This is a controversial recommendation from the head of the child death review committee in New Zealand. I think it makes sense to test caregivers to see if they were intoxicated while looking after a child who has died in certain circumstances. What do you think? […]
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The challenge of injury prevention for children in sport
The September 2011 (Issue 45) of the BJSM is devoted to how sport can be used as a setting to ensure fitness and health for all children. Too often, discussion of this topic has ignored the vexed issue of injury risk in such activity, presumably because physical activity promoters do not want any possible adverse […]
Implementing & disseminating sports injury prevention
It seems that at every scientific forum I now attend, and every injury prevention policy meeting I am part of, there is a call for better understanding of how to get target end-users to adopt injury prevention measures and how to get practitioners to implement sustainable policies. And perhaps the loudest call has come from […]
A new word: Paraprosdokian
Ian Scott introduced me to a new word “paraprosdokian’ — “a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part.” Wikipedia adds: “It is frequently used for humorous or dramatic effect, […]
MacArthur ‘Genius’ grants include 3 injury researchers!
Kevin Guskiewicz, chairman of UNC’s Department of Exercise and Sports Medicine, will receive $500,000 over the next five years as one of the 22 new fellows named by the MacArthur Foundation of Chicago. The money will support his research into concussion injuries and sports. Another recipient is Matthew Nock, a clinical psychologist studying self-injury and suicide among adolescents and adults. […]
An update on registering clinical trials: does it help?
Ana Marusic is a devoted contributor to WAME (and co-editor of the Journal of Global Health). She recently posted a link to a paper in which she was a co-author that deals with the completeness and changes in registered data regarding RCTs. Although there are few RCTs in injury prevention (too few) the findings are […]
Amish jailed for refusal to display safey triangles on buggies
Steve Robrahn wrote on the Reuters website a report about 8 Amish men who were jailed after refusing to pay fines for failure to display orange-red safety triangles on their horse-drawn buggies. Their sentences ranged from 3-10 days. “The defendants contend that paying the fines would amount to complying with a law that violates their […]
Barry’s Blog #5
Cheap imports can be dangerous The safety of items ordered from cheap Asian online shops is being questioned. Although these products appear to be of good quality, many are dangerous and potentially lethal. This is especially true of electrical appliances. It is often difficult for a consumer to know if the appliance has been tested […]
Barry’s Blog #9
Authorship: How many is too many? Ana Marusic is a frequent contributor to WAME discussions and one topic that crops often crops up is authorship, and specifically, are there times when many authors are justified. After a systematic review, it appears the answer depends entirely on the discipline. In the Introduction to this report, Marusic […]
Barry’s Blog #8
NHL star hockey player wants ‘head shots’ banned After being sidelined by 2 successive concussions for much of last season and likely some or all of the upcoming hockey season, the NHL’s star player, Sidney Crosby, has proposed rule changes that would ban all head shots, intentional or not. He began by noting that only […]