Rebecca Knier

1 week ago | kktv.com | Heather Graf |Rebecca Knier

(InvestigateTV) — Is the emergency room nearest you prepared to treat children in need of care? A new national study reveals that a majority of emergency rooms across the United States are not fully prepared to care for pediatric patients, raising concerns that thousands of children’s deaths each year may be preventable.

1 week ago | wdbj7.com | Heather Graf |Rebecca Knier

(InvestigateTV) — Many parents tell their kids to “think before they post” to social media accounts. However, is it time for parents to practice what they preach? One survey of U.S. parents found more than 75% posted videos, images or stories of their children on a social media account. An even larger percentage used their children’s real names in those posts. In today’s digital world, it’s been dubbed, sharenting, the act of parents oversharing online content that features their kids.

2 weeks ago | kktv.com | Heather Graf |Rebecca Knier |Shannon Weston

(InvestigateTV) — Is space truly limitless? It is a question that has been debated for centuries and remains one of the great mysteries of science. While the limits of space may be debated, the total amount of debris in orbit near Earth is not. Space exploration and travel by the population of Earth have resulted in millions of pieces of debris, including items like discarded spacecraft bolts and defunct satellites.

1 month ago | actionnews5.com | Shannon Weston |Heather Graf |Rebecca Knier

(InvestigateTV) — Nearly half of all Americans are living with obesity, which is second only to smoking as the leading cause of preventable death in our country. While there’s no magic bullet to reverse this growing trend, experts and patients say they have found something that is working. Medications targeting weight loss like Wegovy and Zepbound are part of a relatively new class of drugs that work by suppressing appetite and food intake.

1 month ago | wlbt.com | Heather Graf |Rebecca Knier

(InvestigateTV) — Tobacco use among U.S. middle and high schoolers recently hit a 25-year low, according to the 2024 National Youth Tobacco Survey. The Centers for Disease Control attributes that decline to a significant drop in the number of students using E-cigarettes, down about half a million from 2023 to 2024. Despite that progress, E-cigarettes remain the most commonly used tobacco product among young people in grades six through 12.