How To Keep Your Humidifier Clean (And The Scary Repercussions If You Don’t)
MICROGEN IMAGES/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via Getty Images Not regularly maintaing your home’s humifidifer can cause more harm than good. Humidifiers can be beneficial for your health, especially when you’re sick or dealing with dryness in your home. But if you don’t regularly maintain them, they can cause more harm than good. “If you don’t properly […]
Lead Exposure from Wyoming Homes Can Harm Children – Wyoming Department of Health
Lead Exposure from Wyoming Homes Can Harm Children October 18, 2023 Lead found in many Wyoming homes is putting children at risk of damage from lead poisoning, according to the Wyoming Department of Health (WDH). “The harms children can experience from lead exposure are very real and quite serious. There is no safe blood lead […]
Lead Exposure from Wyoming Homes Can Harm Children – Wyoming Department of Health
Lead Exposure from Wyoming Homes Can Harm Children October 18, 2023 Lead found in many Wyoming homes is putting children at risk of damage from lead poisoning, according to the Wyoming Department of Health (WDH). “The harms children can experience from lead exposure are very real and quite serious. There is no safe blood lead […]
You Probably Should Change Your Home’s HVAC Filter Right Now
Changing the filter for your home’s heating, ventilation and air conditioning system, or HVAC, is one of those tasks you probably forget to do as often as you should. Some people may even be unaware that they have an HVAC filter that needs to be changed. And it’s a really important item to swap out. […]
Opinion | ‘Sit Down, Shut Up and Sign, Don’t Make Waves’: What We Heard This Week
“Some nursing homes and chains will hire medical directors to just do what I call the three S’s: Sit down. Shut up and sign. Don’t make waves.” — Karl Steinberg, MD, immediate past president of the Society for Post-Acute and Long Term Care Medicine, on a proposed bill requiring all 15,000 Medicare-approved nursing homes to […]
Watercooler parts could be a source of organophosphate ester exposure
Watercoolers have become a staple in homes, offices and schools, but their tanks and parts are made of materials that could release unwanted or potentially harmful compounds into drinking water. In a preliminary study, researchers in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology Letters report that organophosphate esters (OPEs) were found in water dispensed from these systems, […]
COVID-19 Lockdown in Uganda Increased Gender-Based Violence
Women and young girls confined to their homes during the COVID-19 lockdowns experienced increases in sexual violence and exposure to HIV, researchers in Uganda reported. At a press conference at the virtual International AIDS Society (IAS) Conference on HIV Science, Rose Apondi, MPH, an HIV-prevention specialist with the CDC in Kampala, Uganda, said that when […]