American Humane Association Statement re: AHA Film and Television Unit.
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Humane Association (AHA) in the last four years alone has monitored the humane care and treatment of tens of thousands of animals that have appeared in almost 3,000 films, television shows, and commercials under AHA's jurisdiction. In that time...

Keeping kids safe from injuries.
Unintentional injuries--primarily involving automobile accidents and drowning--remain leading causes of death in children older than 1 year. We as physicians play a key role in educating parents about ways to reduce the risk of unintentional injuries, whether we are repairing a laceration in the emergency department, examining a premature...

Outdoor education fatalities in Australia 1960-2002. Part 1: summary of incidents and introduction to fatality analysis.
Abstract This paper presents a summary of outdoor education fatalities in Australia between 1960 and 2002. It discusses the importance of incident analysis in fatality prevention. Major sources of systematic bias in reviewing cases are discussed, and a distinction made between risk management, safety management, and fatality...

Outdoor education fatalities in Australia 1960-2002. Part 2. Contributing circumstances: supervision, first aid, and rescue.
Abstract This paper, the second in a series, presents a partial analysis of outdoor education fatalities in Australia. It examines outdoor education related fatalities in Australia in the period 1960-2002 with a view to understanding how fatality prevention measures can be improved. The fatal incidents are reviewed...

The deception of risk perception.
Human beings are not good risk managers. The brain is not wired to correctly assess what is going to actually kill us and what will simply worry us to death. We spend an inordinate amount of time worrying about the things that will never happen while paying little or...

2 OFWs in Lebanon fall to their death.
Byline: CHARISSA M. LUCI Damage to life has started for Filipino overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) trapped in war-torn Lebanon. Two Filipino domestic helpers fell to their death in Lebanon after they tried to escape from their respective employers, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) yesterday...

'Psychological autopsy' can help explain death: a 16-item checklist can be used to help determine if a patient's death was accidental or self-inflicted.
MONTREAL -- A psychological autopsy can be helpful in determining the causes of a patient's death, Dr. Elena Swartz said at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. The idea of a psychological autopsy began at the Los Angeles County coroner's office,...

The next 3,000.
Byline: The Register-Guard Dealing with death on a large scale unavoidably reduces human beings to statistics and obscures the heartbreak each lost life brings to a wide circle of family members and friends. That's why it's so important for the news media to show the faces of...

A motor vehicle safety scale for young drivers.
Abstract: This study seeks to develop a brief instrument with validity and reliability to measure college students' attitudes and behavior with regard to motor vehicle safety. The scale was administered to a sample of 158 undergraduate students. Item analysis showed high discriminative power of items and adequate internal consistency...

Outdoor education fatalities in Australia 1960-2002: part 3: environmental circumstances.
Abstract This article, the third in a series, examines 114 outdoor education-related fatalities in Australia in the period 1960-2002. It reviews the environmental circumstances in which fatalities have occurred and the extent to which environmental circumstances contributed to fatal incidents. All of the accidental deaths (105) could...