Whether you're heading to the beach or the sunny heights, protect your skin from sun damage and the risk of skin cancer. The American Cancer Association recommends a minimum of SPF 30 to protect against UVA and UVB radiation. UVA contributes to dark patches, lose skin, premature aging, and DNA damage. UVB causes eye problems, sunburn, and also DNA damage; it is the DNA damage that causes skin cancer, the most dangerous of which is melanoma. A total of 3.5 million cases of non-melanoma skin…

Sleepy drivers with less than four hours of sleep are 11 times more likely to experience a car crash than drivers with 7 hours of sleep the night before. Twenty-one percent of all fatal highway crashes involve drowsy drivers. Drowsy driving reduces alertness and attention the same way as being drunk or texting does. Know the signs of drowsy driving. These include lane swerving, falling asleep while stopped in traffic or at a traffic light, sudden braking (when the driver realizes he/she has…

A computer virus is a program that can replicate itself and infect a computer. However, there are other types of harmful computer code to avoid. One is called "rootkit." A rootkit is not a virus; it is "malware." You an unwittingly transfer a rootkit to your computer when you land on an "attack" Web site while surfing the Internet. A rootkit hides inside critical files you can't delete without making your computer become nonfunctional. The rootkit then permits third-party criminals to steal…