With high airfares and the price of gas at the highest rates in recent history, low-cost bus travel has become more popular with many Americans. However, recent bus accidents involving low-cost carriers such as Megabus have brought the safety of these bus lines to the forefront of many consumers’ minds. In response to this, Congress has passed a new law to make it easier for consumers to access safety information about bus lines. The law...

The news is full of reports of the dangers to children-everything from accidental poisonings to abductions. But children face dangers everyday that are much more commonplace, like the simple act of falling down stairs. A recent study found that, on average, one child age 4 or younger falls down the stairs somewhere in the U.S. every six minutes. Fully three-quarters of all the reported injuries were to the head and neck, which could be ve...

A new study published in the journal Anesthesiology looked at the litigation and patient injury rates for anesthesiologists 65 years old and older. The researchers found that older anesthesiologists experience a greater rate of medical malpractice litigation and a higher rate of severe patient injury than their younger counterparts. The study is the first to look at this issue. Anesthesiologists between the ages of 51 and 6...

2012 marks the 100 year anniversary of the Titanic disaster. Hundreds lost their lives when the British passenger liner was pulled to the icy depths of the North Atlantic. A string of recent cruise ship accidents make it abundantly clear that even a century of progress has failed to quell the risk of traveling by sea. Yet, could more be done to improve cruise ship safety? Human oversights, not unavoidable acts of God, are largely to blame for ...