Category: Weather Issues

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – DALLAS, July 18, 2019 — With much of the nation facing a heat advisory this weekend, the American Heart Association, the world’s leading nonprofit organization focused on heart and brain health for all, is urging people to take precautions to protect their hearts.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Though the skies may be blue and beautiful, it’s never too early to begin preparing for the Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to Nov. 30 and includes the Gulf of Mexico and the Carribean Sea.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – At any time of year, storm preparedness is important. Hurricanes, floods and storms can damage property and endanger lives. The preparations you make ahead of bad weather, however, can help you recover faster and stay safer during the storm and the cleanup.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Dehydration, sunburn, heatstroke, insect bites, rashes, and lacerations – summer can spell health meltdown with a seemingly endless list of unsightly, uncomfortable, and potentially lethal hazards.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – After a harsh winter season, your home’s lawn may look like it has reached its final days with it’s dry brown grass and feeble shrubs or trees.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Even after the flood waters in Nebraska and Iowa recede, multiple and serious dangers from major flooding will remain.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Remember that aunt who claimed her aching joints signaled a storm front on the horizon?

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – The deep freeze gripping much of the U.S. is paralyzing and dangerous. Mayo Clinic emergency medicine experts say the fear of frostbite and hypothermia should be taken seriously.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – The effects of climate change are seen in many different realms of our lives. While some are more prevalent than others, many of these are being recorded and analyzed for future projections.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Like it or not, the cold is coming! If you have to be outside in the elements, you don’t want to be cold do you? Neither do we.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – The cost of heating and cooling the home, and increasing social isolation are significant factors in health risk of older adults during extreme weather, according to a new study by the University of Warwick.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – To warm you through the winter season, you depend on your home’s heating system.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – There are endless winter health myths that we have heard from well intentioned grandparents and parents. They have become so ingrained in us that we take them as cold hard facts.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Philadelphia, — Severe weather events, such as summer hurricanes, tornadoes, and winter snow storms often result in widespread and prolonged power outages, interrupting essential household functions, including home heating.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Areas of the Carolinas remain flooded and are without power. Residents face a long recovery effort after Hurricane Florence moved through these coastal states.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Following big storms like Hurricane Florence, emergency departments see an uptick in people who have injuries related to cleaning up.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – As the seasons move through their annual procession, they are accompanied by the presence of a spectacular diversity of insects. Bees, butterflies, moths – you name it, if you look closely you’ll see them.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – It’s that time of the year, when people walk out of air-conditioned buildings into a “sauna” that fogs glasses and creates instant beads of perspiration on their foreheads.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – How often do we talk about climate change to family, friends or coworkers? Probably next to never if we’re like most people.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – The air in the United States is much cleaner than even a decade ago. But those improvements have come mainly in summer, the season that used to be the poster child for haze-containing particles that cause asthma, lung cancer and other illnesses.