Prevention and Control to publish an

entire issue of AJLM devoted to injury prevention. Injuries, as well as how to prevent them, are topics that every health care profes-sional needs to understand. This is par-ticularly important for all of us who are interested in the area of lifestyle medicine because aspects of lifestyle create hazards that we might not be aware of for unin-tentional injuries but also present enor-mous opportunities to reduce both the number and the impact of these injuries. By any measure, the toll of preventable injuries in the United States is stunning. Consider the following facts