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ATLANTA, May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- This year 28 students in 17 states have won awards in the "Fight the Bite" poster contest, sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the DEET Education Program. Started in 2007, the contest invites fifth- and sixth-grade students to create posters that encourage children and adults to protect against mosquito and tick bites and the diseases they can cause. Downloadable files of the winning posters are at www.fightthebitecontest.org....
Clorox's Dr. Laundry Offers Stain Expertise via Free Stain Hotline and Blog OAKLAND, Calif., May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- From backyard barbeques to block parties to baseball games, messes and spills are just part of summer fun. But if a stain on your favorite top or shorts should threaten to turn your sunny skies stormy, Clorox has the solution - Dr. Laundry's Summer Stain Hotline, 1-877-STAIN-411. With over thirty years of stain-fighting experience, Dr. Laundry (a.k.a. Harold Baker, an...
Almost one in six women in the UK are drinking too much, while young men and children are consuming less than in the past, according to a new study released on Wednesday.In a study commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, researchers from Oxford Brookes University found that the rate of binge-drinking among British women nearly doubled from 1998 to 2006. They noted that 15 percent of women reported binge drinking each week. Men reported a stable 23 percent rate, which is relatively...
New OFF!(R) Clip-On(TM) Mosquito Repellent Helps Protect Outdoor Time in New, Spray-Free Application RACINE, Wis., May 6 /PRNewswire/ -- More women are turning to the outdoors for an everyday oasis from daily stress. According to the recent OFF! (R) Clip-On(TM) Mosquito Repellent Survey(1), nearly nine in ten women say they are likely to spend more time outdoors this year compared to last year, but more than half of women admit they've actually avoided outdoor activities due to the...
Long-term wine consumption is related to cardiovascular mortality and life expectancy independently of moderate alcohol intakeDrinking up to half a glass of wine a day may boost life expectancy by five years"”at least in men"”suggests research published ahead of print in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.The Dutch authors base their findings on a total of 1,373 randomly selected men whose cardiovascular health and life expectancy at age 50 were repeatedly monitored between...
In an odd turn of events, members of the US military are battling a new set of enemies: insects.According to the AP, researchers from the Pentagon's Deployed Warfighter Protection Research Program attended the American Mosquito Control Association convention.The program began in 2004, and spends $5 million each year to discover new weapons to be used against tiny winged foes that threaten American soldiers in other countries."When you're deployed, I would say 90 percent of all soldiers,...
Underage drinking laws reduce fatal accidents, saving an estimated 732 lives per year, U.S. researchers said. James C. Fell of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation in Calverton, Md., said that the study further shows that if every state adopted use and lose laws -- suspending the license of anyone under 21 cited for possession, consumption or attempt to purchase alcohol -- an additional 165 lives would be saved. The researchers analyzed data from 1982-2004, using the Alcohol...
If you love the way coloring your hair makes you look and feel but hate what it does to the environment, get ready for the world's first "green" hair bleach.Japanese scientists say they have developed an environmentally friendly alternative to traditional hair bleaches that comes without the unwanted effects, such as the need for frequent applications and subsequent hair damage and irritation to the scalp and other parts of the body.Each year, millions of people use hair bleach to...
THE WOODLANDS, Texas, March 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Huntsman Performance Products, a division of Huntsman Corporation (NYSE: HUN), today announced the commercial availability of its new specialty carbonate, JEFFSOL(R) Glycerine Carbonate. Manufactured by Huntsman using the glycerine co-product of bio-diesel, JEFFSOL Glycerine Carbonate is a bio-based specialty chemical useful as a reactive intermediate and as a solvent. It can be polymerized or reacted with isocyanates or acrylates...
President Barack Obama's pursuit of energy independence promises to accelerate research and development for alternative energy sources -- solar, wind and geothermal power, biofuels, hydrogen and biomass, to name a few.For the hydrogen economy, one of the roadblocks to success is the hydrogen itself. Hydrogen needs to be purified before it can be used as fuel for fuel cells, but current methods are not very clean or efficient.Northwestern University chemist Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, together...
