For adults who suddenly collapse, CPR is more effective if rescuers focus on chest compression over mouth-to-mouth ventilation. CPR stands for cardiopulmonary resuscitation. It’s used on people whose hearts suddenly stop beating. Using this emergency technique, you can keep a person alive until professional help arrives. Currently, CPR includes two techniques. The first is mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, the so-called breath of life. The other is chest compression: pushing down hard on a victim’s chest, more than once a second, pressing it down at least an inch and a half before releasing. A major reason why bystanders don’t give CPR to people who suddenly collapse is reluctance to put their mouths on the mouth of a stricken person. That reason no longer exists. Now, for adults who suddenly collapse, there’s powerful evidence that chest compression alone is far better than doing nothing. In fact, the new evidence suggests that by interrupting lifesaving chest compressions, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation may do more harm than good. The striking evidence comes from Ken Nagao, M.D., of Surugadai Nihon University Hospital in Tokyo, and colleagues. The researchers took a careful look at what happened to 4,068 adults who had an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest […]
Pete Seeger has one. So do Abby Rockefeller, the Bronx Zoo and Glacier National Park. As of last year, so do I. Mine is a Sun-Mar nonelectric composting toilet. I didn’t want anything to do with it at first. The idea of human waste sitting in one spot - right next to you - for months at a time is difficult to stomach, but I had little choice. Our solar-powered summer cabin has limited running water and soils that are too shallow for a septic system. The Sun-Mar promised no smells and easy installation. Vented by a pipe out the roof, it doesn’t smell at all. And the concept couldn’t be simpler: in goes human waste plus a few wood chips; out comes dry fertilizer. I wish I could tell you I have handled the harmless mulch that’s produced, but we haven’t even had to empty it yet. For homeowners interested in going green, the lowly water closet turns out to be a big player. Americans flush away 4.8 billion gallons of water every day - nearly 40 percent of our total indoor water consumption. Cleaning the sewage stream requires vast amounts of energy and chemicals and […]
ATLANTA — Fewer than a third of U.S. adults eat the amount of fruits and vegetables the government recommends, a trend that has remained steady for more than a decade, health officials said Thursday. That’s ‘well below’ the government’s goal of getting 75 percent of Americans to eat two servings of fruits and having half of the population consume three servings of vegetables each day by 2010, said Dr. Larry Cohen of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The diet survey, part of a federal health survey of every state, is based on responses from 305,000 adults in 2005. It indicates the country is only about halfway toward meeting its healthful- eating goal three years from now. ‘We’re really concerned with the lack of success in meeting these national goals,’ said Cohen, who works in CDC’s nutrition and physical activity division. The rate of fruit and vegetable consumption has remained unchanged since 1994, but health officials said the goal is within reach. ‘We have more work to do over the next few years,’ said spokeswoman Rachel Ciccarone. Specifically, the survey showed that 27 percent of adults ate vegetables three times a day, […]
MOSCOW — Commodities investment guru Jim Rogers stepped into the U.S. subprime fray on Wednesday, predicting a real estate crash that would trigger defaults and spread contagion to emerging markets. ‘You can’t believe how bad it’s going to get before it gets any better,’ the prominent U.S. fund manager told Reuters by telephone from New York. ‘It’s going to be a disaster for many people who don’t have a clue about what happens when a real estate bubble pops. ‘It is going to be a huge mess,’ said Rogers, who has put his $15 million belle epoque mansion on Manhattan’s Upper West Side on the market and is planning to move to Asia. Worries about losses in the U.S. mortgage market have sent stock prices falling in Asia and Europe, with shares in financial services companies falling the most. Some investors fear the problems of lenders who make subprime loans to people with weak credit histories are spreading to mainstream financial firms and will worsen the U.S. housing slowdown. ‘Real estate prices will go down 40-50 percent in bubble areas. There will be massive defaults. This time it’ll be worse because we haven’t had […]
BOCA RATON, Florida — Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said on Thursday there was a risk that rising defaults in subprime mortgage markets could spill over into other economic sectors. Speaking to the Futures Industry Association, Greenspan conceded it was ‘hard to find any such evidence’ about spillover from housing yet, but added: ‘You can’t take 10 percent out of mortgage originations without some impact.’ Greenspan said the downturn in U.S. housing markets appeared to stem more from high housing prices than from a decline in mortgage quality but said he was not downplaying problems in so-called subprime loans. He said that subprime woes were ‘not a small issue’ and seemed to result primarily from buyers coming into lofty housing markets late after big price run-ups that had left them vulnerable to hikes in adjustable mortgage rates. Default rates in the subprime segment of the U.S. mortgage market have jumped in recent months as the housing industry slowed and prices fell. At least 20 lenders in the subprime mortgage sector, which serves borrowers with poor credit histories at high interest rates, have gone out of business as a result. The crisis has triggered […]
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