OBJECTIVE To examine the public health messages conveyed by newspaper coverage of fatal motor vehicle crashes and determine the extent to which press coverage accurately reflects real risks and crash trends. METHODS Crash details were extracted from two years of newspaper coverage of fatal crashes in four Midwestern cities in the United States. Details and causal factors identified by reporte...

Alcohol involvement is a major contributing factor in the occurrence of motor vehicle traffic crashes. According to NHTSA’s preliminary estimate for 2002, alcohol was involved in about 42 percent of all motor vehicle crashes where there was a fatality. The most direct measure of a driver’s or nonoccupant’s alcohol involvement is a BAC test result reported in NHTSA’s Fatality Analysis Reporting ...

Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (ARSs) and ARS-interacting multifunctional proteins (AIMPs) exhibit remarkable functional versatility beyond their catalytic activities in protein synthesis. Their non-canonical functions have been pathologically linked to cancers. Here we described our integrative genome-wide analysis of ARSs to show cancer-associated activities in glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the ...