How to keep your kids safe in pools this summer
Pediatric trauma and injury expert Jen Lau says kids can drown in less than two inches of water. To help prevent any accidents, she recommends getting your child comfortable in the water through swim lessons early in life. Lau also says to buy bright swimsuits and always have an eye on your kid. If something does happen, knowing CPR can be the difference between life or death.
It’s time for camping, grilling, and avoiding mosquitoes
Aside from their nasty bite, the insects can carry diseases like west nile virus. Katie Westby, a disease ecologist at Washington University in Saint Louis, says to treat your clothes with insect repellent if you’re going into an area with lots of mosquitoes. She says deet, an active ingredient in many repellents, is the best option for avoiding the bugs.
New treatments for eye disease may be right around the corner
Age-related macular degeneration affects part of the retina in your eye and blurs your central vision. It’s the leading cause of vision loss in Western countries, but we don’t have any effective treatments. Luckily, new research shows that melanin may be the answer we’ve been searching for. And though melanin becomes less effective as we age, researchers believe they can find a way to stimulate the pigment and stop macular degeneration in its tracks. The research is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Yale University).
Forget about our digital fingerprints, our actual DNA can be found almost anywhere in the world
Aside from some isolated islands and mountaintops, research in the journal, Nature Ecology and Evolution, has found human DNA everywhere – even floating through the air. But scientists are now debating the ethics of collecting personal genetic information from sand or water instead of a blood sample the patient’s consented to (University of Florida).
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