Although it may be hard to believe given the weather on any given day recently, summer is right around the corner. Given that, matters of summer heat should be on your mind. Children and the elderly are very susceptible to the dangers of the extreme heat that summers can bring. According to the Centers for Disease Control, an average of 300 people a year die from heat related illnesses.

Many people live an entire lifetime without ever knowing their gifts. There are many ways to define ‘gifts,’ but here are a few possible definitions: a specialty profession requiring a high level of knowledge or skill; a character or physical trait; the ability to run a busy home full of healthy children who do well in school; a physical or mental ability; a high IQ; or maybe the ability to lead, motivate and inspire others. If you boil it down to simple logic, every human being is unique in genetic structure, so everyone has an equal chance to develop their gifts. Do you know what your gifts are?

The bell has rung, and school is out. Before you turn your children loose to enjoy outdoor activities and participate in area summer camps, be sure to follow these safety recommendations for safe and enjoyable summer fun. Every parent should be mindful of sun safety, especially those with kids attending summer camp or participating in other outdoor activities. Before you pry your kids away from their XBOX or Playstation and pack their bags, you should confirm with the camp staff that that they have measures and policies in place to prevent over exposure to the sun resulting in sunburn.

What if there was a way to feel intoxicated and wide-awake at the same time? What if a drinker could party until dawn without feeling the fatigue brought on by alcohol consumption? Would this be enticing for young drinkers? Would this help perpetuate the belief that they are ten feet tall and bulletproof? That is the expectation many drinkers have from mixing alcohol with the 250 or more energy drink brands currently sold and consumed in the United States.

This summer, my oldest child will take driver’s education. As a parent, it’s a little scary. I saw an interesting statistic recently that really opened my eyes to what I’m getting myself into. Evidently, your average sixteen year-old soccer player has 1,500 hours of instruction in soccer by the time they reach that age. But, we’re handing these same kids drivers licenses and unleashing them on the road with only fifty to a hundred hours of driving instruction.

Each year, over 3 billion prescriptions are dispensed in the United States. Patients depend on these medications for their well-being, and it is important that the dispensing pharmacy accurately fills each prescription with the correct drug and dosage. However, pharmacists and pharmacy technicians are under enormous pressure to keep costs low by filling high volumes of prescriptions quickly.

New York City is one of the most popular vacation destinations in the world. Forty-seven million visitors, including 37.5 million Americans and 9.5 million international visitors, made New York City their destination in 2008. Throughout the year, visitors enjoy New York City attractions such as theater performances on Broadway, concerts, sports and events at Madison Square Garden, and musical artists and comedians at Radio City Music Hall, home of the famous Radio City Rockettes.

I still remember lying in the hospital bed thinking to myself, “My military career is over. Now what am I going to do?” On September 26th 2003, while en route to four days of rest and recuperation (“R&R”), my Hummer was ambushed by a roadside bomb outside of Tikrit, Iraq. As a result of the attack, I lost my left eye, ruptured both ear drums, suffered a minor traumatic brain injury and nerve damage to my left arm and hand. That’s the thing with war – there’s no time out when you are injured.

It has certainly been a long winter; you probably thought it would never end.  Spring has sprung, and now summertime is around the corner.  Summer, of course, means outdoor fun.  Swimming and playing in the …

Summer vacation is something most people look forward to every year. The kids are out of school, the weather is great, and we want to get to our vacation destinations as quickly as possible so the fun and relaxation can begin. Unless the destination is within easy driving distance, we will fly there.

Lifeguards are given tremendous responsibility at swimming pools throughout the country. In addition to maintaining and cleaning the pool, a lifeguard on duty must be ever vigilant to watch swimmers and divers so as to prevent drowning and other aquatic injuries.

Parents and infant caregivers need to be cautious when using infant slings for babies younger than four months of age.  Infant slings can pose two different types of suffocation hazards to babies.  These hazards are …

It is expectation and belief that encourage us to trust the police. We trust the promise that law enforcement personnel and their departments are set up to protect us. We rely on them to catch criminals, prevent crime, keep the peace, maintain order, serve the public, and, in general, keep the citizenry safe.

In March the Department of Transportation revealed that it might recommend that every newly manufactured vehicle sold in the U.S. be equipped with brakes that can override the gas pedal. This was on the heels of Toyota officials’ third congressional hearing on lethal safety defects for Toyota.

Statistics point to a clear safety concern for people who operate kit-built airplanes. These types of planes accounted for eighteen percent of non-commercial plane crashes in 2008, even though they logged less than five percent of flight time, according to the Associated Press. The accident rate for a kit plane, including amateur-built helicopters, is more than seven times higher than other noncommercial aircrafts.

Since childhood we’ve been taught that when we get sick it is important to take our medicine. Advances in medicine and science have provided us almost unlimited options when it comes to selecting medications. A simple trip to the local drug store offers solutions to treat the common cold, hay-fever, indigestion, joint pain, headaches, you name it. Throw in pills that are used to help us lose weight or build muscle that are available at nutritional supplement stores and there is no end to the pills and powders we could put in our body every day.

Make no mistake about it; a qualified and adequate nursing staff is required by any facility to ensure safe and appropriate patient care. Unfortunately, hospitals in America are facing a historic nurse shortage that is projected to worsen as baby boomers continue to age and require increasing medical care. Even worse, hospitals are not doing anything about this dearth of nurses and the repercussions are being seen by you, the patient.

It is vitally important for you to buy proper insurance coverage to cover you and your loved ones. Most people are concerned with purchasing coverage to protect others. That coverage is known as liability coverage and that covers situations where you cause someone else’s injury. That is important coverage, and it should be at the highest limits that you can afford to protect your own personal assets.

When Merck first starting airing all of the “One Less” commercials, Gardasil was being advertised as a cervical cancer vaccine. In fact, those were the exact words a nurse used to get my daughter to take the vaccine. She told her, “You are going off to college soon, don’t you want to be protected against cervical cancer?” We then inquired about side effects and were given the “official” information sheet, and the side effects listed were: bruising, redness and or swelling at injection site, and the possibility of a low grade fever.

With the national unemployment rate at around 10%, many Americans are getting behind in their bills. While most of us try to protect our credit, sometimes even good people get late in paying bills. Sadly, many debt collectors resort to unfair and downright mean tactics to extort payment even for small or newly outstanding debts.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s March 31, 2010 news release states that motorcycles with anti-lock brakes are 37% less likely to be involved in fatal collisions than those without (per 10,000 registered vehicle years). Furthermore, motorcycles with anti-lock brakes file 22% fewer damage claims per insured vehicle year* than the same models without anti-lock brakes.