How Safe are Cyclists on European Roads?

How safe are the world's roads?

a Department of Violence and Injury Prevention and Disability, World Health Organization, 20 avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. Correspondence to Tami Toroyan (e-mail: [email protected]). Road traffic injuries are a leading public health problem, resulting in over 1.2 million deaths each year.1 They affect all age groups but their impact is most striking among the young: they are the lea...

Injuries to pedal cyclists on New Zealand roads, 1988-2007

BACKGROUND The risk of injury is one of the major barriers to engaging in cycling. We investigated exposure-based rates and profiles of traffic injuries sustained by pedal cyclists that resulted in death or hospital inpatient treatment in New Zealand, one of the most car dependent countries. METHODS Pedal cyclist traffic injuries were identified from the Mortality Collection and the National ...

Are we really in safe hands? How safe is safe?

How safe are intraocular lenses?

How safe are metal-on-metal hip implants?

Hundreds of thousands of patients around the world may have been exposed to toxic substances after being implanted with poorly regulated and potentially dangerous hip devices, a BMJ/ BBC Newsnight investigation reveals this week. Despite the fact that these risks have been known and well documented for decades, patients have been kept in the dark about their participation in what has effectivel...