Evaluation of Brain Rotational Injury Criteria (BrIC) in vehicle frontal crashes - Prasad P, Barbat SD, Kalra A, Kim AS, Dalmotas DD, Zhang L.
The objective of this study was to estimate strains in the human brain in regulatory, research, and due care frontal crashes by simulating those impacts. In addition, brain strain simulations were estimated for belted human volunteer tests and i...
Source: SafetyLit - September 20, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

Hope as a moderator of intimate partner violence and suicide risk behaviors among Latinas - Edwards LM, Torres L, Lewis KD, Loyo K.
The current study investigated the role of hope in the relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV) and suicide risk behaviors among a community sample of Latinas (N  = 180). Moderation analyses revealed significant interaction effects demonstrating...
Source: SafetyLit - September 20, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Risk Factor Prevalence, Injury Occurrence Source Type: news

How do people perceive driving risks in small towns? A case study in Central Texas - Li X, Rybarczyk G, Li W, Usman M, Bian J, Chen A, Ye X.
This study aims to investigate this dynamic within an understudied transportation environment - small towns in Texas, US...
Source: SafetyLit - September 20, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Risk Factor Prevalence, Injury Occurrence Source Type: news

Study Finds Firearm Injuries Increased in Gentrified Neighborhoods
Brigham researchers reported that gentrified neighborhoods had a 62 percent higher firearm injury incidence rate than non-gentrified communities with comparable sociodemographic characteristics
Source: BWH News - September 20, 2023 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news

DOJ investigates Elon Musk perks at Tesla
The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating the personal benefits that Tesla may have provided its CEO Elon Musk since 2017 as part of a criminal probe that is also looking into the use of company funds to build a proposed glass house. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of…#tesla #elonmusk #austinarea #walterisaacson #isaacson #austin #coloradoriver #gigatexas #zackkirkhorn #cfo
Source: Reuters: Health - September 19, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

DOJ Broadens Probe Into Alleged Tesla-Funded Glass House For Musk
Federal prosecutors are probing whether Tesla’s company resources were used to supply personal benefits to CEO Elon Musk as early as 2017, farther back then previously known, according to people familiar with the investigation who also said prosecutors have made allusions to the involvement of a…#tesla #elonmusk #austin #journal #internaltesla
Source: Reuters: Health - September 19, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Elon Musk Glass House Case Sees Justice Department Looking Into Personal Benefits From Tesla: The Latest Details
Billionaire and Tesla Inc TSLA CEO Elon Musk faces an investigation from the Justice Department over a secretive project that included rumors of a glass house being built. Here’s the latest in the ongoing case. What Happened: The wealth of Musk has increased substantially in recent years, on the…#teslainctsla #elonmusk #justicedepartment #tesla #wsj #austin #walterisaacson #callsfor
Source: Reuters: Health - September 19, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Cycle Syncing Won ’ t Fix Women ’ s Fitness
While most of the video series and programs available on the popular “holistic wellness”/fitness site Alo Moves—owned by the trendy activewear line Alo Yoga—are run by solitary instructors, the company’s newest offering is marked by photos and videos of a group of four women pulled close up against one another and roaming Hawaiian beaches. It’s a clearly symbolic presentation of the company’s new SYNCD program, a collection of 24 videos designed to guide users through self-care and fitness activities customized for each of the four phases of the menstrual cycle. The program, whi...
Source: TIME: Health - September 19, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Haley Weiss Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

Inflicted head-injury by shaking-trauma in infants: the importance of spatiotemporal variations of the head's rotation center - Schiks LAH, Dankelman J, Loeve AJ.
Inflicted head injury by shaking trauma (IHI-ST) in infants is a type of abusive head trauma often simulated computationally to investigate causalities between violent shaking and injury. This is commonly done with the head's rotation center kept fixed ove...
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Infants and Children Source Type: news

The role of paranasal sinus fluid in determining drowning as the cause of death: a systematic review and meta-analysis - da Trindade RQ, Duarte Morais Vieira MG, Vieira RB, Vicentin-Junior CA, Damascena NP, Santiago BM, Martins-Filho PR, Palhares Machado CE.
Drowning is a significant global cause of unintentional injury fatalities, and accurate forensic diagnosis of drowning remains a challenge due to the nonspecific nature of post-mortem findings obtained through classical autopsy methods. Our manuscript addr...
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Drowning, Suffocation Source Type: news

Prevalence of alcohol and other drug detections in non-transport injury events - Lau G, Mitra B, Gabbe BJ, Dietze PM, Reeder S, Cameron PA, Smit DV, Schneider HG, Symons E, Koolstra C, Stewart C, Beck B.
OBJECTIVE: To measure the prevalence of alcohol and/or other drug (AOD) detections in suspected major trauma patients with non-transport injuries who presented to an adult major trauma centre. METHODS: This registry-based cohort study examined the ...
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Call to action: the rise of pediatric gun violence during the COVID-19 Pandemic - Schauss E, Zettler H, Hawes K, Rashed J, Roberts S, Ahern B, Bartelli D, Li C, Burgess M, Williams R.
This study examines and describes circumstances involving non-fatal firearm injuries in a pediatric population from a Level I Pediatric Trauma Center in the southeastern U.S. Researchers analyzed Firearm Injury Questionnaire (FIQ) data collected from 144 c...
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Community features' varying insight into emergency department use for different childhood injuries - Howard KA, Griffin SF, Stuenkel M, Sease KK.
BACKGROUND: Community-level factors, including poverty level, minority population, and rurality are predictive of child injury rates. Community-based interventions targeting high-risk communities have been suggested for prevention and are reliant on unders...
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Road traffic injury-related disabilities in geriatric population - Y ıldırım M, Cavlak M, Tastekin B, Akçan R, Tumer AR, Balseven-Odabaşi A.
Background The geriatric population, which constitutes ten percent of the world's population as of 2021, has been increasingly involved in traumatic conditions including road traffic injuries. In this article, geriatric cases transferred to a forensic med...
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news

Special report from the CDC: provider knowledge and practices around driving safety and fall prevention screening and recommendations for their older adult patients, DocStyles 2019 - Ortmann N, Haddad YK, Beck L.
INTRODUCTION: Falls and motor-vehicle crashes (MVCs) are leading causes of unintentional injury deaths among older adults (65+) in the United States. Injury prevention resources exist to help healthcare providers reduce fall and MVC risk among older adult ...
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news

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