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Your Health: Headphone Dangers

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Overview:

You may enjoy listening to music with your headphones or earbuds, but that musical escape could be putting you in danger! Injuries to pedestrians wearing headphones have more than tripled in the past six years, according to University of Maryland researchers. What's going on here? And, why are younger people particularly at risk? Watch this video to find out what every driver and pedestrian needs to know.

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