Injuries

Safety First, Yet the Facts Hurt: How Injury Prevention Can Save Lives

Jeffrey Levi | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Public Health, Concussions, Injuries, Healthy Living Health News, Cdc, Public Health Services, Safety Measures, National Prevention Strategy, Injury Prevention, Public Safety, Healthy Living News

If we're going to lower the number of injuries in America, we need to redouble efforts. We need to adopt, implement and enforce evidence-based approaches, and increase public awareness of ways we can all keep ourselves and our families safer.

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7 Common Grilling Injuries And How To Avoid Them

Food Republic | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Knives, Grilling, Barbecue, Injuries, Burns, Slidepollajax, Food, Grilling Safety, Memorial Day Barbecue, Memorial Day BBQ, Food News

Fire? Check. Knives? Check. Copious amounts of alcohol? Check. What could possibly go wrong when grilling outdoors, you ask. Well, now that you mention it -- a hell of a lot.

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The Purple of Penance

Melinda Wentzel | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Easter, Parenting, Lent, Children, Humor, Injuries, Easter Eggs, Parenting Stories, Planet Mom, Parenting Advice, Comedy News

My injured toe is perhaps the most repulsive-looking appendage on the planet. But it's colorful. I'll give it that. Just in time for Easter, it's a feast of pigmentation.

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How Much Do The Top Causes Of Death Cost?

24/7 Wall St. | Baxter B. Allen, MD | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: Cdc, Injuries, Wages, Cause of Death, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Alzheimer's, Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Business News

Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released its estimated causes of death for 2010. The 10 leading causes of death in the...

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Woman Killed In Freak Elevator Accident

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Elevator Fall, 285 Madison, Ny News, Injuries, Elevator, New York News

NEW YORK -- A woman was killed in a freak elevator mishap Wednesday at a Madison Avenue office building, Fire Department officials said. The accide...

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The Plain-Clothed Service Members Among Us

SGT Tanangachi Mfuni | Posted 01.25.2012

There are so many civilians who deploy alongside us, who wear bulletproof vests, sometimes carry weapons and run for cover when the mortars hit, who may never be thanked for their service, simply because they don't wear the same uniform we do.

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How You Can Help Scott Olsen, Iraq War Vet Critically Injured At 'Occupy Oakland'

Posted 12.26.2011

Iraq War veteran Scott Olsen was injured after being hit in the head with a police projectile at Occupy Oakland. Olsen's family is waiting to see i...

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Oakland Police Critically Injure Iraq War Veteran During Occupy Protest

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Cherkis | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: Scott Olsen, California, Scott Olsen Occupy Oakland, Injuries, Violence, Occupy Oakland, Oakland Protest, Oakland Police Department and Occupy Oakland, Police Occupy Oakland, Oakland Riot, Occupy Oakland Ca, Occupy Movement, Tear Gas, Iraq War, Occupy-Wall-Street, Iraq War Veterans, Oakland, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Oakland Protest, Occupy San Francisco, Occupy Oakland Tear Gas, Occupy Sf, Oakland Ca Protests, Oakland Police Department, Video, San Francisco News

WASHINGTON -- The Oakland Police Department fired tear gas on Occupy Oakland demonstrators Tuesday night as they marched through downtown, determined ...

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Old Woman Breaks Leg In Hospital, Staff Tell Her To Call Ambulance

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: Video, Niagara Hospital, Cp, Injuries, Hospital, Old People, Ambulance, Doreen Wallace Ambulance, Doreen Wallace Fall, Doctors Canada, Healthcare, Niagara Hospital Fall, Doreen Wallace, Home News

NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. - A review is underway at a Niagara Falls hospital after an elderly patient fell at the facility and was told to call an ambulance...

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Hips Don't Lie: Countdown to the New York City Marathon

Emily Faherty | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: New York Marathon, Hip Pain, NYC Marathon, Injuries, Marathon, Sports Injury, Running Injury, Distance Running, New York News

I can't remember exactly when my hip started hurting. All I know is that a few days after my 18-mile run and trip to Chicago, I was having trouble walking. Walking -- not running -- just walking.

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Stretching: Your Secret Weapon

Kristin Anderson | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Marriage, Longevity, Sex, Injuries, Dating, Jobs, Stretching, Happiness, Fitness and Exercise, Healthy Living News

Start developing your secret weapon today and in just a few days you will see how stretching becomes one of life's ultimate secret weapons!

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Watch: Man Has Pruning Shears Removed From Eye

The Huffington Post | Mark Hanrahan | Posted 10.30.2011

Read More: Pruning Shears in the Eye, Video, Weird News, Surgery, Injuries, Gardening Injury, Slidepollajax, Pruning Shears, Leroy Luetscher, Weird News News

Most people wouldn't think of gardening as a high-risk activity, but the example of Arizona man Leroy Luetscher might make you think again. Luetsc...

