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Keep your kids properly secured while traveling

Child Passenger Safety Week is celebrated every year to remind parents and other caregivers of the need to keep children of all ages properly restrained in a seat that meets their weight and height requirements.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study finds booster car seats not being used appropriately

While child booster car seat use has increased across the United States, many seats are improperly installed, leading to increased risk of serious injury for their little passengers.

Medicine & Health / Other

created May 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Study urges parents to enforce booster seat use when carpooling

Most parents report that they typically require their child to use a life-saving booster seat, but more than 30 percent said they do not enforce this rule when their child is riding with another driver.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Research shows travel combined with alcohol, weather can be deadly

How have driving patterns during the Thanksgiving holidays changed during recent years? The answer to this question may help you avoid a crash, or at least the congestion that goes with most holiday travel.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Antennas in your clothes? New design could pave the way

(PhysOrg.com) -- The next generation of communications systems could be built with a sewing machine.

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Kids safest in rear-facing car seats until age 2

Children should ride in rear-facing car seats longer, until they are 2 years old instead of 1, according to updated advice from a medical group and a federal agency.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A robot with finger-tip sensitivity

Two arms, three cameras, finger-tip sensitivity and a variety of facial expressions – these are the distinguishing features of the pi4-workerbot. Similar in size to a human being, it can be employed at ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Dec 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

First horned dinosaur from Mexico

A new species of horned dinosaur unearthed in Mexico has larger horns that any other species - up to 4 feet long - and has given scientists fresh insights into the ancient history of western North America, ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 28, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Asian ivory trade poses danger to African elephant

(AP) -- Carefully, the Chinese ivory dealer pulled out an elephant tusk cloaked in bubble wrap and hidden in a bag of flour. Its price: $17,000.

Biology / Ecology

created May 15, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Girl's odyssey shows challenge of fighting obesity

(AP) -- Paris Woods is hardly a poster child for the obesity epidemic. Lining up dripping wet with kids on her swim team, she's a blend of girlish chunkiness and womanly curves.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Ford to put air bags into back seat belts of SUV (w/ Video)

(AP) -- Air bags have long been mounted in the steering wheel, dashboard and sides of vehicles. Now, they're in the seat belts. Ford Motor Co. plans to introduce seat belt-mounted air bags in the back seat ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Sit properly, for slouch can lead to 'ouch'

So what is it now, you medical experts? We need to learn how to sit?

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 21, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1


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