ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Retired professional mechanical engineer Mike Higgins, 75, recently sent the city of St. Petersburg a letter with ideas on how to redesign backflow preventers to make them more ...

Although constipation and diarrhea may seem like opposite problems, they both hinge on the same underlying issue: how much fluid moves into the gut. These common issues affect millions of people in ...

The Nashville Town Council unanimously approved a resolution Wednesday calling for water users in the town to be reimbursed for installing backflow prevention valves in their waterlines in 2024 and ...

The Nashville Town Council is scheduled to discuss Wednesday whether to reimburse business owners and residents who, at the direction of the town’s staff, needlessly had backflow prevention valves ...

SAN FRANCISCO — In two forms of severe mitral valve disease with high rates of mortality and limited treatment options, multicenter trials with novel transcatheter devices produced what experts ...

Homeowners are advised to drain their sprinkler systems to prevent significant freeze damage to pipes and valves. The article provides instructions for both a quick drain and a full blowout of a ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—At least 10 million older people—nearly two-thirds of them women—in the United States have mild or greater valvular heart disease (VHD), according to the investigator-initiated ...

For decades, Linda Lopes, 77, lived an energetic lifestyle, having spent 40 years of her life working on her family’s dairy farm. “I was pretty active, doing things like mowing my own lawn and ...