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Cold weather can raise risk for heart attacks

Last updated Monday, January 23, 2012 - 4:55pm

OGDEN -- The dropping thermometer just might drop you to your knees with health problems, experts say, especially when it comes to your ticker.

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With the blade removed and an $89 basket attached, the Snow Bully can be used year-round as a cart. (SHNS photo courtesy Paul Starner/Snow Plow Plus LLC/thesnowbully.com)

New snow shovel has wheels

Kevin Kirkland Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Last updated Monday, January 16, 2012 - 10:10am

When a white winter finally arrived, the wolf was at my door. The Snow Wolf, that is.

Structured Solutions II, the manufacturer of this odd contraption combining a shovel and a large wheel, offered to let me try one in November. There wasn't much need for a snow shovel around here until later.

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Snow removal raises risks for shovelers

Lee Bowman, Scripps Howard News Service

Last updated Wednesday, January 26, 2011 - 12:47pm

When it comes to snow, human nature seems to be either to play in it or move it out of the way. Snow play has plenty of hazards, from slush balls to the perils of downhill slopes -- winter sports are estimated to injure about a half million of us each year.

But that nasty chore of shoveling, scraping or blowing snow and ice is nearly as dangerous to our health and more onerous because it's almost always an involuntary activity.

A study published in mid-January in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine concluded that there were an average of 11,500 snow-shoveling injuries and related medical emergencies each year from 1990 through 2006.

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