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Core Concepts in Health Brief, 9/e

Paul M. Insel, Stanford University, School of Medicine
Walton T. Roth, Stanford University, School of Medicine

Personal Safety: Protecting Yourself from Unintentional Injuries and Violence

In The News

Cellular Phones and Distracted Driving
(See the In the News box on p. 371 in your text.)

For more information on the use of cellular phones while driving, visit the following Web sites:

http://www.nsc.org/library/facts/carphone.htm National Safety Council: Fact Sheet on Car Phones

http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/research/wireless National Highway Traffic Safety Administration report: An Investigation of the Safety Implications of Wireless Communications in Vehicles

http://www.nysgtsc.state.ny.us/phon-ndx.htm New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, Governor's Traffic Safety Committee: Car Cell Phones on the Road

http://www.wow-com.com/consumer/index.cfm The World of Wireless Communication: Consumer Resources

For recent studies on the links between cellular phone use and safety, try searching http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez PubMed; for information on recently enacted laws, try a general Web search.

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