By the looks of swimming pool supplier Swim Clean Utah’s busy calendar, pool owners are rushing to comply with a new federal law requiring systems to prevent swimmers from becoming trapped, injured or killed by drains.
Pools that do not comply by Friday, when the law takes effect, risk being closed.
From 1999 to 2007, 18 people died from entrapment in drains and 56 people were injured, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. Read the rest of this entry »
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The Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Regional Training Division is starting a five-week, intense physical fitness program designed for future academy recruits or for members of the public interested in a fitness challenge and seeing the physical fitness design for law enforcement officers.
The Academy Challenge program, beginning Oct. 7, will run three days per week, in two-hour increments. Students will Read the rest of this entry »
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As a way to deal with the downturn, Rodale’s CEO Steve Murphy is prepping a new slew of consumer- and ad-supported spinoffs for 2009, building on its stable of health and fitness magazines, books, DVDs and events. Today’s tough times require a mix of media products that don’t depend on ad support, says the publisher of
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editor David Zinczenko include a restaurant version of the bestseller “Eat This, Not That!” In addition, Men’s Health Read the rest of this entry »
LOS ANGELES: Nancy Reagan, widow of the late US president Ronald Reagan, has been admitted to hospital with a broken pelvis.
She fell at her Bel-Air home in the middle of the night last week, but decided on Monday to get checked out at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Centre because of persistent pain, spokeswoman Joanne Drake said.
Doctors found Mrs Reagan, 87, had a fractured pelvis and sacrum, a triangle-shaped bone made up of five fused vertebrae. Read the rest of this entry »
Police find suspected drugs, $30K in Brown Street home
Jackson police searched a home on Brown Street north of W.
Michigan Avenue on Tuesday and found a small quantity of
cocaine and $30,000 in cash in a safe.
Using a search warrant, they entered the home in the 200
block of N. Brown Street about noon Tuesday after an
investigation led them to believe there were drugs in the
house, according to a city police news release issued
Wednesday.
There Read the rest of this entry »
FALLBROOK Graybill Medical Group is proud to announce the arrival of Peter Jenson, MD to its family practice office in Fallbrook.
Graybill Medical Groups Fallbrook offices include the specialties of family medicine and internal medicine as well as obstetrics and gynecology. They are welcoming patients to Dr. Jensons practice. Patients are free to call the office to ask for help in making the necessary arrangements with their health plan to Read the rest of this entry »
The California woman who gave birth to octuplets had tried having a baby for years without success, she told NBC News in a series of interviews that will be aired next week,
. She sank into a deep depression in 2000 after a back injury but became pregnant later that year through in vitro fertilization. “And then, I just kept going in,” she said.
President Obama is trying to change the focus of the contentious abortion debate, and it’s a risky Read the rest of this entry »
When she became pregnant, her grandmother offered to buy her a car if she would have an
. Other relatives told her the baby would not live to see its first birthday. She was 22, unmarried and had already been hospitalized several times for
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She gave birth to a boy, and when he was 1 week old, the young woman, who spoke on the condition that she not be named, brought him to a pediatric practice at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore Read the rest of this entry »
They’re touted as safer and sometimes even more effective than conventional hormone-replacement therapy.
But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warns that these claims are “unproven” and that the products are “potentially dangerous.” What’s more, bio-identical hormone replacement therapy — or “BHRT” — is a “marketing term not recognized by FDA,” the agency said.
Experts also are expressing some concerns about the products.
“We don’t know Read the rest of this entry »