News tagged with 'Cell'

Looking at collision data in three states and the District of Columbia after hand-held phone bans were put into place, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety finds no difference in the crash rate. The results are perplexing in that other studies have shown distracted driving presents a four-fold increase in the risk of collision and injuries.

Expect new models of autos to increasinigly allow drivers and passengers to connect to the Internet for commerce and pleasure, but at what cost to safety?

A Danish study finds that there is no increase in brain tumors during a time when mobile phone use escalated. But the author cautions that tumors may take a longer time to develop. Meanwhile consumers can take certain precautions, just in case.

Yaz and Yasmin oral contraceptives are generating so many lawsuits that the state of New Jersey is considering consolidating them into a class action.

Distracted drivers can include airline pilots and now those at the helm of NWA Flight 188 have lost their pilots' license after missing the airport by 150 miles.

In a landmark long-term study, the World Health Organization (WHO) is about to announce that long-term cell phone use is linked to a higher risk of developing brain cancer.

The Distracted Driving Summit has resulted in President Obama signing an executive order that bans 4.5 million federal employees and the military from texting and driving. Truckers are not included at this time.

Major automakers expressed support Wednesday for banning drivers from text messaging and using hand-held mobile phones while operating a vehicle.

Each millimeter of bone loss from chronic periodontitis was linked to a fourfold risk of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, especially in the mouth and throat, according to this study on mouth health and cancer.

Head and neck cancer patients who test positive for the human papillomavirus (HPV) have a better survival rate than patients that don’t have the virus, according to new research published in the journal Cancer Prevention Research.

Legislation introduced Wednesday would withhold federal highway funds from states that do not ban texting while driving, known to be more distracting than driving under the influence. States would lose 25 percent of the federal highway funds, until the funds were depleted, if they failed to enact the ban.  

The National Institutes of Health stopped a drug trial when it was found that the drug, marketed as Viagra, and known as sildenafil, caused serious medical problems in sickle cell patients suffering from pulmonary hypertension.  

Researchers from Boston found they could regenerate damaged heart muscle with a growth factor known as neuregulin 1, which appears to spark the process of cell division. The implications are huge for humans who have suffered a heart attack. 

When Boston trolley operator Aiden Quinn ran into a trolley ahead of him last May, he admitted he was texting his girlfriend.  Today the 24-year-old was arraigned and could spend three years in prison for gross negligence operating a train.

A prescription skin cream used to treat actinic keratoses, pre-cancerous lesions caused by sun damage, may also reverse signs of aging leaving behind younger-looking skin, according to a new study.