Medline Recalls 1.5 Million Adult Bed Rails After 2 Deaths

Federal regulators said that the portable bed rails posed a serious entrapment hazard and a risk of death by asphyxiation. Recalls and Bans of Products, Beds and Bedding, Deaths (Fatalities), Asphyxiation, Choking, and Suffocation, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Medline Industries Inc, United States, Canada, Medline Bed Assist Bar Federal regulators said that the portable bed rails posed…

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Brooke Shields Elected President of Stage Actors’ Union

She takes office immediately. The previous leader of Actors’ Equity, Kate Shindle, had been president since 2015, and did not run again. Shields, Brooke, Actors Equity Assn, Actors and Actresses, Organized Labor, Appointments and Executive Changes, Shindle, Kate, Theater, Theater (Broadway), Theater (Off Broadway) She takes office immediately. The previous leader of Actors’ Equity, Kate Shindle, had…

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Farm Animals Are Hauled All Over the Country. So Are Their Pathogens.

Tens of millions of farm animals cross state lines every year, traveling in cramped, stressful conditions that can facilitate the spread of disease. Disease Rates, Livestock, Chickens, Avian Influenza, Swine Influenza, Law and Legislation, Animal Abuse, Rights and Welfare, Food Contamination and Poisoning, Bacteria, Factory Farming, Meatpacking Plants and Slaughterhouses, Pigs, Antibiotics, Cattle, your-feed-science, your-feed-health, your-feed-animals Tens…

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Taiwan, on China’s Doorstep, Is Dealing With TikTok Its Own Way

The island democracy was early to ban TikTok on government phones, and the ruling party refuses to use it. But a U.S.-style ban is not under consideration. Computers and the Internet, Social Media, Computer Security, Rumors and Misinformation, Politics and Government, Mobile Applications, International Relations, TikTok (ByteDance), Beijing Bytedance Technology Co Ltd, China, Taiwan The island democracy…

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