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Newswise – When is a medical emergency really an emergency? Not during key Boston Red Sox games, according to the Children’s Hospital in Boston. Using Nielsen ratings, they found that the bigger the game, the quieter the emergency room.

The researchers tracked hourly visit rates at six Boston-area emergency rooms during the each of the 2004 American League Championship Series and World Series games. They plotted these rates against television viewership as indicated by local Nielsen ratings. During the lowest-rated games, when the Sox were losing and facing probable elimination, visits to the emergency room were about 15% higher than expected.
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Newswise – Despite improvements in the baseball mitts used by professional baseball players, the gloves still do not adequately protect players’ hands from injury, according to a new study. Dr. Adam Ginn says, “We found signs of early blood vessel damage that could lead to significant symptoms and could end a player’s career. The gloves’ current design does not protect the hand from trauma.”
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It’s official: This is the worst hurricane season in recorded history. According to historian Eric Gross, “Hurricane Katrina [is] the most expensive natural disaster in our nation’s history, even when damages are converted to a constant-dollar figure to account for inflation over time.”
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Experts may be significantly underestimating air pollution’s role in causing early death, according to a team of researchers who studied twenty years of auto emissions data to learn the effect on Los Angeles residents. Also, the closer children live to a freeway, the greater their chance of being diagnosed with asthma. These children have higher levels of nitrogen dioxide, or NO2, in the air around their homes. NO2 is emitted from car and truck engines.
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