More people are getting on bicycles for exercise and transportation, so it might not be a surprise to hear that deaths have gone up. But a new study points to a factor besides forgetting to wear a helmet — it’s alcohol. A quarter of adult men killed on bikes were intoxicated, the study found.
U.S. poison control centers received more than 17,000 calls — or about one per hour — about children who’d been exposed to chemicals in laundry detergent pods in 2012 and 2013, a new study found.
Americans remain understandably guarded when it comes to Ebola. The confidence in our country’s ability to fight the virus took some hits—a missed communication; two nurses contracting the virus while caring for a dying man; and the returning doctor moving freely around a densely populated city. Our concerns turned to fear in some situations.
Liberian expatriates, longtime Las Vegas churchgoers and service club members, educators and entrepreneurs are among Southern Nevadans who don’t need television images to visualize Ebola’s victims.
