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 'highway'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:11:08 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4577906&cid=t_133372_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fred-light-cameras-save-lives%2F2011.03.12 Most people don’t like them. Privacy advocates abhor them. But, really– how many things can you name that save lives AND generate revenues for cash-strapped local and state governments? Red-light cameras are one such item. A recent study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has shown that red-light cameras saved 159 lives over a four-year period in the 14 large U.S. cities where the study took place. The scientists claimed that more than 800 traffic fatalities would have been prevented during the course of the study if the cameras had been deployed in all large U.S. cities. The scientists compared fatal car crash rates in U.S. cities with populations of at least 200,000 for two four-year periods: 1992 to 1996 and 2004 to 2008. They excluded cities that had already deploy... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4577906 Sat, 12 Mar 2011 15:00:34 +0100 4577906 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4436750&cid=t_133372_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Ftoo-drunk-to-drive-your-car-will-tell-you-if-s%2F2011.02.04 Drunk driving continues to be a serious problem. In 2009 for example, alcohol was a factor in more than 10,000 highway deaths. The same year, a stunning 10 percent of respondents to a survey of U.S. adults said they had operated an automobile while drunk during the previous year. Nearly 6 percent said they had done it more than once. So how would you feel about a car that can instantly detect whether a driver is drunk and prevent that person from starting the car? You better make up your mind quickly, because scientists are close to perfecting this technology. “We’re five to seven years away from being able to integrate this into cars,” Robert Strassburger, the VP for safety at the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers (AAM) told the Washington Post. The AAM, an automotive trade... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4436750 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:00:23 +0100 4436750 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4433079&cid=t_133372_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=3890474&cid=t_133372_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fdr-frank-ryans-death-what-we-can-learn-from-it%2F2010.08.21 I’ll be honest — I’d never heard of Dr. Frank Ryan, a Hollywood plastic surgeon, until his tragic motor vehicle accident recently. Clients included actress Heidi Montag and boxer Oscar De La Hoya. Although the California Highway Patrol investigation isn’t complete, rumors have suggested that Dr. Ryan may have been text messaging when driving. If this is true and an intelligent, well-trained doctor can fall prey to the allure of technology, then what does it mean for the rest of us? First, realize that we can’t multitask. You have one brain. You can focus at one task at a time. Though laws allow hands-free cellphone calls, the issue isn’t trying to dial the phone but rather that the mind is engaged in the conversation and not on the road. Yes, we ar... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3890474 Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:00:00 +0100 3890474 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3823005&cid=t_133372_113_f&fid=38236&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthcareitnews.com%2Fblog%2Fhies-public-interest The Health Information Exchange (HIE) market is the Wild West right now.  Vendors are telling us that they are seeing an unprecedented level of activity both for private and public HIEs.  Private HIEs are being set-up by large and small healthcare organizations to more tightly align affiliated physicians to a hospital or IDN to drive referrals and longer term, better manage transitions in care in anticipation of payment reform.  Public HIEs are those state driven initiatives that have blossomed with the $560M+ of federal funding via the HITECH Act. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog) Healthcare IT News Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3823005 Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:44:46 +0100 3823005 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3552222&cid=t_133372_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F5zsLLQTMgPE%2F By Jim HarperI was pleased last week to testify in Congress about a draft bill that would mandate “event data recorders” in all new cars. Automobile black boxes or “EDRs” are an issue that found me a few years ago when I commented on their privacy consequences to a newspaper and heard from concerned drivers across the country. My testimony to the House Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection had three main themes: 1) The Constitution doesn’t give Congress authority to design automobiles or their safety features; 2) Only a relevant sample of crash data is needed to improve auto safety—overspending on a 100% EDR mandate will keep the poor in older, more dangerous cars and undermine auto safety for that cohort; an... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3552222 Mon, 10 May 2010 20:25:46 +0100 3552222 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3224872&cid=t_133372_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F01%2F30%2Fwhy-crash-rates-dont-automatically-fall-with-cellphone-bans%2F Last week, the Highway Loss Data Institute released a report that examined whether collision claims had gone up, down, or stayed the same in states that have banned cellphone use while driving. Their findings should have surprised no one, but seemed to have surprised everyone — crash rates did not go down after a hand-held cellphone ban took effect. Why should this have been of little surprise? 1. A law doesn’t automatically change human behavior. Laws can be wonderful things, but they are only as effective as when people obey them. This is often done with a stick — enforcement — rather than a carrot (such as incentives for safe driving practices). The laws have, according to the New York Times reporting on this study, reduced the use of hand-held cellphones 41 to 7... