News tagged with playground equipment
The Medical Minute: Outdoor injury prevention starts in your backyard
Five major injury hazards to children -- motor vehicles, drowning, burns, falls and poison -- can be found in the backyard during the summer. Riding mowers, inflatable pools, home playground equipment, and even natural vegetation ...
May 12, 2010 |
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London to open 1st exercise area for older people
(AP) -- Swinging London will take on a whole new connotation for the capital's aging baby boomers, who will soon get their own specially designed outdoor playground.
Feb 10, 2010 |
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Keeping children safe: Rethinking design
Injury is the leading cause of death for children over the age of 1 in industrialized countries and improving the safety of the manmade (built) environment will benefit children's health, according to an article in CMAJ (Canad ...
Oct 05, 2009 |
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PhET simulations provide interactive learning tools
(PhysOrg.com) -- What causes a balloon to stick to a sweater? How do microwaves heat coffee? How is electricity generated from a bar magnet?
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Jan 26, 2012 |
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Google replants its garage roots in tech workshops
Amid all the free food and other goodies that come with a job at Google Inc., there's one benefit a lot of employees don't even know about: a cluster of high-tech workshops that have become a tinkerer's paradise.
Apr 26, 2011 |
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The Medical Minute: March is brain injury awareness month
March is National Brain Injury Awareness Month. Traumatic brain injuries are disruptions or changes in the way the brain functions that occur due to a blow or jolt to the head or penetrating injuries. The severity can range ...
Mar 24, 2011 |
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Wyoming is beset by a big-city problem: smog
(AP) -- Wyoming, famous for its crisp mountain air and breathtaking, far-as-the-eye-can-see vistas, is looking a lot like smoggy Los Angeles these days because of a boom in natural gas drilling.
Mar 08, 2011 |
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Giving children the power to be scientists
Children who are taught how to think and act like scientists develop a clearer understanding of the subject, a study has shown.
Mar 02, 2011 |
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A sculpture you can't see: the chemistry behind the art
A University of Sydney professor is at the forefront of cutting edge work creating complex and beautiful molecular structures that, until recently, could only be made at a life-sized scale.
Feb 23, 2011 |
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Fiber-optic communications cable arrives in Cuba
(AP) -- A long-awaited undersea fiber-optic cable linking Cuba with the outside world arrived on the island on Wednesday, promising a bandwidth bonanza for a country saddled with exorbitant telephone rates and among the ...
Feb 09, 2011 |
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New study to use smart phones to track air pollution exposure
University at Buffalo researchers are creating a new and unusual "app" for the smart phone: tracking air pollution.
Feb 08, 2011 |
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The Medical Minute: Staying active all year round
It’s fun to be outside on a beautiful spring, summer, or fall day, riding bikes, playing on a playground, tossing a Frisbee, or just going for a walk with your family. Unfortunately, research has found that the winter ...
Jan 26, 2011 |
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New national study highlights dangers of exertional heat-related injuries
A new study conducted by researchers at the Center for Injury Research and Policy of The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital examined exertional heat-related injuries that were treated in emergency departments ...
Dec 07, 2010 |
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