2/12/2018 The heart is really amazing. It pumps oxygen and nutrient-rich blood throughout the body to sustain life. This fist-sized powerhouse beats (expands and contracts) 100,000 times per day, pumping five or six quarts of blood each minute, or about 2,000 gallons per day! Your heartbeat is triggered by electrical Read more…
1/22/2018 It looks like we are in the midst of the Cold Season. Many people have developed some serious conditions such as high fever, congestion, and severe coughing. In many cases, people are not sure if they contracted a flu or just a bad cold. In an earlier SafetyShare I Read more…
1/15/2018 It has been said that the human body is an engineering marvel. And that includes our hands. Yes those appendages located at the distal reaches of our arms for which we use for countless functions such as playing a musical instrument, painting or for performing daily work tasks with Read more…
12/26/2017 Winter weather has arrived in many areas across the country (and some areas have had no signs of winter – sorry to all those that purchased season ski passes!) And that means we are in the midst of Flu Season! The fact is, while flu outbreaks may happen in Read more…
11/6/2017 A few months ago the cover of National Geographic Magazine caught my eye. The feature article was titled, “The Science of Addiction.” The subtitle was “How new discoveries about the brain can help us kick the habit.” While this topic may appear to be a little off the main Read more…
10/23/2017 Last weeks’ topic focused on the history of breast cancer. This weeks’ topic discusses the various risk factors of this disease as well as preventative measures. To begin, breast cancer is a malignant tumor (a collection of cancer cells that have multiplied without control and have the ability to Read more…
10/16/2017 October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month or NBCAM. While it has been tradition for football players and other athletes to have some type of pink article on their uniform during October, for some reason, this year, it has not been the case. I do not know what has Read more…
9/11/2017 First, Texas suffered the devastation of Harvey. And now Irma has come to Florida and is looking just as threatening. But while these storms bring immediate destruction, they will fade; however, another form of devastation is just days away. Due to such traumatic events as the Indian Ocean Earthquake/Tsunami Read more…
6/16/2016 Peroxides: These are chemical compounds that contain an oxygen–oxygen single bond or the double oxygen anion, O2−2. One of the first synthetic peroxides, barium peroxide, was synthesized by Alexander von Humboldt in 1799 as a by-product of his attempts to decompose air. Nineteen years later, Louis Jacques Thénard recognized Read more…
8/7/2017 (Note: This SafetyShare was written prior to the wide use of dust masks used during the Covid-19 Pandemic and is not intended to draw any association to this event) Something that we are seeing more and more these days are people walking on city streets, airports and shopping malls Read more…