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| New National Study Examines Bicycle-Related Injuries Among Youth |
While bicycling is a healthy and environmentally friendly mode of transportation, the large number of bicycle-related injuries that continue to occur is cause for great concern.
The Center for Injury Research and Policy studied injuries between 1990 and 2005. While overall rates of injuries decreased over the study period, researchers found that in 2005 an average of 850 children were seen in emergency departments each day for bicycle-related injuries.
While injuries were seen on many parts of the body, children who sustained head injuries were almost six times more likely to die as a result of their injuries. This shows the need for increased helmet use among bicycle riders.
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| Grandparents a Safe Source of Childcare |
A new study released by by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and coauthored by Dr. Lara McKenzie, a primary investigator at the Center for Injury Research and Policy shows that grandparent care is not associated with more childhood injuries.
The study showed that having grandparents as caregivers can cut the risk of childhood injury roughly in half when compared to organized daycare or care by the mother or other relatives.
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| Study finds new gender differences in high school basketball injuries |
Many may perceive the knee as being a common basketball-related injury, but according to a recent study knee injuries accounted for 15 percent of injuries
This study also found that females were over two times more likely than males to experience concussions and 70 percent more likely to have a knee injury, while males were nearly 90 percent more likely to sustain a fracture and over 50 percent more likely to sustain a contusion.
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| Clinical Pediatrics Publishes CIRP Findings on Playground Equipment-Related Injuries |
While children’s activities on playgrounds can benefit their psychosocial and physical development as well as combat problems such as childhood obesity, these activities are not risk-free. CIRP found that more than 213,000 children under 18 years of age are treated each year in hospital emergency departments in the United States for playground-related injuries.
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| The Center for Injury Research & Policy proudly announces its new role as a CDC Injury Center |
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has selected the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital to become the agency's newest Injury Control Research Center (ICRC). It is the first CDC Injury Control Research Center to focus on pediatric injury research. With this designation, the Center for Injury Research and Policy becomes the 13th Injury Control Research Center funded by the CDC.
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