A child safety seat, “car seat”, or a “child restraint system”, is a restraint which is secured to the seat of an automobile equipped with safety harnesses to hold a child in the event of a crash. Most car seats for babies fail disastrously when subjected to side-impact crash tests, according to a study of seats available in the United States by a consumer magazine.
Neuroscientists at Duke University have mapped the timing and sequence of neural activations that unfold in the brain when people focus their attention on specific locations in their visual fields.
The Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Health, today launched a marketing campaign to raise awareness of the harmful health effects that second-hand smoke has on children, and how to reduce exposure to second-hand smoke in homes and cars.
Right now there’s no rapid way to diagnose sepsis, a fast-moving blood infection that is a leading cause of death in hospital intensive care units. New research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests that doctors one day could quickly distinguish sepsis from widespread non-infectious inflammation based on genetic profiles of patients’ blood.
Our everyday environments are full of airborne particles that are harmful to varying degrees when inhaled. Particularly damaging to our cellular DNA are the particles from the underground system in Stockholm, Sweden, according to a new doctoral thesis from Karolinska Institutet.
The Automatic Transport and Retrieval System, developed with help from engineers at Lehigh and Carnegie Mellon universities, also allows wheelchair users to drive without reconfiguring their vehicles. It will go on sale next spring.
To avoid pain associated with whiplash injury, safety considerations in cars could go beyond seat belts and airbags to examine the position of the driver and passenger head restraints, according to research at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. The study was conducted at the VA Medical Center in Milwaukee, a major teaching affiliate of the college.
A new study finds that “off-peak” electricity production and transmission capacity could fuel 84 percent of the country’s 220 million vehicles if they were plug-in hybrid electrics. This is the first review of what the impacts would be of very high market penetrations of PHEVs. Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory also evaluated the impact of PHEVs, on foreign oil imports, the environment, electric utilities and the consumer.
New tests and DNA evidence has apparently proved that the man driving Princess Diana (36) and Dodi Fayed (42), was drunk when he crashed in a tunnel in Paris in 1997.
Young infants should not be left unattended to sleep in standard car safety seats as they may be at risk of hypoxia say Tonkin and colleagues.