By Katherine Hobson
EPA Guidance: The Environmental Protection Agency is recommending that U.S. schools ditch certain electrical components of light fixtures that may leak PCBs and cause health harm over time, the WSJ reports. The problems are most likely to be found in schools built before 1979, and fixing them could carry a high cost ? an estimated $1 billion for New York City schools, the paper says.
Where?s the Beef Nutritional Info?: Sharp-eyed and nutritionally conscious shoppers know that meat, unlike other foods in the grocery store, doesn?t bear the standardized nutrition labels that other foods have. As the Los Angeles Times reports, that will change starting Jan. 1, 2012 now that the USDA has announced plans to require labels on 40 popular cuts of poultry, pork, beef and lamb. Thanks to a tip from NPR?s Shots Blog, we can point you to the USDA?s ?ground beef calculator? to tide you burger-lovers over until then.
3-D Warning: Nintendo is warning that the 3-D capability of its new 3DS hand-held game machine shouldn?t be used by kids younger than 6, whose eye development may be harmed by extended exposure to the images, the WSJ reports. Nintendo says those younger kids should use the player in 2-D mode and that older users should take breaks from 3-D games every half-hour. The WSJ?s Digits blog wrote recently about the vision problems that prevent some people from experiencing 3-D in all its glory.
First Donor: The donor in the first successful organ transplant has died, the Associated Press reports. Ronald Lee Herrick, who died in Maine at age 79, donated a kidney to his ailing twin brother in 1954. Herrick?s brother lived another eight years and the lead surgeon who performed the transplant later won the Nobel Prize.
Image: iStockphoto
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wsj/health/feed/~3/eIRNYaWR7wE/
No comments:
Post a Comment