Pesticides Contain Poisonous Chemicals While Air Fresheners Are Laced with Pollutants More than 33 million Americans are injured annually by common household products, resulting in a personal-safety nightmare that racks up $800 billion in related costs, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The leading culprit is magnets, which small […]
Author: Andrea Lewis
Beware of Benzodiazepines — Study Shows Prescription sleep aides now are linked to dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, a recent study shows. The study, published in the British Medical Journal, targets benzodiazepines, which doctors recommend to patients with anxiety, as well as insomnia. Long-term use of the little pills poses a 50-percent […]
Parents Should Instill Importance of Highway Safety in Their Children While the campaign against texting and driving accelerates – and rightly so – maybe a little more attention should be paid to talking on cell phones while driving, especially when the vehicle operators are teens. Distracted driving, defined by the […]
South Florida’s “Staying Alive on 95 & Florida’s Roadways” campaign officially has ushered in summer, a season that sees many motorists driving to their vacation destinations. The campaign, sponsored by the Dori Slosberg Foundation, involves law-enforcement saturations on Interstate 95 and other major thoroughfares across Palm Beach County, as well […]
