The lead Study finds high rates of spanking of very young children in NC
The Chapel Hill News
Lead author Adam Zolotor, an assistant professor at UNC and member of the UNC Injury Prevention Research Center, said he and his colleagues
were surprised at what they called the "staggeringly high rate" of corporal punishment in the home.
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Prevention and Control of Injury and Violence
North Carolina Medical Journal
12/2010 North Carolina Medical Journal focuses on prevention and control of injury and violence. UNC IPRC Center Director Carol Runyan, co-editor.
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The Big Idea: Brain Trauma
National Geographic
The work of IPRC Core Faculty member Kevin Guskiewicz featured by National Geographic.
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NFL turns to UNC for concussion research
Newsobserver.com
Kevin Guskiewicz has proof, $200,000 worth of it, that the NFL and NFL Players Association can agree to something.
Guskiewicz, the research director of the Center for the Study of Retired Athletes at the University of North Carolina, has received matching $100,000 grants from the NFL and NFLPA for concussion research.
"Both sides agree, our research is important," said Guskiewicz, a Kenan Distinguished Professor at UNC.
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NFL awards $100,000 grant to UNC for concussion research
Office of the vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development 2010 Annual Report
Safer Football, Taught From Inside the Helmet
The New York Times
Researchers are using new tools to find and alert players who deliver too many blows with the top of their heads.
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For N.F.L. Players, Another Risk: Heart Disease
The New York Times
IPRC Core Faculty member Kevin Guskiewicz discusses health risks among retired NFL players.
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Concussion Management for all ages
IPRC Core Faculty Kevin Guskiewicz notes both the importance, and shortage in school sports, of certified athletic trainers in concussion management for all ages.
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Concussions In Sports: Athletes' Head Injuries Should Be Reviewed, Experts Say
MD group wants review on concussions
Neurology group wants athletic trainers on concussion watch for kids' games _ and at practice
Concussion repercussions in the NFL
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Kevin Guskiewicz, IPRC Core Faculty Member and Director of the Center for the Study of Retired Athletes at the University of North Carolina, discusses concussion repercussions in the NFL
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Youth violence prevention center to be located in Robeson County
UNC to lead youth violence prevention center
The Triangle Business Journal
The federal government has granted $6.5 million to establish the nation's first rurally focused youth violence prevention center in Robeson County, which is in southeastern North Carolina off of Interstate 95 on the South Carolina border. Researchers from UNC-Chapel Hill will head up the project.
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Mayo Clinic out to check sports concussions
The Star Tribune (Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn.)
... Kevin Guskiewicz of the University of North Carolina and IPRC core faculty member, said that 50 percent of concussions in high school football players may go unreported, and 75 percent of athletes do not know the signs and symptoms. Many athletes fear they will be stigmatized or demoted if they admit to being hurt, so they lie about their condition.
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Pre-doctoral fellowship for youth violence prevention funded by NC-ACE
NC-ACE: NC Academic Center for Excellence in Youth Violence Prevention launches
Doubts Rise Over Child Protective Service Inquiries
NICHOLAS BAKALAR
New study utilizing LONGSCAN data points to need for additional resources and effort for at-risk and maltreated children.
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Releasing Disputed Data on Helmets Puts Heat on N.F.L.
New York Times
IPRC Core Faculty Keven Guskiewicz points out that a new report rating the safest football helmets does not apply to youth helmet safety.
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Retail Crime Prevention Tips
Pantagraph.com
IPRC core faculty member Carri Casteel offers cime preveniton tips for small and retail businesses at Bloomington, Illinois' Pantagraph.com
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Offensive Play: How different are dog fighting and football?
The New Yorker
Kevin Guskiewicz, who runs the university's Sports Concussion Research Program...and his colleagues have come up with what they believe is a much better method of understanding concussion. They have done a full cognitive workup of the players on the U.N.C. team, so that they can track whatever effect might arise from the hits each player accumulates during his four years.
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Ex-NFL players report higher rates of dementia
The Associated Press
Retired professional football players may have a higher rate than normal of Alzheimer's disease or other memory problems, suggests a preliminary study that provides more fuel for concerns about long-term risk of concussions. ...Another study of retired professional football players, published in 2005, found that a history of three or more concussions was associated with a boost in risk of mild cognitive impairment after age 50. Kevin Guskiewicz, lead author of that study and director of the Center for the Study of Retired Athletes at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, said the findings of the new study didn't surprise him.
