accidents
Fidget spinners examined after children injured
Consumer protection in WA is launching an investigation into fidget spinners following reports of injuries They’re the latest craze amongst school kids and have been marketed as an aid for …
Labels don’t reduce medicine-related crashes: study
A study examining the effectiveness of colour-graded pictogram labels has concluded that they don’t work to reduce medicine-related traffic crashes. The study, published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, …
Narrow miss for pharmacy assistant
A Gold Coast pharmacy assistant narrowly escaped serious injury over the weekend when a man crashed his hatchback through the pharmacy’s front window. The man, aged in his 70s, may …
Pharmacist helps injured woman
When Toronto, NSW pharmacist Kylie Hindmarsh heard that a lady had fallen down outside the shop and split her head on the footpath, she rushed outside to help. On the …
Rest stops won’t cure driver fatigue: Sleep Health Foundation
Many Australians wrongly believe their tiredness behind the wheel can be completely cured with a rest stop, say specialists at the Sleep Health Foundation. “That’s a dangerous assumption and one …
Exploding e-cigarettes ‘act as flaming rockets’
Reports that e-cigarette users in the United States are being seriously injured due to the devices exploding in their faces are a wake-up call, Quit Victoria says. In the most …
More kids die from domestic violence than accidents: UQ research
Domestic violence leads to more child deaths and intensive care unit admissions in Queensland than accidents, and in infants they are most often head and brain injuries, according to new …
Falls the leading, and growing, cause of injury
More Australians are being hospitalised for injuries, with falls both the leading cause of injury hospitalisation and the type of injury that has increased the most in recent years, according …
Accident website prevents kids’ PTSD: study
Children who have suffered accidental injury are being helped by using a website that gives them information and coping skills, helping prevent PTSD, researchers have found. The researchers, led by …
New sleep guidelines: educate the vulnerable
Truckies and teen drivers need to be taught about the dangers of drowsiness to stop them nodding off at the wheel, important new sleep guidelines warn. A policy statement led …