In mid-April 2013, two young Long Island siblings tragically lost their lives after drowning in a neighbor's backyard pool. As summer approaches and hot days spent playing in the water lie ahead, it is important to understand and follow New York's pool safety requirements to help protect against terrible drowning accidents. Pool accident strikes Long Island According to reports by News 12 Long Island and the New York Post, on the afternoon of April 14, 2013, a mother called the police to report that her two children, a 5-year-old son and a 7-year-old daughter, were ...

A Texas man found himself in a lot of trouble this month when it was discovered he was married to two women at the same time. According to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the 38-year-old man married his childhood sweetheart in 2004 and surprised her in 2009 by telling her over the phone that he wanted a divorce. He had her sign divorce documents that he had completed online and he moved out of the marital home located in Arlington. The man filed the divorce petition with the court on October 16, 2009, and less than three hours later married another woman who lived in Grapevine, ...

According to two studies recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, attempts to reduce long work hours among medical residents in order to improve patient safety may actually increase the risk of medical errors in teaching hospitals - which is contrary to what many may have expected. Given the several teaching hospitals here in Philadelphia-area, these studies may provide helpful guidance to hospital administrators attempting to reduce medical errors in their own facilities. Impact of resident shift length to medical errors Specifically, ...

Media reports of increasing auto accidents due to distracted driving behaviors like texting while driving are everywhere today. Although the problems with mobile use behind the wheel are accurate and alarming, a new study, however, shows that another driving behavior may be just as problematic--driver fatigue. The study on driver fatigue With help from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, a study was recently conducted by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute on driver fatigue and revealed that fatigued driving is among the leading causes of ...

With all the media attention focused on the dangers of distracted driving, one might expect that drivers have taken the message to heart and have decided to put away their cellphones while driving -- both for their own safety as well as others'. However, recent data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration shows that an alarmingly high number of drivers continue to use electronic devices behind the wheel, significantly increasing the risk of a dangerous distracted driving accident. Distracted driver statistics The NHTSA's National Occupant Protection ...

Texas attorneys Mo Aziz of Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Sorrels, Agosto & Friend located in Houston, Texas and Curtis Wayne Lucas of the Law Office of Whitney Fanning located in Waco, Texas are helping one victim of the recent West, Texas tragedy seek justice for permanent injuries caused by the fertilizer plant explosion. The Waco, Texas man and his girlfriend were visiting a friend in West when the industrial explosion rocked the small Texas town. The couple was at the apartment complex nearest to the fertilizer plant when the blast occurred. The man, who was standing ...

What causes medical mistakes and diagnostic errors? Studies indicated that excessively long shifts worked by medical residents could be to blame. In 2011, regulations went into place to restrict the number of continuous hours that first-year residents spent on call from 24 hours to 16 hours. The latest research published in JAMA Internal Medicine was surprising. It found that interns working under the new regulations were actually making more errors and still reported suffering from fatigue and depression. Before the new rules took effect, 19.9 percent of interns ...

In a recent win, the Law Offices of Palumbo & Renaud successfully defended a client charged with third-time drunk driving. Following an extensive trial, Judge Robbins of the Woodbridge Municipal Court found the defendant not guilty. If she had been convicted, she would have been sentenced to six months imprisonment and lost her license for ten years. Under New Jersey law, repeat drunk drivers face severe penalties. In addition to jail time and license suspensions, they may also be required to perform community service, attend drug and alcohol rehabilitation ...

This experience gives us a strategic advantage when preparing for your Social Security Disability hearing and it has also given us the wisdom and insight to know that you are single most important factor in winning your case at the hearing level. This is because the real way to win a Social Security Disability hearing is in the preparation for the Social Security hearing, even more so than what happens at the hearing itself. It is almost always a very long wait from the time we file for a hearing to the day we actually get to make our argument before a Social Security ...

Med-Fit Medical Weight Loss Clinic is taking part in Dress for Success' 3rd Annual Power Walk on April 27. The event, which takes place in Stapleton's central park, is fast becoming a fun family tradition for the Stapleton neighborhood. Dress for Success holds the 5K walk to promote health awareness and raise funds for its primary mission of helping disadvantaged women to succeed in their careers. Med-Fit is hosting a booth where they will be doing free body fat analysis, giving away free pedometers, sampling Optifast, and holding a drawing for a free iLipo treatment ...

In an industry where even the tiniest missteps have the potential to translate to multi-billion dollar harassment claim settlements, it's crucial that we pay attention to recent trends and stay up to date with evolving debt collection rules and regulations. It is with precisely this intention that National Association of Retail Collection Attorneys (NARCA) was formed in 1993. NARCA, which today is a nationwide trade association of over 700 law firms devoted to debt collection services and enforcement of creditor's rights, assists its members in learning about federal ...

Blue Shield of California has named Glendale Adventist Medical Center as a designated Blue Distinction Center+ for Spine Surgery and as a Blue Distinction Center for Knee & Hip Replacement. The Blue Distinction Centers for Specialty Care program is a national designation awarded by Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies to medical facilities that have demonstrated expertise in delivering quality special care - which expanded recently to include more robust quality measures focused on improved patient health and safety, as well as new cost efficiency measures. "We ...

Popular cycling cream is thicker, more durable for better skin protection on long rides. Doc's Skin Care for Athletes announced today that its best-selling Doc's All Natural Chamois Cream now works even better against chafing and infection. Doc's has created a new formula that is thicker, longer-lasting, and more heat-resistant, said Doc's founder Joshua Barton, M.D., the athlete-physician who created the cream. "Our chamois cream still has the same powerful grunge- and friction-fighting qualities. It still has a higher concentration of aromatic, anti-fungal ...

