Penn State Hershey Medical Center

According to the American Academy of Pediatrics Orthopedic Society, children allowed to mow the lawn should be at least 12 years old if operating a push mower or at least 16 if using a ride-on mower. (Photo: Penn State)

Summer Safety

Preventing Lawn Mower Injuries in Children As many as 7,000 children younger than 16 are injured in lawn mower accidents in the United States every year. According to Dr. William Hennrikus of Penn State Hershey Bone and Joint Institute, many injuries are not to mower operators
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Your cell phone is likely dirtier than your toilet seat. (Photo: iStock/Mashable)

Ick!

Are Cellphones Really Covered in Germs? A quick Google search for “mobile device” and “germs” lists pages of reports about how your smart phone is likely dirtier than a toilet seat and how you’d be terrified if you knew all the germs and bacteria it collects in a single da
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Organ Donations

Become an Organ Donor, Save a Life Conversations about death are rarely pleasant, but if you want to be an organ donor then it is a necessary conversation to have with family, rather than leave them with such an important and difficult decision during their time of grief and
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