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Concussions get more attention
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
...Concussions are an unseen epidemic, according to Dr. Kevin Guskiewicz, chairman of the Department of Exercise and Sport Science at the University of North Carolina. The American Association of Neurological Surgeons said 10 percent to 15 percent of high school athletes sustain a concussion each year. ...UNC is establishing a new Concussion Clinical Research Institute in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science.
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Helmet tech aimed at concussions
ESPN.com
...Reduction, not elimination, is the key word when it comes to concussions. "I think [technique is] going to solve half the problem," said Kevin Guskiewicz, an athletic trainer and researcher at the University of North Carolina Injury Prevention Research Center, and chair of UNC's Department of Exercise and Sport Science.
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New specialty spurs hopes for helping abused kids
The Associated Press
It appeared to be a clear-cut case of child abuse: An infant hospitalized with bleeding in his brain, his father behind bars suspected of shaking the baby. Only after the boy died without his father at his bedside did doctors realize the bleeding was brought on by a vitamin K deficiency ¡ª not abuse. ...Desmond Runyan, professor of social medicine and pediatrics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said the lack of training makes some doctors reluctant to handle child abuse cases.
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UNC injury research center receives $4.8 million award from CDC
Child-labor bill heads to Perdue By BENJAMIN NIOLET AND JIM WALSER
The penalties for child labor law violations will double under a bill that received final approval Wednesday from the legislature.
Advocates say the new law will make North Carolina, which has some of the nation's weakest child-labor protections, safer for young workers.
"Workplace safety is important for everybody, but it's especially important for young workers who have less clout to make sure it's safe," said Carol Runyan, who leads UNC-Chapel Hill's Injury Prevention Research Center. "This sends a message that the state is serious about protecting young workers."
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UNC study shows link between spanking and physical abuse
Texas Mutual Launches Safety Program for Teen Workers
His healing ways and voice calm young patients
UNC study links spankers to abusers
Heavy Spanking Predicts Overt Child Abuse
Spanking Linked To Harsher Punishments
Abusive Head Trauma in infants, or Shaken Baby Syndrome, is a leading cause of infant mortality in the U.S.
This year, in partnership with other Dr. Desmond Runyan and colleagues are fielding a study of the effectiveness of educating new parents about shaking and how to respond to infant crying. Over 5 years, this effort is intended to reach the parents of over 600,000 new babies.
Information about progress with this project appeared in USA Today: New programs target shaken-baby syndrome.
Upon announcement of the study, there was tremendous press coverage. Here are some links to a few:
Fayetteville Observer
Herald Sun
News and Observer 1
News and Observer 2
NBC-17
Citizen Times
Community-based Intervention to Prevent Falls among Older Adults
Falls are the leading cause of both fatal and nonfatal injuries among older adults in the U.S.
The objective of this study
is to evaluate the effectiveness of a community-based falls prevention program delivered by community pharmacists
using a randomized controlled clinical trial (Dr. Susan J. Blalock, principal investigator).
The first paper from this study was just released and the recommendations have received quite a bit of press coverage.
Study: Seniors Who Take Medications Risk Falling
A List of Drugs That Increase Falling Risk
Drugs that contribute to falls
Which Drugs Do - And Don't - Increase Fall Risks for the Elderly
Dr. Kimberly Rauscher has had an article reviewed by Reuters Health.
Many teens may experience workplace violence
UNC to train professionals in child abuse prevention
Nearly 2 million children are mistreated annually in the U.S., but most medical, public health and social welfare professionals have little or no training in how to examine of the reasons for abuse and e mploy proven public health strategies to prevent child maltreatment before it starts , according to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers. In response, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has awarded a two-year, $666,670 grant to UNC’s Injury Prevention Research Center to provide the much needed training.
Press Release
Football Head Impacts and Injuries
Its difficult to determine when an individual athlete may return to play following injury. To help with this determination, a study by Dr. Kevin Guskiewicz and colleagues seeks to measure the effects of head impacts in sports. To date, in excess of data on 140,000 head impacts have been collected, registering total of 14 cases of concussion. The initial three years of the study resulted in three companion papers that were published in the December 2007 issue of Neurosurgery, and the project was featured in a nationwide NBC news story and on MSNBC.com. Some of the news articles about the study can be accessed by the links below:
New York Times: Hazards: Football Head Injuries, Not So Cut and Dried
Discovery Channel: As Heads Collide, Helmet Measures Impacts
Now Toronto: High hopes for wired helmet
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