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This section offers world news briefs related to medicine as of October 2015. A coroner in Queensland has recommended that children should be prohibited from riding adult-sized quad bikes in Australia. The Seattle city council in Washington is considering charging the gun industry for gun victims' medical care. The Quebec government's tentative moves to make bike helmets mandatory was mocked by journalist Fabien Deglise in Canada.

The article presents news briefs related to injury prevention. According to a study by researchers in Toronto, Ontario, incidence of concussions is higher among female players than male players in soccer. An online paper, published in the periodical "Lancet," says that top three causes of death of young Americans in 2010 included unintentional injury, suicide and homicide. A study by the Violence Prevention Center says that gun violence prevention laws are related to gun death rates in the U.S.

This section offers news briefs related to injury prevention as of December 2013. Efforts are being taken in Scotland to protect children from ingestion of washing detergent Liquitab which looks like candies. Quebec's efforts to obtain the province's gun registry data is being supported by the Coalition for Gun Control in Canada. Brazil has released a graphic mass media campaign against drinking and driving as part of the Bloomberg Philanthropies Global Road Safety Programme.

The author comments on a study "A consideration of severity is sufficient to focus our prevention efforts," by Langley and Cryer which asserts that it is unrealistic and counterproductive to try and prevent all childhood injury. He argues that it is impossible to predict consequences of most of the injuries. He opines that the author's whole argument is based on the assumption that the outcome of an injury event can be accurately predicted in all instances.