1) Install carbon monoxide detectors in your home

2) Have your appliances (boilers, furnaces, stoves, water heater, fireplaces) checked and serviced by a reputable heating company.

Be sure they are equipped with a professional carbon monoxide analyzer.

If they tell you they don't have one, find another company!

3 Do not use unvented appliances (kerosene heaters, barbecue grilles) in house.

4) If you have a garage that is attached to your home click here.

5) Any time you strengthen insulation properties or add a ventilation fan you should have your appliances checked to ensure upgrades have not compromised ability of appliances to safely draft combustion products from house.

By following above guidelines, risk of carbon monoxide poisoning can be significantly reduced.

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Ed Bishop is founder and president of Enhanced Living Inc., a Troy, NY-based design-consulting and contracting company. A pioneer in residential contracting, Ed is a thirty-year industry veteran trained in the “House Is A System” approach to HVAC design. He was formerly a building analyst instructor, providing certification training for New York's Home Performance with ENERGY STAR® program.

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Overall, over 16 million women nationwide lack health insurance coverage and African American women are twice as likely to be uninsured as white women; over 30 percent of African American women live in poverty, and African American women are less likely to get mammograms.

Regardless of socioeconomic factors that may contribute to high death rate for African American women, medical professionals agree that early detection is paramount to surviving breast cancer and they’ve issued a number of recommendations to help African American women detect disease in its earliest stages and improve their chances of survival.

Medical professionals recommend that African American women should:

•Practice monthly breast self-examinations (BSE) starting at age 20. •Have a clinical breast examination, done by their physician, at least once a year. •Have at least one mammogram completed, between ages of 30 and 35. •Have a mammogram completed every one to two years until age of 50. •After 50, African American women should have an annual mammogram.

Breast cancer is a common disease among women of all races in America. This year, more than 200,000 women will develop disease and 40,000 of them will die from it. Though African American women have less incidence of developing disease, once diagnosed, their chances of survival are less than their white sisters.

To increase their chances of surviving breast cancer, African American women need understand risk that breast cancer poses to them and get screened for disease earlier and more often.

For more information about breast cancer and your risk, please contact your physician or visit:

National Breast Cancer Foundation: http://www.nationalbreastcancer.org.