Asthma Awareness Month Study: Nearly all patients make mistakes with inhalers
One half second is the difference between getting your whole inhaled dose of asthma medicine and just getting 20 percent, a new study has found. The study…
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Rick Good spent ten years in the newspaper business, including with The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) and The Greenville News (Greenville, SC). He co-wrote, with Melinda Coleman, Rutledge to Riley: Governors of South Carolina, 1776–Present (Published by The Greenville News), and is the author of Mind Games Trivia #1 (Amazon). He has recently spent 15 years creating original trivia content through Sounds Good Mobile Entertainment and continues that with his new company, SGME Software. He edits The Smart Reader's money, real estate, and business coverage.
Asthma Awareness Month. Proper way to use an inhaler
Fewer than half of people who use a metered dose inhaler for asthma do so correctly, according to the Mayo Clinic Health Letter. Here is how to use an…
(Third recipe) Very low-carb meringue cookies
Very low-carb meringue cookies 4 egg whites, room temperature 6 tablespoons powdered erythritol sweetener (Brand name: Swerve) 1/2 teaspoon vanilla…
Three recipes to use-up home-grown chicken eggs
If you keep chickens, you’ll end up with an abundance of eggs. You’ll quickly learn recipes to use them up. In these two recipes, we use yolks and whites…
Keeping chickens: A reliable source of food
Keeping chickens is back in style and if you want to be part of the new, old-school trend, here’s how to start. First, decide how many chickens you need….
Electrical work fatalities decline; Construction still most dangerous
Electrical work fatalities improve; Construction still most dangerous Construction work continues to be the most dangerous trade for fatal electrical…
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Hurricane Preparedness Week, May 7-13, 2017 The time to prepare for a hurricane is now There will be trouble. Expect it. Prepare for it. According to…
Student loan debt interest deductions
According to Marketwatch, student loan debt reached a total of $1.2 trillion dollars in 2016. That is trillion with a “T.” The average per student from…
What qualifies as nontaxable income?
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) likes to cast a wide net, as they say, when it comes to which sources of income are considered taxable. According to…
Credit report late payments
Everyone misses a payment at one point or another. Maybe the debit card on file expired, or the bill was sent to the wrong address. Whatever the reason,…