Hand Surgeons Urge Parents to Review Hand Safety Tips Before Carving Pumpkins this Halloween

Local Hand Surgeons Available for Interviews in Your Market, Photos Also Provided For Download on Hand Society Website ROSEMONT, Ill., Oct. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Families will visit pumpkin patches this month and then take pumpkins home to carve them into jack-o-lanterns. While pumpk...

Latest Trick-or-Treats Give You Something Good to Eat

...uced-fat, sugar-free and fortified products. This Halloween, trick-or-treaters can expect to see dozens of these "better for you" treats filling their pumpkins and pillowcases. A recent survey of leading candy manufacturers revealed the following health-minded Halloween treats for 2008: Hershey(R)'s Snackst...

Holiday Hand Safety 101: Hand Surgeons Offer Tips for a Safe Carving Season

...Every year during Thanksgiving, and throughout the holiday season, people sustain hand injuries while preparing their holiday feast. From cutting open pumpkins to carving the mouthwatering centerpiece, hand injuries are all too common. Fortunately, these injuries are avoidable. According to Reid Abrams, MD,...

Photo: New York Goes Orange for Pumpkin Festival and Lupus Awareness Month

...t-ever Pumpkin Festival in Central Park, presented by Camp Sunshine and the City of New York Department of Parks & Recreation. More than 30,000 carved pumpkins lined the park's paths, while the Foundation distributed nearly 10,000 orange lupus awareness wristbands saluting Lupus Awareness Month. (Photo: ht...

A Happy Halloween Means Safety First

...ore-bought costumes are made of flame-resistant material. But homemade costumes aren't necessarily flame-proof, so special care should be taken around pumpkins lit with candles. And stay away from sharp objects -- any make-believe swords, pitchforks, knives and the like should be made of soft material. Th...

Safety Tips for a Fun and Spooky Halloween

...ick-or-treat bags. -- Consider having each child carry an ID card or bracelet that includes their address and home telephone number. -- Position pumpkins and candles away from traffic on walkways and steps. -- Motorists should stay alert and observant for children running into the street. About Un...

Pumpkins in Biological News

Skewered pumpkins

This release is available in German . We encounter valves every day, whether in the water faucet, the carburetor in our car, or our bicycle tire tube. Valves are also present in the world of nanotechnology. A team of researchers headed by J. Fraser Stoddart and Jeffrey I. Zink at the U...

Pest management specialist Charles Summers wins prestigious Woodworth Award

...colonization and the incidence of aphid-borne virus diseases," Summers said. "The data shows that marketable yields with summer squash, cucumber, and pumpkins grown over reflective mulch are higher than those in plants grown over bare soil, both with and without insecticide. We also determined that the use o...

A win-win: U-pick pumpkin farms recycle urban leaves

...d "u-pick" pumpkin farms has resulted in an increase in consumer demand for pumpkins throughout the country. A critical challenge for pumpkin farmers promoting ...mpkin operations, farmers are constantly seeking ways to produce marketable pumpkins while maintaining u-pick fields that are enticing for consumers, even durin...

UD researchers show that plants can accumulate nanoparticles in tissues

...isciplinary research by the scientific community." The researchers chose pumpkins for the study, Jin said, because they take in a lot of water and are easy t...ts have varied responses to nanosized particles. Additionally, while the pumpkins were studied primarily in aqueous media, the researchers also tested the pl...

Introducing 'Orange Bulldog'

...he study published in the October 2007 issue of HortScience, explained that pumpkins have not been readily available in southern states because conventional pumpkins are highly susceptible to viruses and often die before they produce fruit. ...

Pumpkins in Biological Dictionary

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Biology

...n, and distribution Biology Group Members: Dan Duggins , Francis Mark , Cornbread Compton , Josh Newton Similar Artists: Quicksand , The Smashing pumpkins Influenced By: Synthetic biology is a new area of biological research that combines science and ... Up to now we are working on the descriptive p...