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Australia: the world's fattest nation

Read what this to has to do with cycle helmets.

Changes in cycle use in Australia

A comprehensive look at how cycle use has changed since the helmet laws.

Science or non-science?

BHRF looks at a one-sided review of helmets for the BMA's Board of Science that relies heavily on the use of discredited and anecdotal evidence.

City Bikes and helmets

How helmet laws could de-rail the City Bike revolution

TRL confirms helmets may increase severity of injuries

Our review analyses the findings and takes a wider look at rotational injuries.

Safety in numbers
High life expectancy confirms low risk in cycling

Two sets of evidence that cycling is a low-risk activity which gets safer when more people cycle

No evidence of benefit from helmet laws

The influential Cochrane Review finds it cannot show that helmet laws lead to a lower risk of head injury.

Risk compensation: myth or reality?

The authors are not convinced about risk compensation - we look at their analysis.

3 papers in Injury Prevention

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4 UK reports find little benefit from helmets

The results of independent research from diverse sources

The science of cycle helmets

How they work and their limitations

Conflicting evidence - not only in cycle helmet research

A look at other medical research that has proved unreliable

A critical examination of arguments in favour of bicycle helmet legislation

How poor methods and analyses result in misrepresentation of the Canadian experience

The health benefits of cycling

Why the benefits of cycling greatly outweigh the risks

Head Injuries and Helmet Laws in Australia and New Zealand

A comprehensive assessment of the first helmet laws

Helmet laws: What has been their effect?

How individual laws have affected cycle use and casualties

Cochrane Review

Our commentary on one of the principal pro-helmet documents

Assessing the actual risks faced by cyclists

Putting the risks when cycling into perspective


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