Sentences with phrase «more injuries and deaths»

It's also a time when we start seeing more injuries and deaths as a result of school bus accidents in Indiana and elsewhere in the country.

Research suggests that many homes that are adequately baby proofed are missing one important element that leads o more injuries and death than any other childhood malady.

Not exact matches

His attorneys have already conceded that he committed the bombings and attacks that resulted in four deaths and more than 260 injuries.

Injuries, suicide, and homicide were the top three causes of death, killing more than 8,000 teens in 2016.

At least 70 deaths have been reported along with many injuries and tens of thousands driven from their homes as more than 50 inches of rain caused catastrophic flooding, particularly in the Houston area.

Those were just some of the signs that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, accused of masterminding the Boston Marathon bombings, had adopted a virulent strain of Islam that led to the deaths of four people and injury of more than 260.

It's interesting to note that we have more gun related deaths and injuries in this country than all those terrorist attacks put together.

There are unconfirmed reports of deaths and injuries after police stormed the building (pictured) following a hostage incident lasting more than 16 hours.

How does one compare the suffering caused by trapping to the suffering inflicted by toxicants that cause death through internal injury and is thereby more difficult to quantify?

Whether or not we personally watch the excessive amounts of TV violence, enough people do see the violence so that there is more crime, more abuse, more injuries, and more deaths in our society than if we did not have the TV violence.

The film focuses on the events that unfolded before, during and after the horrifying afternoon that led to the deaths of 96 people as well as the injuries to several hundred more and the traumatization of countless lives.

While it may appear to be more likely that the married and / or living together couples among us may have a loved one nearby at the moment when life can change — whether because of something like stroke, heart - attack, head injury or death — there's no guarantee that he or she will be there.

Available free of charge on MomsTEAM's new SmartTeams concussion website, the #TeamUp4ConcussionSafetyTM program, developed by MomsTEAM Institute as part of its SmartTeams Play SafeTM initiative with a Mind Matters Educational Challenge Grant from the National Collegiate Athletic Association and Department of Defense, is designed to do just that: to increase reporting by athletes of concussion symptoms by engaging coaches, athletes, parents, and health care providers in a season - long, indeed career - long program which emphasizes that immediate reporting of concussion symptoms - not just by athletes themselves but by their teammate «buddies» - not only reduces the risk the athlete will suffer a more serious brain injury - or, in rare cases, even death - but is actually helps the team's chances of winning, not just in that game, but, by giving athletes the best chance to return as quickly as possible from concussion, the rest of the season, and by teaching that honest reporting is a valued team behavior and a hallmark of a good teammate.

If an athlete is allowed to continue playing after concussion, however, their recovery is likely to take longer, and they may be at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and, in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.

When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.)

Women run 5 to 7 times the risk of death with cesarean section compared with vaginal birth.14, 29 Complications during and after the surgery include surgical injury to the bladder, uterus and blood vessels (2 per 100), 30 hemorrhage (1 to 6 women per 100 require a blood transfusion), 30 anesthesia accidents, blood clots in the legs (6 to 20 per 1000), 30 pulmonary embolism (1 to 2 per 1000), 30 paralyzed bowel (10 to 20 per 100 mild cases, 1 in 100 severe), 30 and infection (up to 50 times morecommon).1 One in ten women report difficulties with normal activities two months after the birth, 23 and one in four report pain at the incision site as a major problem.9 One in fourteen still report incisional pain six months or more after delivery.9 Twice as many women require rehospitalization as women having normal vaginal birth.18 Especially with unplanned cesarean section, women are more likely to experience negative emotions, including lower self - esteem, a sense of failure, loss of control, and disappointment.

Research shows that death by injury is around six times more likely for those ages 15 to 19 as compared to children between ages 10 and 14.

According to the CPSC, there were at least 36 television tip - over deaths and 65 furniture tip - over deaths between 2000 and 2005; many more injuries were treated in emergency rooms.

Every homebirth that turns out fine just confirms these nuts in their nuttery, and every one that ends up in an injury or death leaves the families in shambles, either holding on to their ideology more tightly than ever, unable to face the reality of what they've done, or else facing that reality full in the face every day and trying to go on, knowing that your choices led to your child's needless death.

More states are trying to pass legislation allowing children to consent to vaccines, a procedure that comes with a risk of injury and death.

* Overall severe morbidity and mortality defined as one or more of the following: death, postpartum bleeding, genital tract injury; wound disruption, wound infection, or both; systemic infection.

Crib safety standards have changed over the years — not more than a few years ago, cribs had drop - sides which were implicated in safety issues (sides detached, resulting in injuries and in some cases, death).

Deaths, injuries, and property damage from consumer product incidents cost the nation more than $ 1 trillion annually.