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3224872 Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:06:56 +0100 3224872 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2943866&cid=t_133372_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F10%2F29%2Fthe-homeless-highway-gentleman%2F The homeless highway gentleman walks as if he’s on a mission. He walks alongside a busy stretch of highway in southern New Hampshire every day, roughly at the same time, wearing the exact same clothes. You can tell he’s a gentleman because he wears a faded, outdated tan sports jacket. It’s seen better days, but so has the gentleman. He’s older, balding, and very much on his own. And yet, when you see him, you notice he has a sense of civilized purpose and dignity about him. It’s how and where he walks that gets people’s attention. He doesn’t walk on the grassy berm next to the four-lane highway, he walks right in the gutter on the road, often in the right-hand most lane. If you were a distracted driver and were fiddling with your cell phone or radi... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2943866 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:03:23 +0100 2943866 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2788950&cid=t_133372_101_f&fid=38980&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.medicthree.com%2F2009%2F07%2Ftrooper-daniel-martin-v-maurice-white.html Patricia Phillips of the Oklahoma Crime Examiner has posted up some great new news about Trooper Douche Bag Daniel Martin. He has been suspended FIVE WHOLE DAYS without pay!!!! Whoooopeee! You've gotta read the letter she has posted.Martin Letter Fox23.com also has news up that Mr. White is suing Trooper Martin. Dumb ass. Read the letter and head over to Patricia's story to leave a comment. Tell her I sent ya! The letter is hard to believe. I will post up a comment or two in the morning!FOX23 has new information in the case of the now infamous confrontation between an Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper and a paramedic.The paramedic, Maurice White has filed a civil lawsuit against Trooper Daniel Martin; accusing him of using "unr... medic(THREE) blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2788950 Thu, 23 Jul 2009 05:48:00 +0100 2788950 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2347783&cid=t_133372_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FXoayINLz6MA%2F The Obama administration believes in recycling, as shown by the so-called high-speed rail plan it announced last week. Below is a map of the plan, and below that is a map of the Federal Railroad Administration’s 2005 high-speed rail plan. As you can see, the proposed routes are identical. (The grey lines on the first map represent conventional Amtrak routes.) Of course, this is a time-honored practice. Eisenhower’s Interstate Highway System was really the Bureau of Public Roads’ Interregional Highway System. There is no doubt that the Federal Railroad Administration is thrilled that Obama has adopted its plan. Yet there are several problems with Obama’s plan. First, it is important to understand that most of Obama’s plan is not bullet trains or TGVs. Instea... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2347783 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:27:30 +0100 2347783 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2263772&cid=t_133372_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 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2104992&cid=t_133372_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2F511462725%2F Good article in the New York Times today: An Epidemic of Crashes Among the Aging? Unlikely, Study Says - "The (Insurance Institute for Highway Driving) insurance institute is conducting further research to determine why the risks appear to be going down for older drivers. It may be that today’s older drivers are simply in better physical and mental shape than their counterparts a decade ago, so they are not only less likely to make a driving mistake, but also less frail and better able to survive injuries." There is no doubt that, as a group, older persons of any given age are in better physical and mental shape today than their counterparts years ago. For context, worldwide life expectancy has increased more than 20 years in less than 6o years - so you can imagine how a person... SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2104992 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:09:36 +0100 2104992 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1660722&cid=t_133372_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F07%2F28%2Fwhen-panic-attacks-in-the-lehigh-tunnel%2F Mapquest said it was a three hour trip. But I knew better; it would take me nearly five hours to get home for my Christmas break from school. Was I a slow driver? No, not particularly. Was there a chance of snow? Not at all; blue skies all around. Was I planning on taking a two-hour break at one of the turnpike’s service plazas? No; a fast-food meal there would take twenty minutes, tops. Was I banking on getting lost? No, I’m one of those map nerds who enjoys aiding lost friends via telephone with the full-sized map of Pennsylvania that I (seriously!) have tacked to my bedroom wall. The three-hour trip from grad school in Newark, Delaware to my hometown of Kingston, Pennsylvania was going to take five hours because I couldn’t stand driving through the Lehigh Tunnel. It’s a long t... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1660722 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:25:11 +0100 1660722 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1655528&cid=t_133372_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F346437995%2F “No” was Charlie’s not unsurprising response—-with his eyebrows (no other word describes it) furrowed—-when I told him we’d have to drive the bluish Mercury Milan parked across the condo parking lot. Jim had rented it late Thursday night at Newark airport and I’m sure Charlie had paid it no attention when he got on the bus Friday morning. Now he was standing beside the black car, whose right rear tire was a small spare with a yellow sticker and looking forlorn. I tried to find words to explain: “It has a flat tire—the tire’s broken” (what in the world was I saying? “broken tire” sounds like those ragged black strips from a semi’s recap tires strewn on the shoulder of the Interstate). “Remember how we ... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1655528 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:05:25 +0100 1655528 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1561376&cid=t_133372_117_f&fid=36026&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.healthtalk.com%2Fzimney%2Fcell-phones-and-driving-dont-go-together%2F Today new laws go into effect in Washington (where I live) and in California (the most populous state – a full 12 percent of Americans live there!) banning the use of hand-held cell phones while driving. Washington and California join Connecticut, D.C., New Jersey and New York in having such cell phone bans. While I welcome these new laws, I don’t think they go far enough because research has shown that it’s not the number of hands you have available for driving, but rather how much attention you’re paying to your driving that’s important in crash prevention. Yet no state bans all cell phone use while driving, and the ones noted above don’t prohibit hands-free phoning (a list of all the various state laws is provided by the Governors Highway Safety Association). Driver inattent... Dr. Z's Medical Report blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1561376 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:14:06 +0100 1561376 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1268449&cid=t_133372_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F243216403%2F I was talking to two of my students yesterday about classes for next year, their majors, scholarships and fellowships. Both had looked at websites for scholarships, and read the biographies of the winners, of college students who, while maintaining the highest GPAs, playing varsity sports, and conducting research in molecular biology, create medical clinics in foreign countries, develop plans for peace between various warring nations, play first violin in the orchestra, write poetry, serve as the editor for the campus newspaper and win the prize for best thesis…… “How does anyone do all that, Dr. Chew?” my students asked me, pointing out that they could hardly go for a year to an “underdeveloped nation” and teach English in an orphanage: Most of my stude... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1268449 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:16:06 +0100 1268449 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1190049&cid=t_133372_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F226282525%2F Jonathan Anderson is 9 years old and has Asperger Syndrome—-when his mother, Marion Anderson, blacked out while driving on the highway, he avoided a crash by grabbing the steering wheel, pulling on the handbrake, and driving the car across three lanes of rush-hour traffic at Plympton, Devon, the January 31st Daily Mail reports. Jonathan and his mother were both uninjured: “‘It was scary because I’ve never driven a car before,’” he was quoted as saying. Sounds like he knew what to do, and at the right time—bravo. Tags: accident, asd, asperger, autism, autism spectrum disorder, car, children, Family, highway, mothers, pdd-nos, Psychology, thyroidShare This (Source: Autism Vox) Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1190049 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:58:24 +0100 1190049 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=949703&cid=t_133372_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F169674291%2F Occasionally something happens, usually something small and fleeting, and I just know, that flicker of a moment sums up so much about our life with Charlie, with autism (and “with autism” is the right term here, I think, rather than “autistic”). It sums up what it feels like, and how far Charlie has come, and how our family’s life is no fight against autism the “common enemy,” as the Bergen Record, puts it. So many things are not easy for Charlie: He is disabled and the list of limitations to his life often seems to grow longer everyday, as the differences between Charlie and the children his age only seems to grow. Charlie does not have any friends who are his age. He is (as far as I can tell) fond enough of the other boys in his class, is ever m... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=949703 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 08:31:10 +0100 949703 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=915063&cid=t_133372_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F163123279%2F Andrew Seong Nam Chan was 11 years old and had moved a few years ago from China to New Zealand with his family. Andrew has autism and attended the Fairhaven Special School in Hawke’s Bay. NZPA news reports that, on Friday night, Andrew had gotten out of his house and was running along the middle of State Highway 50 when he was struck by a car about 6.45 pm. Police had been alerted about a boy running along the road shortly before Andrew was killed. I always call out “CHARLIE” too loud and race after him if he even seems to be heading for the edge of the sidewalk—-he is learning to “stay on the sidewalk” and to cross the street. But vigilance is a way of life for Jim and me. Many, many condolences to Andrew’s family. Share This (Source: Autism Vox) Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=915063 Sun, 30 Sep 2007 02:55:54 +0100 915063 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=894230&cid=t_133372_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F160550382%2F On our way home from a September swim in the ocean, we stopped at a rest stop on the Garden State Parkway to refuel (and re-soda). As Jim paid the cashier and Charlie checked out the chip selection just in case he could get something else (on top of a burger and fries meal heavy-on-the-ketchup and with a side of rice from his dad’s plate), I looked at a local paper and the words “bus-driver concerns shouted out to me in a front-page article in the Home News Tribune. I only had time to read the first two paragraphs: In one case, a 4-year-old student at Franklin Park Elementary School was left stranded on a school bus last Friday for five hours because the now-fired driver failed to sweep the vehicle to make sure no children remained. In another, a substitute bus driver resigned ... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=894230 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:43:39 +0100 894230 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=829969&cid=t_133372_87_f&fid=34867&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thediabetesblog.com%2F2007%2F08%2F29%2Fca-man-leads-police-on-bizarre-low-speed-car-chase%2F Filed under: Daily NewsYes, you read correctly. Low-speed car chase. Not something you see in the news too often, right?Jacob Kells (30) is from Santa Rosa, CA. He has diabetes. Last Thursday, Kells got behind the wheel of a rented U-Haul truck. Oh, what a bad idea. He was obviously having low blood sugar issues because he caused several minor hit-and-run crashes that morning. Kells would not respond to police calls for him to pull over. Result: the cops had to tail him all, slowly, all the way from Redwood City to Gilroy.When the police finally caught up with him, Kells was reportedly sweating and incoherent. The officers, obviously aware his state was diabetes-related, gave him glucose paste then got him to hospital, pronto. He was later arrested and taken in for psychological assessment... The Diabetes Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=829969 Wed, 29 Aug 2007 04:00:00 +0100 829969