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Becky Cook

Global warming tied to risk of weather extremes - Yahoo! News - 0 views

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    global warming effects on heat wave
Damonte Johnson

News : New study provides guidelines for safe levels of iPod listening - 1 views

  • The study, by researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Children's Hospital in Boston, indicates a typical person can safely listen to an iPod for 4.6 hours per day at 70 percent volume using stock earphones, according to Cory Portnuff, a doctoral researcher in CU-Boulder's speech language and hearing sciences department.
  • The researchers found that listening to music at full volume through an iPod for more than five minutes a day using stock earphones can increase the risk of hearing loss in a typical person
  • Typical individuals can tolerate about two hours a day of a decibel unit known as 91-dBA before risking hearing loss, Portnuff said. The term dBA stands for "A-weighted decibels, a scale that takes into account that the human ear has different sensitivities to different frequency levels,"
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  • Loud sounds can stress and potentially damage delicate hair cells in the inner ear that convert mechanical vibrations, or sound, to electrical signals that the brain interprets as sound. "Over time, the hair cells can become permanently damaged and no longer work
  • No one set of earphones is more dangerous than another," he said. "While isolator style earphones are capable of producing higher levels of sound than earbuds, most people use them at a lower volume than earbuds because they block out background noise. It's important to monitor the level of volume control settings."
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    Website specifically on iPod vollume levels. It was a study done back in 2006 but with the new iPods with louder music it can only get worse.
Lamar Miller

EPA to clean up Carter Carburetor site - St. Louis American: - 0 views

  • The EPA will remove PCBs and TCE from subsurface soils and remove PCBs in two on-site buildings.
  • “This clean-up is absolutely critical because so many children are potentially at- risk across the street at the Herbert Hoover Boys & Girls Club,” said U.S. Rep. Wm. Lacy Clay (D-MO).
  • the agency plans a thermally enhanced extraction of two toxins: trichloroethylene (TCE), a chlorinated industrial solvent, and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), a cancer-causing chemical once used in electrical transformers that were disassembled at a building on the site.
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  • The citizen advocacy group is calling for cleanup goals be expanded to cover all areas impacted by Carter Carburetor, the treatment technology to be proven to work on PCBs on similar sites and at similar concentrations before use at the St. Louis site, the risk assessment scenario expanded to include children of all ages and the cleanup plan protect the health of children and area residents.
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    This article tells about the EPA's plans to clean up the Carter Carburetor site.
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    Plans
David Hoffelmeyer

Study: HIV risks rise with some birth control - 0 views

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    ATLANTA (AP) -- In what's being called the first research of its kind, a study found that HIV-infected women in Africa are more likely to spread the AIDS virus if they use hormone-based birth control.
Toni Stovall

Mosquitoes in St. Louis County test positive for West Nile Virus | KMOV.com St. Louis - 1 views

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    Are you at risk!?
Marquise Middleton

Metal Water Bottles May Leach BPA - Science News - 0 views

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    Metal water bottles may leach BPA The estrogen-mimicking pollutant traces to a polymer resin lining affected bottles Web edition : Monday, July 11th, 2011 Consumers who switched from polycarbonate-plastic water bottles to metal ones in hopes of avoiding the risk that bisphenol A will leach into their beverages aren't necessarily any better off, a new study finds.
Daphne Emrick

Survey: Teens more accepting of out-of-wedlock pregnancy - USATODAY.com - 0 views

  • Among teens in the USA, the percentage who have had sexual i
  • tercourse or say they'd be pleased if they or their partner were to get pregnant hasn't changed much since early in the decade, and there appears to be a growing acceptance of having babies outside marriage, a government report
  • said Wednesday. From 1995 to 2002, "it was pretty much across-the-board improvements in those risk factors," says lead author Joyce Abma, a statistician at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics. "It is a source of concern to see that forward movement kind of stalling
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  • Based on in-person interviews with 1,381 girls and 1,386 boys ages 15 to 19 in 2006-2008, more than four in 10 never-married teens in the USA have had intercourse at least once, Abma and her co-authors estimate. That's a slight drop from 2002, the last time the National Survey of Family Growth was conducted, but it was not statistically significan
Daphne Emrick

STD Facts - Chlamydia - 0 views

  • Chlamydia is the most frequently reported bacterial sexually transmitted disease in the United States. In 2008, 1,210,523 chlamydial infections were reported to CDC from 50 states and the District of Columbia. Under-reporting is substantial because most people with chlamydia are not aware of their infections and do not seek testing. Also, testing is not often done if patients are treated for their symptoms. An estimated 2,291,000 non-institutionalized U.S. civilians ages 14-39 are infected with C. trachomatis  based on the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.  Women are frequently re-infected if their sex partners are not tre
  • Chlamydia is known as a "silent" disease because the majority of infected people have no symptoms. If symptoms do occur, they usually appear within 1 to 3 weeks after exposure.
  • To help prevent the serious consequences of chlamydia, screening at least annually for chlamydia is recommended for all sexually active women age 25 years and younger. An annual screening test also is recommended for older women with risk factors for chlamydia (a new sex partner or multiple sex partners). All pregnant women should have a screening test for chlamydia.
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  • Division of STD Prevention (DSTDP) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention www.cdc.gov/std CDC-INFO Contact Center 1-800-CDC-INFO (1-800-232-4636) Email: cdcinfo@cdc.gov CDC National Prevention Information Network (NPIN)  P.O. Box 6003 Rockville, MD 20849-6003 1-800-458-5231 1-888-282-7681 Fax 1-800-243-7012 TTY E-mail: info@cdcnpin.org
  • American Social Health Association (ASHA)  P.O. Box 13827 Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-3827 1-800-783-987
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    Background info.ThIs is needed.
Korry Busch

Unauthorized modification of iOS has been a major source of instability, disruption of services, and other issues - 0 views

  • As designed by Apple, the iOS ensures that the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch operate reliably. Some customers have not understood the risks of installing software that makes unauthorized modifications to the iOS ("jailbreaking") on their iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.
  • Apple strongly cautions against installing any software that hacks the iOS. It is also important to note that unauthorized modification of the iOS is a violation of the iPhone end-user license agreement and because of this, Apple may deny service for an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch that has installed any unauthorized software.
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