MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'fatalities'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 03:02:23 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4433079&cid=t_369898_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F8GjrC8HQWf0%2F By Walter OlsonNew York state senator Carl Kruger (D-Brooklyn) is crusading to ban pedestrians' use of cellphones and other mobile devices while crossing the street. It's for your own good, you must understand: “When people are doing things that are detrimental to their own well being, then government should step in.” The Daily Caller asked me to write an opinion piece about this proposal so I just did. Excerpt: Phone use on the street has become near-ubiquitous in recent years, yet over nearly all that time — nationally as in Gotham — pedestrian death rates were falling steadily, just as highway fatalities fell steadily over the years in which “distracted driving” became a big concern. In the first half of 2010, the national statistics showed a tiny upward blip (0.4 percent), ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4433079 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 21:45:43 +0100 4433079 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3611910&cid=t_369898_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fremembrance-and-rules-for-cyclists-and-motorists%2F2010.05.29 This third installment of “Cycling Wednesdays” comes as a guest post from Rachel Fagerburg. Rachel is a dear friend, mother of two young children, fellow cyclist, and wife of a teammate. She is famous in this area for her talent as a race announcer. I am grateful for her words: On May 19, my husband and I joined thousands across the globe to honor cyclists who have been injured or killed while cycling on public roadways. With 1,000 participants at the first ride in 2003, the Ride of Silence has grown to a worldwide event raising awareness of the tragedies that can occur between motorists and cyclists. My husband and I rode in honor of two people we were privileged to call “friend.” (more…) *This blog post was originally published at Dr John M* (Source... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3611910 Sat, 29 May 2010 12:00:00 +0100 3611910 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3610328&cid=t_369898_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fsafety-rules-of-the-road-for-cyclists-and-motorists%2F2010.05.29 This third installment of “Cycling Wednesdays” comes as a guest post from Rachel Fagerburg. Rachel is a dear friend, mother of two young children, fellow cyclist, and wife of a teammate. She is famous in this area for her talent as a race announcer. I am grateful for her words: On May 19, my husband and I joined thousands across the globe to honor cyclists who have been injured or killed while cycling on public roadways. With 1,000 participants at the first ride in 2003, the Ride of Silence has grown to a worldwide event raising awareness of the tragedies that can occur between motorists and cyclists. My husband and I rode in honor of two people we were privileged to call “friend.” (more…) *This blog post was originally published at Dr John M* (Source... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3610328 Sat, 29 May 2010 12:00:00 +0100 3610328 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3122201&cid=t_369898_151_f&fid=36896&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FSuboxoneTalkZone%2F%7E3%2Fb0Wiv1AfTyw%2F I frequently point out the lack of outrage over the epidemic of opiate dependence and the consequence of that epidemic.  I live in ‘middle America,’ and sometimes it seems that everyone I know has some connection to opiate dependence– a relative who is an addict, a friend who died, a parent who is in prison.  My perceptions are admittedly distorted by the work that I do, but I don’t know who has the more accurate perceptions; me or the people who seem surprised to hear that most high school kids know where they could get heroin.  Addicts who I treat who come down from the U.P. of Michigan tell me that heroin is very easy to get up there now, even cheaper than oxycodone.  I guess that’s to be expected, given the horrible economic situation up there.  One... Suboxone Talk Zone blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3122201 Sat, 26 Dec 2009 04:56:51 +0100 3122201 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2263772&cid=t_369898_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FuhDfuTVr3Mw%2F Does the policy of setting a national drinking age reduce highway fatalities? In Friday’s Cato Daily Podcast, Jeffrey Miron, senior lecturer in economics at Harvard University, talks about the research he and student Elina Tetelbaum (now a Yale Law student) carried out on that question: What we find is that the only area where there is any evidence for efficacy of the law are states that adopted a higher drinking on their own without any compulsion. For the states that the feds forced … to raise [their] drinking age, there is no evidence of a beneficial reduction in traffic fatalities… We conclude quite strongly that it’s only when a state chooses a higher drinking age on its own, it’s only when it decides its going to devote enforcement resources and when there’s public ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2263772 Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:00:09 +0100 2263772