NY mulls indoor tanning rules, other youth laws
Posted on Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
New York is increasing regulation of tanning salons and gyms offering indoor ultraviolet rays even as health advocates push to ban exposure by anyone under 18.
Last year, the World Health Organization classified indoor tanning as [...]
Elderly couple dies while trapped in home elevator
Posted on Sunday, July 18th, 2010
When the elevator in their home got stuck between floors, Sherwood and Caroline Wadsworth found themselves trapped with no way to call for help as temperatures rose into the 90s in the closet-sized lift until [...]
continue readingColorado Plane Crash Probe Focuses Crosswinds
Posted on Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Strong crosswinds are the focus of an investigation into why an airliner with 110 passengers ran off a runway in Denver while trying to take off a year and a half ago.
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Health overhaul may mean longer ER waits, crowding
Posted on Saturday, July 3rd, 2010
Emergency rooms are the only choice for patients who can’t find care elsewhere. They may grow even more crowded under the nation’s new health law.
That may come as a surprise to those who thought getting [...]
Americans are treated, and overtreated, to death
Posted on Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
The doctors finally let Rosaria Vandenberg go home.
For the first time in months, she was able to touch her 2-year-old daughter who had been afraid of the tubes and machines in the hospital. The little [...]
Whiplash Claims Warns on Awareness of Personal Injury Compensation Entitlement
Posted on Saturday, June 26th, 2010
Whiplash-Claims.com, the UK’s leading whiplash injury claims lawyers, is today warning of the need for greater awareness of the dangers of whiplash and related neck injuries in motoring accidents, and especially the ability to claim [...]
continue readingLegal deal for sick 9/11 workers back in NYC court
Posted on Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) - Lawyers for thousands of Sept. 11 responders are back in a New York City court trying to rally support for a deal that would end a seven-year legal fight over the [...]
continue reading$300 mln to cope with Agent Orange in Vietnam
Posted on Saturday, June 19th, 2010
Thirty-five years after the Vietnam War, a $300 million price tag has been placed on the most contentious legacy still tainting U.S.-Vietnam relations: Agent Orange.
A joint panel of U.S. and Vietnamese policymakers, citizens and scientists [...]
Red tape vexes Gulf residents seeking BP payments
Posted on Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
The reefs that David Walter makes for anglers to drop into the Gulf of Mexico are fake, but his frustration as he tries to win compensation from BP for lost income is real.
State regulators stopped [...]
Obama to meet families of 11 killed in Gulf spill
Posted on Saturday, June 12th, 2010
President Barack Obama is meeting Thursday with relatives of the 11 workers killed in the Gulf of Mexico oil rig explosion that set off the worst environmental disaster in the nation’s history.
The family members were [...]