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Published: January 28, 2009
TAMPA – More than 1,000 Tampa Bay area elementary school children got a lesson Wednesday in the importance of exercise from about a dozen current and retired
players and Florida Gov. Charlie Crist.
The youngsters, who spent the day on the NFL Experience grounds outside Raymond James Stadium, had entered an NFL Play 60 program to learn fitness principles. The event was part of NFL Kids’ Day. Read the rest of this entry »
FREEDOM – A Watsonville man in his 40s was stabbed three times early today while leaving a holiday party on Manfre Road, according to authorities.
The man was about to be picked up by a friend outside the house just after midnight when he was jumped by four or five Latino males, Sheriff’s Sgt. Christine Swannack said. The man was stabbed in the back of the neck, the abdomen and arm. He was taken to Watsonville hospital before being flown to an out-of-county Read the rest of this entry »
I wish I had a dollar for every time I have heard a parent who smokes tell me, “But Dr. Spangler, I always smoke in the other room away from my children. Or I go outside.”
Safe? Safe enough?
Most of us are aware that exposure to secondhand smoke is bad for you, which is why these parents avoid smoking around their children.
by Dr. Jonathan Winickoff and his colleagues from the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston underscores the adverse Read the rest of this entry »
Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development Michelle Gildernew and the Deputy President of the Ulster Farmers Union (UFU), Harry Sinclair have lent their support to Action Cancer’s efforts to raise awareness of their services in rural communities.
Attending an event this week organised by Northern Ireland’s leading, local cancer charity, Action Cancer, the Minister and UFU guests were given a tour of the Action Cancer Big Bus mobile screening Read the rest of this entry »
A man who was standing on running board of the crowded cable car and the driver of the Honda sport utility vehicle were transported to the hospital. The extent of their injuries was not immediately known.
Police are investigating the cause of the collision, said Municipal Transportation Agency spokesman Judson True.
The incident occurred just before 5 p.m. on Hyde Street between Beach Street and North Point near Ghirardelli Square.
The cable Read the rest of this entry »
NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev.—Officials say a North Las Vegas day care that was closed after a toddler drowned this week was licensed and passed a July inspection.
The 18-month-old boy who died was identified as Jordan Williams. Investigators say they are looking at how he and 3-year-old boy were able to get into the backyard pool at the house.
The two boys were found about 3:15 p.m. Tuesday in the pool at Marisela’s Family Day Care. The 3-year-old Read the rest of this entry »
One man was critically injured by gunfire and two others were treated for bullet wounds after an argument near Larimer Square moved to a car chase on Interstate 25 Sunday morning.
Denver police said an unknown number of people got into a confrontation near 14th and Larimer streets around 1 a.m. They divided into two groups that got into cars and headed toward northbound I-25.
Around 38th Avenue, someone in one of the cars fired a gun into the Read the rest of this entry »
LOS ANGELES — Cleaner air over the past two decades has added nearly five months to average life expectancy in the U.S., according to a study.
Researchers said it is the first study to show that reducing air pollution translates into longer lives.
Between 1978 and 2001, Americans’ average life span increased almost three years to 77, and as much as 4.8 months of that can be attributed to cleaner air, researchers from Brigham Young University Read the rest of this entry »
RISMEDIA, January 5, 2009-For many Americans, the New Year means a clean slate and a chance to right the wrongs of the previous year. Unfortunately, each year millions of us make some type of fitness related New Year’s resolution
, but only about 20% of those resolutions are actually kept. Smooth Fitness, an online retailer of home fitness equipment, provides some advice to help everyone reach their fitness goals for 2009.
“We see Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON (AP) — New drugs to treat an epidemic of diabetes will have to be screened more closely for heart risks, federal health officials said Wednesday. The Food and Drug Administration’s policy change should offer a greater assurance of safety to doctors and patients. But it will make it more costly and time-consuming for companies to develop drugs that lower blood sugars. Well over 100 such medications are in some stage of development. Read the rest of this entry »