While great progress has been achieved in recent years in preventing child occupant deaths and injuries, and increasing the correct use of child safety seats, booster seats and safety belts — thanks in no small measure to the tireless dedication of NHTSA and its many partners in the child passenger safety community — more work needs to be done to protect child occupants who remain at heightened risk.»

The report found that dropside cribs accounted for more than half of the reported injuries and 10 of the 16 deaths reported by CPSC in recall notices.

Damages from unsafe consumer products cost the U.S. more than $ 700 billion per year, but thanks to CPSC there has been a 30 % drop in injuries and deaths from consumer products in the last 30 years.

«Most people understand intellectually that on your standard vacation trip or business trip, the ride to and from the airport is more likely to result in your injury or death than the plane ride itself, but you never see anybody applaud when they reach the airport safely in the car.»

Last month the media was dominated by the xenophobic violence that has resulted in the deaths of seven people and the injury of many more.

Head injuries are the leading cause of death and permanent disability in bicycle crashes, accounting for more than 60 percent of bike - related deaths.

At least five deaths and more than a dozen injuries were reported by this morning in the aftermath of Harvey, the hurricane that tore across the Gulf Coast of Texas over the weekend.

Government statistics claim that serious injuries are falling much more rapidly than deaths, but the committee questioned the accuracy of the injury data and whether the government «is really going to meet its road safety targets».

As I've been reporting a story about the opioid epidemic, I've sorted through a lot of tragic numbers that make the astronomical spike in deaths and injuries related to the drugs feel more real.

The nearly 33,000 road deaths and more than 3.9 million injuries in 2010 cost Americans $ 871 billion in economic loss and societal harm, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there are more than 126,000 unintentional injury deaths in the U.S. each year, making it the fifth leading cause of death.

About 30 percent say they think there will be many more «deaths and injuries» from floods and hurricanes over the next 20 years if nothing is done to address climate change.

One of the obvious consequences of increased development will be more deaths and injuries from traffic accidents, and tobacco - related deaths are also expected to surge, accounting for 10 percent of all fatalities by 2015.

With 38,300 deaths and 4.4 million serious injuries on U.S. roads in 2015 alone, it would be worth the risk to let autonomous cars roam more freely and «learn» faster, Kornhauser says.

The case for limiting the use of benzodiazepines is particularly strong for patients 65 and older, who are more susceptible to falls, injuries, accidental overdose and death when taking the drugs.

«Substance - related problems such as binge drinking, driving under the influence of alcohol, and risky sexual behavior are more important than others due to their association with reckless driving, automobile accidents, physical injuries and even death, as well as risk for sexually transmitted disease and unplanned pregnancy.»

Researchers confronted volunteers with such scenarios and found that those with VMPC injury were three times more likely than healthy people to advocate throwing the person to certain death for the good of the many.

Bambi and his kind cause more 200 humans deaths each year, plus some 29,000 injuries, all because of 1.2 million collisions between vehicles and deer.

He notes how the «individualization of victims... has made it more politically palatable for the US... to engage in a seemingly perpetual war», causing death and injury from Iraq and Afghanistan to Pakistan and Yemen.

One key need, it says, is simply more and better information on how many guns are in the United States and how often they cause death or injury.

«Although we did not find the overall traffic - related fatality rate to predict policy adoption, the size of the population ages 15 to 24 years — the group most at risk for death and injury from impaired driving — was associated with first time policy adoption, suggesting that states might be initially more receptive to regulation when it involves protecting younger populations,» said study author Diana Silver, associate professor of public health at NYU Steinhardt and NYU College of Global Public Health.

According to the study published in Hepatology, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, liver injury caused by non-bodybuilding supplements is most severe, occurring more often in middle - aged women and more frequently resulting in death or the need for transplantation than liver injury from bodybuilding supplements or conventional medications.»

«While children with gunshot wounds made up only 1 percent of the sample, they accounted for more than 20 percent of deaths following injury and a disproportionate share of hospital costs,» said Nathan Kuppermann, M.D., M.P.H., professor and chair of emergency medicine at the UC Davis Medical Center and co-author of the study.

This is why suicide has surpassed car crashes as the leading cause of injury death, why a full third of employees suffer chronic debilitating stress, and why more than half of all «millennials» (18 to 33 year olds) experience a level of stress that keeps them awake at night with insomnia.

UPDATED, 3:50 PM: Dylan O'Brien's injuries have turned out to be far more serious than initially reported, and production on Maze Runner: The Death Cure has been suspended indefinitely while he recovers.

Instead of more police and more guns that would create enormous fear, trauma and risk of injury or death, we need safety and disciplinary practices that will actually support and protect children from harm.

That requires more time, tools, and involves compressing a spring (which is dangerous, do something wrong in the process and you can launch a spring into a body part and cause severe injury / death.