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What I Talk About When I Don't Talk About Running

Janet Turley | Posted 10.22.2011

Read More: Nyc, NYC Marathon, New York City Marathon, Running, Marathon, Injuries, Haruki Murakami, Fitness and Exercise, New York City, Motivational-Success, Healthy Living News

It was sometime when the needle stuck in my metatarsal joint, filling it with cortisone, that I blurted "maybe I should pick another sport."

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The Spider-Man Musical That Did Premiere On Time

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nyc, Spiderman Musical, Daniel Ezralow, Injuries, Broadway, Improv, Julie Taymor, Production, The Spidey Project, Arachna, Spiderman, Slidepollajax, Delays, Arts News

It seems that Spidey is cursed. "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark", the big budget Broadway musical, has been delayed numerous times due to several injur...

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ANOTHER Injury Rocks 'Spider-Man' Musical

AP | By MARK KENNEDY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Natalie Mendoza, Arachne, Spiderman Turn Off the Dark, Injuries, Broadway, Spider-Man, Theater, Julie Taymor, Musicals, Spiderman, NY Around Town, TV Carpio, Arts News

NEW YORK -- Is this the curse of the Spider-Woman? T.V. Carpio stepped in to replace another actress injured in Broadway's troubled "Spider-Man: Tu...

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Illness Is a Family Affiar

Jim Moret | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Rsd, Chronic Illness, Personal Health, Injuries, Crps, Healthy Living News

Watching our child suffer is a unique experience. In some ways it is more exquisite and difficult to deal with than if the pain were in our own bodies. It is horrible.

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Our Child's Pain: A Sleeping Enemy Stirs

Jim Moret | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chronic Pain, Pediatrics, Crps, Injuries, Rsd, Reflexive Sympathetic Dystrophy, Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome, Home News

It's been nearly two years since our son's debilitating and excruciating pain in his left foot was first diagnosed as CRPS, Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome, also known as RSD, Reflexive Sympathetic Dystrophy.

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James Harrison Crosses Line to the Dark Side

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rodney Harrison, Tony Dungy, Concussions, Nfl, Injuries, James Harrison, Sports News

After a particularly brutal weekend of hard hits, everyone is talking about what the league can do to prevent further injuries like concussions. The f...

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If He's on My Team, It's "Gamesmanship"

Ron Kaplan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Yankees, Cheating in Sports, Derek Jeter, Instant Replay, Sports, Baseball, Tampa Bay Rays, Espn, Injuries, Sportsmanship, Alex Rodriguez, Mike and Mike, Sports News

In the seventh inning of the Sept. 15 game between the New York Yankees and Tampa Bay Rays, Derek Jeter hoodwinked the home plate umpire into believing he had been hit by a Chad Qualls pitch.

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World Cup Soccer Players Can Learn a Thing or Two From Method Acting

Lapham's Quarterly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: World Cup 2010, World Cup, Injuries, Method Acting, Soccer, Brazil, Cote D'Ivoire, Sports News

In the last minutes of Sunday's match between Brazil and Côte d'Ivoire, a suspicious incident of playacting went down, earning Brazil's star player, Kaká, a red card and ejection from the game.

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Electronic Medical Record Shift: Signs Of Harm Emerge As Doctors Move From Paper

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Malpractice, Medical Records, Deaths, Cpoe, Injuries, Digital, Hospitals, Aarp, Fda, Health Care, Electronic Medical Records, Paper Records, Politics News

By Fred Schulte and Emma SchwartzHuffington Post Investigative Fund One day in March 2009, hospital workers misread small print on a computer screen,...

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Playing (Too Hard) to Win: The Physical Risks of Teen Sports

Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bones, Football, Injuries, Safety, Boys, Hormones, Teenagers, Athletics, Girls, Growing, Sports, Running, Health, Soccer, Nutrition, Teens, Los Angeles News

The passage of Title IX has made competition in female sports so intense, girls are incurring as many injuries as boys -- and in some sports, more injuries.

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World Cup of Injuries

Barry Yourgrau | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drogba, South Africa, Ferdinand, Robben, World Cup, Injuries, World Cup 2010, Sports News

Modern soccer is simply astonishingly gruelling, and there's so much of it, at such tremendous pace and physicality. By the time World Cup rolls around, most top players are pretty chewed up.

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Surfer Dude Health Hazards -- Just When You Thought It Was Safe To...

Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Skin, Ears, Surfers, Southern California, Health, Injuries, Surfing, Safety, Recreational Sports, Hypothermia, Oceans, Bacteria, Illness, Conditions, Los Angeles News

The waves are likely to get a lot more populated in the coming weeks, and moments of exuberance and bliss along the coastline can be ruined by heath hazard.

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Training Around Injuries

Stacey Nemour | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Visualization, Well-Being, Health, Injuries, Fitness, Weight Loss, Healing, Cross-Training, Healthy Living News

When you are injured you may think it's best to not work-out at all. In many cases that's not the case and to do nothing can slow down the recovery process, cause depression, irritability and weight gain.

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