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GAMBLERS DON'T LEARN FROM THEIR MISTAKES THE STUDY 'Executive Function Abnormalities in Pathological Gamblers,' Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health, March 2008 THE FINDINGS A trip through Las Vegas [...]

Helmet use protects against head injury. Our objective was to assess whether parental knowledge of helmet safety is associated with helmet use in children, and whether a relationship exists between helmet ownership and other safety behaviors. Three hundred forty-one surveys were distributed to parents of third through fifth graders; 97% of parents believed that a helmet confers protection; 49% of parents reported that their child owns a helmet. Of the helmet owners, 27% reported that the child wears it more than 75% of the time. Seat belt usage was associated with helmet ownership (p=0.02) and frequency of wearing a helmet (p=0.04). Although parents are aware of the benefits, a barrier between helmet ownership and usage exists. Clin Pediatr. 2003;42:673-677, Introduction Accidental trauma is a common and preventable cause of injury and is the most common cause of death in the 1-34-year-old age group. (1) Notably, bicycle-related head injuries are [...]

Objectives: To assess the impact of a community based bicycle helmet programme aimed at children aged 5-12 years (about 140 000) from poor and well off municipalities. Methods: A quasi-experimental [...]

Objective: To obtain empirical data that might support or refuse the existence of a risk compensation mechanism in connection with voluntary helmet use by Spanish cyclists. Design: A retrospective case [...]

Objectives: To examine the attitudes of players and coaches to the use of protective headgear, particularly with respect to the prevention of concussion. Methods: A questionnaire designed to assess attitudes [...]

The purpose of this research was to explore the changes in children's bicycle helmet use and motor vehicle bicycle related injuries in Hillsborough County, Florida before and after passage of [...]

2002 WAS A SAD YEAR in the pole vault. The deaths of two high school and one college vaulters due to head and neck injuries recreated the vigorous debate on [...]

When it comes to sports and gamoidaying, saving face can mean more than covering up for an embarrassment. it can literally mean 'saving your face.' How? By using the correct [...]

...Massachusetts State Senator STEVEN PANAGIOTAKOS for proposing a bill requiring children under the age of 13 to wear helmets while skiing or sledding. When late-season storms pounded New England last [...]

Abstract Objective--To study attitudes towards and use of bicycle helmets among schoolchildren; to determine whether these attitudes are associated with the involvement of parents and school in bike safety. Settings--Nine [...]

Risk taking is influenced by people's perception of safety and danger EDITOR--Rivara et al in their editorial on bicycle helmets offer the study by Cook and Sheikh in the same [...]

On a visceral level, wearing a ski helmet makes sense. Skiing does have inherent risks, as the backs of lift tickets never fail to remind us: hard snow and ice, [...]

Helmet use has been shown to be effective in reducing the extent of injury in both motorcycle and bicycle accidents. Motorcycle helmet use reduces the incidence of severe head injuries [...]

Exact numbers of injuries to cyclists in Britain are impossible to obtain but may be as high as 100 000 a year. In 1985 296 pedal cyclists were killed.[1] In [...]

There are three facts to emphasise about cycling: it is safe; it is green; and it is healthy.[1] Police statistics for Great Britain in 1990 show that car drivers had [...]

Debate about the benefits of helmets for pedal cyclists continues,[1-7] and the main arguments are summarised on pages 881-3.[8 9] Helmets are advocated by the Department of Transport,[10] the Parliamentary [...]

The US National Ski Areas Association is trying to encourage parents to put lids on their kids and will get a boost with the help of a new website designed [...]

Bicycle helmets reduce the risk of head injury in children by 85%, but many children do not wear them, The results of this survey provide explanations for why children do [...]