One year after relaxing its motorcycle helmet law, Michigan has seen a 22 percent rise in medical insurance claim costs associated with cycle crashes. The data is clear: When helmets are off, injuries and death increase. The average ...
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With nightmarish superbugs threatening the lives of patients and healthcare workers, hospitals are taking considerable precautions to track who is and who isn't washing their hands. For example, Summerville Medical Center, a 94-bed ...
Tags: Sensor Tag, Camera, Hand Washing
Pool season has arrived. Suspicion will soon mount about that child who managed to swim for four hours straight. When grandpa jumps in the pool straight after his five hour drive to see you with no bathroom break in between, eyeballs will ...
Tags: Pool, Construction&Decoration
Voxiva, Inc.(SM) announced today that text4baby(SM), a service which provides pregnant women and new moms with critical health information, has introduced a wide range of new interactive features and evidence-based educational content. ...
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A new strain of bird flu, which first originated in China and sickened more than 100, has spread to Taiwan, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). A 53-year-old Taiwanese businessman who returned from China's coastal Jiangsu ...
H7N9 is a serotype of the species Influenzavirus A (avian influenza virus or bird flu virus). H7 normally circulates amongst avian populations with some variants known to occasionally infect humans. An H7N9 virus was first reported to have ...
US-based Rich Products is expanding its voluntary recall of frozen snack foods produced at its Waycross, Georgia facility as they may be contaminated with E. coli O121 bacteria. On 28 March, the New York-based firm issued a voluntary ...
In booth 2405 at the Optical Fiber Communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC 2013) in Anaheim (19-21 March), fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA is ...
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Americans are bigger than ever before, and getting even bigger. The CDC predicts that 44 percent of Americans will be obese by 2030. And while we can debate the health implications of this statistic and ponder what we need to do to be as ...
Cadac has announced it has appointed LIFT Distribution in the US to distribute its full production console range into the professional audio retail, installer and sound-hire channels. Seattle based LIFT Distribution joins with Broadway ...
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The number of potentially deadly infections picked up by patients in hospitals is down slightly, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But your risk still depends on which hospital you go to, since ...
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Feeling panicky about the flu season? You’re not alone. Reports that this is the worst flu season in a decade have a lot of folks nervously clutching their hand sanitizer and considering just how weird they’d look wearing a ...
Tags: Germ-Free, office disign, office furnishing
With cold and flu season peaking, the recall Thursday of 24 varieties of Triaminic and Theraflu Warming Relief syrups due to faulty child-resistant safety caps serves as a reminder to parents that cough and cold medications can be dangerous ...
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University are using Twitter to track what has been a particularly severe flu season across the U.S. As people take to Twitter to complain about being sick with the flu and its dreaded symptoms, researchers ...
Tags: Twitter, flu season, US
The Infiniti FX SUV is by all accounts a unique car. That’s not ‘unique’ because it’s a rare SUV that doesn’t sell in decent numbers – therefore ensuring exclusivity – but also because few SUV ...