motor vehicle crashes Archives

Study finds airbags reduce risk of kidney injury in car crashes

CHICAGO (October 21, 2010) — Occupants in motor vehicles with airbags are much less likely to suffer kidney or renal damage in a crash than are occupants in vehicles without airbags, according to a new study in the September Journal of the America…

Low-income neighborhoods experience far more injuries than high-income areas

CHICAGO (September 7, 2010) — Penetrating injury rates were more than 20 times higher for persons living in the lowest income neighborhoods compared with those living in the highest income neighborhoods, according to a new study published in the A…