Lightning safety guidance: seek a building with a roof, walls and a floor as soon as you see lightning, since wiring and plumbing usually carry the charge to ground. Every lightning victim needs a medical exam, and it is safe to touch someone who has been struck.
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Environment
Breaking news: FDA announces sunscreen rules!
EWG Action Fund's Ken Cook thanks supporters for the FDA's new sunscreen rules but calls them incomplete: they bar 'waterproof,' 'sweatproof' and 'sunblock' claims, yet still permit retinyl palmitate and oxybenzone and set a UVA standard so weak nearly any product can claim broad spectrum.
Environment
Shampoo and sunscreen update - EWG newsletter
An EWG newsletter pointing readers to its shampoo ratings, its Flat-Out Risky report on formaldehyde in hair straighteners, and its fifth annual Sunscreen Guide, which analyzed more than 600 beach and sport sunscreens and recommends only one in five.
Environment
Ten Jobs That Will Threaten Your Mental Health
A tongue-in-cheek list of warning signs of a dead-end employer: morale campaigns and slogan caps, cubicle farms, parking lots full at 6:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m., forced pizza parties, passive-aggressive kitchen signs, heavy surveillance, and ads promising a "fast paced environment."
Environment
Never Feed Your Child Using This Because You Want Them to be Healthy
Mercola urges parents to limit what babies absorb, citing CDC detection of BPA in 95 percent of people tested and an EWG finding of 287 toxins on average in infant cord blood. He criticizes formula in plastic bottles, grain cereals and processed toddler food sold in plastic tubs.
Environment
The "Healthful" Drink that Can Damage Your Health
Mercola argues that water fluoridation, carried out in the name of oral health, falls hardest on the low-income and minority communities already suffering the worst dental disease, and that the EPA, CDC, HHS and ADA ignore those differences when calling fluoride levels safe.
Environment
Take action: Sign our sunscreen petition to the FDA
An EWG Action Fund appeal asking readers to sign and share a petition urging the FDA to finish the sunscreen safety rules it began drafting in 1978, ahead of a meeting with the agency. It says four of five sunscreens the group analysed do not do the job.
Environment
UV alerts: What are they?
The National Weather Service and EPA issue UV Alerts when forecast ultraviolet radiation runs unusually high and the risk of overexposure is great. Their SunWise UV Index lets people check the forecast for their own city before planning time outdoors.
Environment
European Leaders Call for Ban of Cell Phones and WiFi in Schools
A Council of Europe committee reviewed evidence that cell phones and wireless internet have potentially harmful effects and ruled they should be banned from schools, warning against repeating the delays over asbestos, tobacco and lead. It also flagged cordless phones and baby monitors.
Agriculture
Administration Releases Long Overdue Pesticide Data (PR)
The USDA published its annual pesticide residue analysis four months late without downplaying the findings, after scientists and more than 50,000 EWG supporters objected to the delay. The data now include a two-page 'What Consumers Should Know' document.
Environment
Fluoride Action Update
City councils in Mount Clemens, Michigan and the Village of Naples, New York voted to stop fluoridating their water. One Mount Clemens commissioner cited fluoride's availability in toothpaste and more than $40,000 in savings. Moncton and Fairbanks vote soon.
Environment
Recreational Water Illnesses: What are they?
Germs in pools, water parks and lakes cause recreational water illnesses. The page points readers to agencies for swimming lessons and public-water information, and warns that bad dives, exhaustion, cramps, waves, tides and currents endanger even strong swimmers.
Environment
Carcigenic chemicals in children's carseats
Testing of 101 common baby products found flame retardants in 80% of polyurethane foam samples, including compounds tied to pentaBDE, phased out years ago, plus two possible carcinogens, TCEP and TDCPP. The authors call for studies of infants' actual exposure.
Environment
Getting PCBs out of schools, Stopping Nukes, and Corpus Christi (PR)
New York City officials found PCBs leaking from light ballasts in schools built before 1979, with one Bushwick school more than 10,000 times above the EPA's 50 ppm removal threshold. CHEJ is pressing the city for a two-year replacement timeline and also reports work against nuclear reactors.
Environment
A trip to the doctor's office may help teens quit smoking
In a retrospective study of 5,154 students published in Pediatrics, teens who had discussed smoking with a physician reported lower intentions to smoke in five years, and those who smoked were likelier to plan and attempt quitting. About 6 million US teens smoke.
Environment
Violence-Related Firearm Deaths Among Residents of Metropolitan Areas and Cities --- United States
CDC tabulated firearm homicides and suicides in the 50 largest US metropolitan areas for 2006-07. Firearm homicide rates in about two-thirds of the metro areas exceeded the national rate, 86 percent of central cities exceeded their metro area, and youth rates outran all-ages rates.
Environment
Drug-resistant MRSA may be spread by bedbugs
Canadian researchers reported in CDC's Emerging Infectious Diseases that they found bed bugs carrying MRSA and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium. The piece notes bedbugs travel in luggage, purses and coats and thrive wherever there are cracks to hide in, regardless of cleanliness.
Agriculture
When to Plant Foods that Fight Cancer
AICR follows its home-gardening feature with a planting calendar covering broccoli, carrots, peas, tomatoes and more, plus a video from its dietitian. The group recommends filling at least two-thirds of the plate with vegetables, fruit, whole grains and beans.
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