This is one that makes me shake my head everytime I see it. People who are obviously not wrestlers or boxers (trying to make weight before a match) walking in the heat in plastic sauna suits.

I saw a guy wearing…

Every Fourth of July the warnings go out, and every year, people end up in emergency rooms with burns, breaks, ears that can’t hear and eyes that can’t see.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that in 2006, the…

Today, my story about Kevin Hunt drowning two years ago at the Ultramax Triathlon at Innsbrook was published. I tried hard to get some details about Kevin himself into the story, but there just wasn’t room, so I”ll put them here.

I…

Actress and mom Amanda Peet is urging parents to get their children vaccinated. For years now, there’s been some thought that vaccines might cause of Autism and other disorders. Peet says she was bombarded with lots of opinions and information discouraging her from…

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has released some national numbers on cold weather deaths and injuries for 2006, the latest year it can count.
On record:according to AHRQ News and Numbers:
– 6,182 hospitalizations.
– 827 deaths in 2006.
– Men accounted for…

With the cold snap comes the horror stories of seniors being found frozen in their homes, or burned to death when they try to heat their homes with light bulbs and open fires.
It’s time to watch for hypothermia, the lowering of…

Bundle up, people! A study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that the number of cases of hypothermia and other cold-related diseases is higher than estimated, and treatment of it at emergency rooms is costly because it’s resource-intensive. …

Miguel during better times

Oh boy. Friday night, I arrived home to find Miguel, our 9-year-old collie, lying paralyzed and panicked on the second floor of our house. Who knows how long he’d been lying there but his barking was raspy…

Free flu shots will be available Saturday. Barnes-Jewish Hospital will give them away to people 4 and over  from 10 a.m.  TO  2 p.m. at the Parks Chapel AME Church, 608 Holland Avenue in Webster Groves.

Shots will be first come, first…

Two years ago my friend, Zeta Cooper, and I were running on a morning when the temperature had dipped to the single digits — and that’s without the windchill. I’d put on running tights and several layers of shirts. About…