In residential suburbia, it has become commonplace to see golf carts cruising down the streets. Many homeowners have invested in the alternative mode of transportation to conserve gasoline, save money by using less of it and be able to leave the family car at home when driving short distances. FLORIDIANS […]
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Camp Lejeune, situated in Jacksonville, NC, was established in 1942 as a Marine Corps Base training facility. Now, Camp Lejeune is listed on the Superfund program’s National Priority List. The United States Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry (ATSDR) declared that exposure to the drinking water at Camp Lejeune […]
Bath Safety Month takes place every January. The National Drowning Prevention Alliance’s annual outreach effort raises public awareness of the nearly 90 children who perish in the tub every year. Sadly, the primary reason for those deaths is lack of supervision. “Children can drown in only a few inches of […]
Christmas never will be the same for Texas woman Trista Hamsmith. One week before the most wonderful time of the year – Dec. 17, 2020 – Hamsmith’s 18-month-old daughter died a terrible death. Reese, a blond, rosy-cheeked baby, swallowed a button battery, which the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) […]
Holiday shopping has begun! Consumers strategically making their lists and hitting the malls a month ahead of time are hopeful to avoid an expected shortfall of gift options. “If you don’t order stuff ahead of time, you may not have it,” Yossi Sheffi, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center […]
Here are fast facts about fires caused by a home appliance almost every household has – clothes dryers. Nearly 3,000 blazes break out annually started by clothes dryers Due to those blazes, an approximate $35 million in property damages are reported each year along with 100 injuries and a handful […]
For 109 years in the State of Florida, juvenile offenders were sent to Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys if the Court found they committed a crime or violated terms of juvenile probation. The school was in Mariana, Florida. According to an investigation by the Tampa Bay Times, the children […]
The subject of six lawsuits filed in three states, paraquat is widely used in the agricultural industry and, sadly, often causes illnesses to those least able to care for themselves: workers. Workers on farms and ranches across the country are spraying the deadly weedkiller on their fields to prepare for […]
Fatality and injury data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) show that methods of functional safety design and testing among America’s automobiles is falling short of protecting the majority of the U.S. driving population: women. The facts and figures paint a perilous picture for female motorists who not […]
Johnson & Johnson (J&J) rarely responds to negative news, which it’s been experiencing a lot of lately, usually relying on the news cycles to wash away unfavorable reports. But in an unusual move, a J&J spokesman recently did defend the company from the latest blow – that the health care […]