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Technology Advances, But Risks Remain
To live in this day and age is a blessing. Advances in medicine are happening faster than any other time in history. Who would have believed fifty years ago that robots would be performing surgery on humans?To be fair, these robots are not sentient beings....
Fukushima Fallout – Three Years Later
What prevents a nuclear reactor from becoming a nuclear bomb?Heat generated in a nuclear reactor is passed onto water or gas, which runs through turbines. These turbines then create electricity by passing through electrical generators. Around the core ...
The Danger of Baby Powder…Seriously!
We spend our lives worrying about the catastrophic: tornadoes, car crashes, alien abductions, and asteroids hitting Earth. But in the real world there are much more boring things that can be just as dangerous to our individual health. Take baby powder for inst...
Oil Company Tries To Sweep Poison Under America’s Rug
What started in April of 2010 turned into the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. Over an 87 day period, 200 million gallons of crude oil spilled out from the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. The nation watched the leak intently, wa...
Hysterectomy & Myomectomy Patients Are At Risk
The FDA has issued a potentially life saving warning about uterine fibroids that every woman should read.Uterine fibroids are non-cancerous tumors that grow within the wall of the uterus. One study shows that by age 50, more than half of all American women...
Oxycontin Lawsuit
One of America's most famous drugs is in a mess of trouble. And deservedly so.The makers of OxyContin, and other narcotic painkillers, are being sued by the state of California. Five of the largest narcotics manufacturers in the world are being accused of ...
FiveFinger Disagreement Ends In $3.75 Million Penalty
The makers of FiverFingers running shoes, Vibram USA, claim they did nothing wrong. Yet when taken to court, the shoe manufacturer still agreed to pay $3.75 million in penalties.The class action case was started by a disgruntled customer, Valerie Bezedk. A...
The risks of this birth control were concealed
Yaz was pitched as the blockbuster birth control pill with benefits, the choice for women desperate for relief from severe PMS and acne. But now, several new independent studies have found that Yaz carries higher blood clotting risks than other leading birth c...
Is your Honda going to catch fire?
(Reuters) - Honda Motor Co is recalling nearly 900,000 Odyssey minivans that could catch fire, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in a recall notice posted on Friday.In a March 13 filing with NHTSA, Honda said 2005-2010 Odysseys b...
The yearlong Salmonella outbreak
A salmonella outbreak linked to Foster Farms chicken isn't over and has now infected 524 people in 25 states and Puerto Rico, federal health officials said.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in January that the outbreak, which has been...