• Staying Independent in Old Age, With a Little Help0

    As people live longer, dilemmas about living arrangements for the elderly are becoming increasingly common. Money is often an issue, along with the desire to remain independent. Many older people living independently need outside help long before they require round-the-clock care, and a range of assistance and housing alternatives has rapidly sprung up to meet

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  • Smarter Ways to Discipline Children0

    Techniques that psychologists often use effectively with the most difficult kids, including children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and oppositional defiant disorder, can work well on typical kids, too. Approaches, with names like "parent management training" and "parent-child interaction therapy," are backed up by hundreds of research studies, but their tactics remain little known among

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  • Food labels sometimes wrong, cause allergic reaction0

    The Food and Drug Administration and manufacturers have issued 20 recalls in the last 60 days for undeclared allergens in food products, including Chicken of the Sea tuna, which had undeclared soy; two kinds of Wegmans brownie mix with undeclared milk; and two kinds of ice cream with undeclared pecans, according to FDA records. An ABC

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  • Ladder Safety: Don’t Get Decked While Decking the Halls0

    It's not rare for homeowners to fall when attempting to hang holiday lights and decorate their home. Falls off ladders, roofs or pieces of furniture not meant to support weight sent more than 13,000 people to the emergency room at the end of 2010. Half were hospitalized. The Consumer Product Safety Commission has developed ladder

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  • Camry, Prius earn poor crash test ratings0

    Tests involving the front corner panel of the Toyota Prius and Toyota Camry conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety earned both cars a poor rating. NBC Nightly News, 12/21/2012

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  • Kitchen calamity: Reports of shattering cookware on the rise0

    Reports of glassware abruptly shattering have climbed sharply in recent years, and a controversy is heating up over whether the pans or the users are to blame. TODAY Health, 12/21/2012

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