According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), one person is killed about every 39 minutes in a drunk driving crash, totaling more than 13,000 lives lost each year. Before this coming Labor Day, the NHTSA is sponsoring its annual “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” drunk driving awareness campaign. The national campaign runs[…]

Class will soon be in session. Now is the right time to refresh your memory on some important back to school safety tips! Every year as summer winds down, the National Safety Council (NSC) releases recommendations on how parents and caregivers can best keep kids healthy and safe throughout the school year. We have compiled[…]

Just weeks ago, a 30-year-old bicyclist was fatally struck by an intoxicated driver near Center City. Despite observing traffic laws, like staying in the bike lane and wearing a helmet, the victim sustained deadly injuries in the collision. Only one cyclist has been killed by a motorist this year, but there have been 16 other[…]

It is never a bad idea to have a brief refresher course on how dangerous it is to leave a child in a vehicle, no matter how short the time may be. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), more than 970 children have died from heatstroke, a life-threatening condition that occurs when[…]

When it comes to HPV or the human papillomavirus, we tend to think that women are the main ones affected. We could not be more wrong – in fact, HPV infections have been linked to throat, anal canal, and anal cancers in males and females alike. Luckily, researchers behind a recent study found evidence suggesting[…]