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Yesterday OSHA announced a 15-day extension on the due date to submit comments on its proposed changes to the OSHA 300 injury/illness log. In the agency’s Federal Register notice, OSHA says it: “received requests from several entities, including the Chamber of Commerce, National...
Two recent articles (via the Above the Fold newsletter) have encouraging news about the respiratory and climate problems caused by polluting stoves used in much of the developing world. In Environmental Health Perspectives, Tina Adler focuses on a new effort by India’s government, which aims...
I got an e-mail from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services:The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today terminated its contract with Fox Insurance Company. After an onsite review of the plan and its services, CMS determined that the plan’s significant deficiencies – not...
Here. That's what I'm talkin' about.
Why do I think that this will end badly? From the UK: Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...
Exactly one year ago, President Obama issued a memorandum on scientific integrity that gave the Office of Science and Technology Policy 120 days to “develop recommendations for Presidential action designed to guarantee scientific integrity throughout the executive branch” based on six...
By Paul Whaley As a society we could do much better at incorporating environmental health science into clinical advice and policy recommendations. Take formaldehyde: In the early 1980s multiple studies in rats were showing that exposure to formaldehyde increased their chances of developing nasal...
I got your indignation right here. The money shot in this story is that these "pain clinics" employed five physicians who collectively wrote scrips for more than 2 million hits of oxycontin last year, and, oh yeah, were each paid about a million bucks for their "medical services."My indignation in...
I'm not sure I completely understand the legal adage, "bad facts make bad law," but the Supreme Court may be about to give us all an object lesson in its meaning. If I do understand it, is that sometimes there are situations -- "bad facts" -- that are so unusual or so horrifying or both -- that...
In 2008, two tower cranes from the New York Crane and Equipment Co. collapsed in two separate incidents and killed a total of nine people. On March 15, 2008, the crane collapse killed Wayne Bleidner, 51; Brad Cohen, 54; Clifford Canzona, 45; Aaron Stephens, 45; Anthony Mazza, 39; Santino Gallone...
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CUERNAVACA April 9-11, 2010 Community/Public Health & Epidemiology, Environmental & Nutritional Medicine, Medical Education
The conference aims to develop a program which reflects the vibrancy and variety of Global Health programs throughout the region, while highlighting the South-South experience in fostering new collaborative mechanisms, using the lessons learned from...
SARASOTA April 12-16, 2010 Community/Public Health & Epidemiology, Rheumatology, Primary Care/General Practice/Family Medicine
Following this course, the participant should be able to describe the epidemiology and presenting complaints of the commonly seen Rheumatologic disorders; apply a practical approach to the use of laboratory studies and physical exam for developing...
PERTH April 14-16, 2010 Community/Public Health & Epidemiology, Oncology
The Cancer Council Western Australia is proud to be hosting the 10th Biennial Behavioural Research in Cancer Control Conference, to be held from 14-16 April 2010, at the Esplanade Hotel, Fremantle, Western Australia. The conference is supported by...
WASHINGTON, DC April 19-22, 2010 Allergy & Immunology, Community/Public Health & Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases & Microbiology
Now in its 10th year, World Vaccine Congress 2010 remains the industry’s definitive vaccine industry event for major vaccine players and their respective senior level representatives.
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