It would be comforting to know that the large pharmaceutical companies are wonderful corporate citizens whose primary purpose in life is to develop drugs and medical devices that will improve the quality of life for everyone on earth. And if you watch enough of the drug industry’s incessant advertising and marketing efforts, which now total […]
Archives for November 2008
Teach Teenagers How to Drink: Preventing Personal Injuries and Wrongful Deaths
Our current approach to teaching young people the truths about alcohol and our efforts to instill in young people responsible attitudes toward drinking simply do not work. The body of evidence that reveals our failures is huge. Binge drinking by college students, fraternity hazings that involve poisonous quantities of alcohol, deaths from massive alcohol consumption […]
Personal Injury Prevention: Sit Back from Air Bags, Children in the Backseat
Air bags and seat belts save lives. But airbags can cause permanent injuries and death from spinal cord and brain injuries, especially in children and anyone of short stature who sits in the front seat close to the steering wheel or dashboard. Massive decelerations in crashes occur in one-tenth of a second. That is faster […]