Motor vehicle occupant protection: have we become too complacent?

Motor vehicle occupant protection: have we become too complacent?

Have dentin adhesives become too hydrophilic?

This review discusses current trends in the development of dentin adhesives and the possibility that some classes of currently available adhesives are too hydrophilic. Manufacturers have reformulated dentin adhesives to make them more compatible for bonding to intrinsically moist, acid-etched dentin by adding 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate and other hydrophilic resin monomers. These 3-step adhesiv...

Pediatric occupant-vehicle contact maps in rollover motor vehicle crashes.

OBJECTIVE Rollover crashes account for more than 33% of all motor vehicle-related fatalities and have the highest fatality risk of all crash types, at 1.37% in the United States. There is increased awareness of the high fatality rate associated with this crash type, but there is very limited pediatric-specific data related to rollover crashes in the United States. Recent focus on rollover mitig...

We have become an Open Access journal!

It has been 4 years since Journal of Diabetes Investigation (JDI) was launched as a bimonthly journal in 2010, as the official journal of the Asian Association for the Study of Diabetes (AASD). Two years after the launch, the first Impact Factor was released with the evaluation of 1.861. Contributions come from all over the world, and in 2012 almost 300 papers per year as original articles have...

Motor vehicle occupant injury prevention: the states' perspective.

A mong public health issues, the safety of motor vehicle occupants is probably the issue that touches closest to home. Motor vehicle travel is the primary means of transportation in the United States. Sadly, although a broad collaboration of vehicle safety advocates at the federal, state, and community levels have worked to improve the safety of vehicles and to protect vehicle occupants, motor ...