Health
There was a time when people may have had better results using an ear trumpet than a hearing aid. But those days are gone, says Brent Edwards, vice president for research at Starkey Labs. “Barriers to using hearing aids have gotten much better,” Edwards says.
As Andrew Linn sat on a gurney with 4 inches to 6 inches of pole sticking out of his mouth and neck — the 2-inch-diameter metal had been driven through his mouth and out through his neck in a Las Vegas auto accident, he took out his phone and began to text his wife about what had happened.
Have you ever slept wrong and woken up with a kink in your neck? The muscle that’s kinked is part of your trapezius. The more you know about your traps, the less of a pain in the neck they will be.
The label didn’t say “Please finish all this medication,” and you didn’t, so now you have a few pills left, and wonder about the best way to get rid of them. To flush or not to flush? To trash or not to trash? Neither, if you care about the safety of the water supply and the problem of drug abuse.
“You can never give up on anybody,” says paramedic John Osborn. “You never know who’s going to make it.”
He’ll never forget one who did –a woman who was ejected from her car yet survived when it rolled over her.
Osborn found her walking around in shock. There was a perfect imprint of her body in a farmer’s freshly plowed pasture.