Americans made about 1.1 billion visits to physician offices and hospital outpatient and emergency departments in 2006, which works out to an average of four visits per person per year, according to statistics released Wednesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The number of visits to physician offices and hospital outpatient and emergency [...]

Text messaging may not seem an obvious safety concern. But the American College of Emergency Physicians warns that being distracted by text messaging at inappropriate times — such as when crossing streets — can result in serious injury or death.
Teens and young adults, in particular, “are arriving in emergency departments with serious and sometimes fatal [...]