Squire Boone Caverns has just launched two new outdoor adventures for visitors to southern Indiana's Harrison County. A brand new high-flying zipline canopy tour takes visitors soaring above the caverns on six nonstop tree-to-tree ziplines and a swinging suspension bridge. Squire Boone Caverns Zipline Adventure is open daily April 1 through November 15, with various tours offered each day. Tours are $59 for visitors age seven and up, with discounts for groups of 10 or more. Reservations and complete information are available at www.squireboonecavernsziplines.com or (812) ...

The Agile PrepCast is released today and is aimed towards helping those who have the goal of obtaining their PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) certification. The certification is offered by The Project Management Institute (PMI). The Agile PrepCast at http://www.agileprepcast.com is a high-quality low-cost PMI-ACP Exam Prep Video Workshop that you download to your smart phone, tablet, laptop, or other media device to allow for easy access even when you are on the go. Developed by project management expert Cornelius Fichtner, PMP, CSM, The Agile PrepCast reduces ...

This is one of those books that I was initially quite confused about. Before I offer my own opinions, here's the summary of the book, courtesy of Amazon.com: Though they have the vote and the Pill and haven't been burned as witches since 1727, life isn't exactly a stroll down the catwalk for modern women. They are beset by uncertainties and questions: Why are they supposed to get Brazilians? Why do bras hurt? Why the incessant talk about babies? And do men secretly hate them? Caitlin Moran interweaves provocative observations on women's lives with laugh-out-loud funny ...

Millions of gardeners are planning their flower gardens this spring and part of their outdoor decor plan will most certainly include a hanging basket for their porch or free-standing hanging basket stands. In the past, the selection for lining their baskets would have been a coco liner. That selection of hanging basket liners has now been widened with the launch of the new EcoLiner. Many gardeners enjoy the look of their coco lined hanging baskets but discover throughout the season that coco liners do not retain water well and therefore their plants dry out easily. Coco ...

Dr. Helen Gelly of HyperbaRXs in Marietta, Georgia and Dr. David Schwegman from Hyperbaric Physicians of Georgia announced today they would join the Gridiron Greats Assistance Fund's (GGAF) medical program that provides millions of dollars in donated medical care and treatment to retired NFL players in dire need. Gridiron Greats is a non-profit 501(c)(3) charitable organization whose purpose is to provide financial aid and medical assistance to former NFL players and their families. GGAF's medical program is a humanitarian initiative and intended to provide a wide variety ...

Drinking coffee could decrease the risk of breast cancer recurring in patients taking the widely used drug Tamoxifen, a study at Lund University in Sweden has found. Patients who took the pill, along with two or more cups of coffee daily, reported less than half the rate of cancer recurrence, compared with their non-coffee drinking, Tamoxifen-taking counterparts. The team followed over 600 breast cancer patients from southern Sweden for an average of five years. Approximately 300 took Tamoxifen. The drug, a common hormone therapy after breast cancer surgery, reduces the ...

Early, substantive dialogue between parents and their grade-school age children about the ills of tobacco and alcohol use can be more powerful in shaping teen behavior than advertising, marketing or peer pressure, a University of Texas at Arlington marketing researcher has shown. The findings of Zhiyong Yang, an associate professor of marketing in the UT Arlington College of Business, are published in a recent edition of the Journal of Business Research. Similar findings were part of a 2010 study he published in the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing of the American ...

The European Union cannot meet its goals in agricultural policy without embracing genetically engineered crops (GMOs). That's the conclusion of scientists who write in Trends in Plant Science, a Cell Press publication, based on case studies showing that the EU is undermining its own competitiveness in the agricultural sector to its own detriment and that of its humanitarian activities in the developing world. "Failing such a change, ultimately the EU will become almost entirely dependent on the outside world for food and feed and scientific progress, ironically because ...

In many places around the world, people are living longer and are having fewer children. But that's not all. A study of people living in rural Gambia, published in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on April 25, shows that this modern-day "demographic transition" may lead women to be taller and slimmer, too. "This is a reminder that declines in mortality rates do not necessarily mean that evolution stops, but that it changes," says Ian Rickard of Durham University in the United Kingdom. Rickard and Alexandre Courtiol of the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife ...

Alzheimer's disease is the most common neurodegenerative disorder, affecting more than five million Americans, but currently there is no way to prevent, delay or stop its progression. A study published online April 25 by the Cell Press journal Neuron shows that a gene called CD33 contributes to Alzheimer's disease by inhibiting the ability of immune cells to remove toxic molecules in the brain. The findings provide new insights into the molecular causes of the disease and reveal a novel potential therapy that could prevent cognitive decline and brain damage at early stages. "Before ...

Most information about the cause of Alzheimer's disease is based on studies from animal models. Now, a study published by Cell Press on April 25th in the journal Cell examines the brain tissue of deceased human patients and sheds light on dysfunctions in molecular networks in the brain that are at the root of Alzheimer's disease. By showing that the TYROBP gene plays a key role in disrupting immune system pathways in the brains of Alzheimer's patients, the study reveals a potential therapeutic target for preventing brain damage caused by this debilitating disease. "Our ...

Cambridge, MA, April 25, 2013 --- Researchers at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) have discovered a hormone that holds promise for a dramatically more effective treatment of type 2 diabetes, a metabolic illness afflicting an estimated 26 million Americans. The researchers believe that the hormone might also have a role in treating type 1, or juvenile, diabetes. The work was published today by the journal Cell as an early on-line release. It is scheduled for the May 9 print edition of the journal. The hormone, called betatrophin, causes mice to produce insulin-secreting ...