the most comprehensive studies on the minimum drinking age shows that laws aimed at preventing consumption of alcohol by those under 21 have significantly reduced drinking-related fatal car crashes.   view more (2008-07-01)

Sweet smell
What makes one smell pleasant and another odious? Is there something in the chemistry of a substance that can serve to predict how we will perceive its smell?   view more (2007-09-18)

Depressed Patients May Need Treatment for both Physical and Emotional Symptoms
Physical symptoms (such as headache, back pain, stomach problems, joint or muscle pains, and dizziness) are nearly as common in depression as emotional symptoms and are the predominant complaint depressed patients present with in the primary care setting.   view more (2004-09-08)

Serious physical illness linked to suicide in later life
Most people who commit suicide late in life suffer from depression, but the role of physical illness is less clear. A study in this week’s BMJ finds that serious physical illness also carries an increased risk of suicide in elderly people.   view more (2002-06-05)

Childhood headaches influence adult health
Children who experience frequent headaches are at an increased risk of recurring headache and other physical and psychiatric symptoms in adulthood, finds a study in this week's BMJ. These findings may have implications for the health of today's children and their future wellbeing. Data from over... view more (2001-05-09)

Gap junction protein vital to successful pregnancy, researchers find
Researchers studying a critical stage of pregnancy - implantation of the embryo in the uterus - have found a protein that is vital to the growth of new blood vessels that sustain the embryo. Without this protein, which is produced in higher quantities in the presence of estrogen, the embryo is... view more (2008-09-11)

Concern over UK laws on genetic testing
In the February Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Anna Dixon, Anant Murthy and Dr Elias Mossialos raise concerns about the way insurers can use information from genetic tests. The authors, from the European Observatory on Health Care Systems at the London School of Economics & Political... view more (2001-02-05)

Genes and environment interact in first graders to predict physical but not social aggression
Physical aggression in children comes from their genes and the environment in which they grow up. Social aggression, such as spreading rumors or ignoring other children, has less to do with genetic factors and more with environmental factors.   view more (2008-02-07)
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