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Drug Poisoning Deaths Are Increasing
In 2004, and again in 2005 (the latest year with available data), poisoning was the second-leading cause of deaths arising from injury in the U.S., according to a recently published report from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) in the March Health E-Stats....

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Are Compact Fluorescent Bulbs Safe?
Compact fluorescent bulbs are the brightest idea in household lighting. However, if they break and are not disposed properly, they can pose a very small risk of mercury poisoning to young children, infants and pregnant women. Two studies, conducted by the state of Maine and the Mercury Policy Project in Vermont, found that when compact fluorescent ...

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Is That Phone Call For Real?
Police authorities have detected a telephone scam that could put at risk the personal information of victims who fall for it. Several residents in Chicago Heights, IL, and Lynchburg, VA, have been hit by the scam.In Chicago Heights, the modus operandi usually works this way: A call comes in, which appears on caller identification as if it is....

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Is Your Zoo’s Tiger Wall High Enough?
A 4-year-old, 300-pound Siberian tiger, called Tatiana, escaped from its habitat at around 5 p.m. on Christmas Day, Dec. 25, killing a 17-year-old teenager and injuring two brothers, ages 19 and 23. This is the first time that a tiger escaped from its cage and killed a zoo patron, according to officials. Usually, the victims of big cat incidents are...

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How, Where Shall U.S. Store Toxic Waste?
A number of this year’s presidential hopefuls have made public their opposition to the nuclear waste dumpsite at Yucca Mountain, deep in the deserts of Nevada. The dump is located 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Although the original plan was to open the facility in 1998, the dump has been dogged by lawsuits protesting its construction ...

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Do Power Plants Emit Too Much Mercury?
Mercury, a toxic heavy metal, continues to be a threat not only to the environment but also to public health. The threat comes mostly from eating mercury-contaminated fish, some of which are caught from the over 8,000 lakes and rivers across the country. In the U.S., mercury emissions come mostly from the nation’s 500 coal-fired ...

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Should Fire Policy Be Revised?
California has lost close to half a million acres of land to the still ongoing wildfires. The combined losses since the last major wildfires in 2003 now reach 1.5 million acres. To many fire-management experts, disasters like these will become bigger and deadlier until policies are changed. But getting them changed will be as difficult as …

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After Wildfire, Insurance Is Next Battle
Once the flames will have died down, thousands of homeowners in southern California will be facing an even more difficult ordeal, and they should prepare themselves for it: getting paid for their insurance claims. Consumer advocacy groups, like the Consumer Federation of America, warn that it is very possible for insurance firms to play ...

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Are Stun Guns Safe?
A large-scale, independent study on Taser stun guns concludes that the Tasers are safe to use in law enforcement. The study, conducted by Wake Forest University School of Medicine and funded by the US National Institute of Justice, finds that the injury rate associated with its use is low and the degree of injury appears to be minor. ...

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How to Prepare for a Landslide
Whether you are purchasing property or have already purchased one, make sure to get all information you can about the risks of landslide in your area. Here are some tips about preparing for a landslide. Contact the offices of your city/country/state geological survey or the department of geology at universities near you ...

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California Residents Shocked after Landslide
Residents of an upscale neighborhood in La Jolla were shocked Wednesday, Oct. 3, when a landslide destroyed at least two properties along Soledad Mountain Road and 111 homes were evacuated. Nine homes have been declared unsafe and off-limits, while another 27 yellow-tagged homes need some more evaluation but can be visited during ...

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Arctic Ice Melting Faster Than Expected
The Northwest Passage — a 5,150km (3,200m) sea route across the frozen Arctic and connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans — may soon open up to become a commercial sea lane, at least two decades earlier than expected by scientists studying global warming and its effects. That may be both good news and bad news. ...

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Quiz: Burns - What to do?
Would you know what to do if you or a loved one suffers a burn? What type of burn is the most serious? Should you immerse major large burns in cold water? If the victim has suffered an chemical burn, what do you do first? If it is an electrical burn, what do you do? How do you prevent a burn victim from going into shock? Should you apply ice directly to a burn? Should you break burn blisters? And more... Take this quiz to find out.

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States Move to Slash CO2 Emissions
A federal judge upheld a Vermont law, patterned after California’s law requiring a 30 percent cut in carbon-dioxide emissions on all vehicles sold in the state by 2016.The lawsuit had been filed by automakers against Vermont, which enacted a law setting emissions standards based on a 2002 California law. The judge ruled that ...

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Doubts Raised On Mobile Phone Safety
Scientists have found that radio signals from cell phones can activate cell division — a key to the development of tumors — at very low power. The chemical trigger for cell division, extracellular signal-regulated kinases or ERK1/2, was produced by cells as early as five minutes after exposure to the radio signals. ...

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Lead Fears Trigger More Toy Recalls
Fears of overexposure of children to lead paint on various toys have led to an expanded recall program issued by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). The four recall orders affect over 300,000 items, all of them made in China.The toys involved were 66,000 tops and 4,700 pails which were found to have lead ...

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Drunken Residents Set Off Dorm Fires
As college students prepare to go to school for the fall term, federal officials warned students to take measures to protect themselves from fires in student housing, both on- and off-campus. The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) chairman revealed that college housing units are more at risk of fires than ...

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NASA Safety Again at Issue
The foam debris problem continues to hound the space shuttle fleet. Four years and $235 million later, it appears the problem has not been solved. Another piece of foam dropped from the fuel tank bracket during launch of the shuttle Endeavour last week, bounced off a strut and slammed at 200 mph into its critical heat shield.

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Needed: Rapid Testing of Beach Water Quality
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) released Tuesday, August 7, its 17th beach water monitoring report covering water quality testing on 3,500 beaches for the whole of 2006. NRDC researchers counted 25,000 closing and health advisory days at 3,500 ocean, bay and Great Lakes beaches. This number is 28% higher than ...

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What’s Oil Doing In My Yard?
Residents of Burnaby, British Columbia, were just finishing lunch around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, when they looked up to see a geyser of oil shooting up 12 meters into the air. The “eruption” lasted for 25 minutes, coating everything around it with a layer of black lacquer. The cause? An excavator had ruptured an underground crude oil pipeline.

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Tattoo Safety
If you are thinking of adding a picture to your skin, you aren’t alone. Tattooing has been increasing in popularity and body art has become much more main stream. Choose carefully who adds the art to your body as danger lurks in the best known tattoo artist studios.

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