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Cervantes March 16, 2010

I contribute to the long-running blog Iraq Today, which used to be Today in Iraq. (We had to move due to a very weird episode involving a psychopath who accidentally was given administrative privileges. It kind of reminded me of an episode in my youth when, due to a psycho housemate, we all had...

Reaction to OSHA testimony on PAWA

Celeste Monforton March 16, 2010 Confined Space @ TPH

The subcommittee on Workforce Protections of the House Education and Labor Committee heard testimony today on the “Protecting America’s Workers Act” (PAWA) (H.R. 2067) from OSHA assistant secretary David Michaels.  In the Obama/Solis’ Administration’s first official...

Nevada Rep. offers bill to improve OSHA State Plan program

Celeste Monforton March 16, 2010 Confined Space @ TPH

Congresswoman Dina Titus (D-NV) introduced the “Ensuring Worker Safety Act” designed to ensure that the federally-(partially)-funded State agencies that run their own OSH programs are at least as effective as federal standards enforcement.  The text of the bill is not yet available on...

WalMartian Chronicles: stupidity on the cheap and cruel

March 16, 2010 Drugs

If there's one thing I have a zero tolerance policy for, it's zero tolerance policies. We see too many incredibly stupid implementations of rigid and mandatory policies (including mandatory sentencing), no matter how reasonable they sound when first advocated, to believe there should ever be...

UCLA (employer) vs Cal-OSHA

Celeste Monforton March 15, 2010 Chemicals Policy

On the heels of Ben Elgin’s Business Week story yesterday about employers failing to comply with rules for reporting worker injuries, it appears large public sector employers have trouble obeying the law as well.  The LA Times is reporting that the University of California Los Angeles...

Pronouncement ex cathedra

Cervantes March 15, 2010

After deep deliberation, I say unto you my Representative Michael Capuano, pass the damn bill.It clears three high hurdles that can get us to a better place from which true goodness can be attained:1) It imposes nationwide regulation on health insurance that incorporates the essential principles of...

Conspiracy theories

Cervantes March 15, 2010

I more or less accidentally acquired a Facebook Friend who spends all day posting links about way-out-there conspiracy theories -- the Illuminati, the controlled demolition of the WTC towers, the FBI killed JFK, etc. She apparently never came across one she didn't believe. Oh yeah, vaccines cause...

The Katrina chronicles: Formaldehyde-laced trailers set to claim another set of victims

Celeste Monforton March 15, 2010 Cancer

by Richard Denison, PhD, cross-posted from EDF Blog The Washington Post ran a front-page article Saturday, written by Spencer Hsu, which reported the auction sale by FEMA of most of the 120,000 notorious formaldehyde-tainted trailers it had purchased five years ago to house the victims of Hurricane...

The headline you didn't see: "Roche-owned Genentech's drug Avastin flunks prostate cancer test"

March 15, 2010 Big Pharma

I've had occasion to remark a number of times how much of what is reported as "science news" is just warmed over press releases from university media departments or company flacks. I read them anyway, often sucked in my a headline that turns out to oversell the case. Now I'm becoming aware...

Albert Einstein: birthday greetings

March 14, 2010 History, Science

Today is Einstein's birthday. If he were still alive he'd be 131. Those of you who have been reading here for a long time know that Einstein was (and is) one of my "culture heroes." When I was a kid I sent him birthday cards (yes, I'm that old) and when he died made a scrap book filled with news...

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Alliances for Global Health Education: Learning from South-South Collaboration

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...

Rheumatology: Improving Primary Care Outcomes Through Diagnosis and Treatment

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...

Biennial Behavioural Research in Cancer Control

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...

World Vaccine Congress Washington 2010

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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AACR

AACR and IASLC

African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC)

American Medical Seminars, Inc.

American Society for Microbiology

American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Amy Hill

Anwarul Hasan Sufi

Australian Disease Management Association (ADMA)

Australian Lactation Consultants' Association

Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth

Bogazici University, the Department of Primary Education

Canadian Society for International Health

Cancer Council

Centre for Excellence in Indigenous Tobacco Control

Chronic Diseases Network

Continuing Education, Inc.

Criterion Conferences

Department of Health, QLD

Elsevier

Emma Huang

Erin Nicholls

European Public Health Association

Eventuate

Family Action Centre, University of Newcastle

Garth Hardie

GHEC: Global Health Education Consortium

Gina Geldenhuys

Health Network Communications

Hepatitis Australia

Infection Prevention Society

Institute for Research on Global Business

Integrated Primary Health Care

International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care (IAPAC)

International Society for Urban Health

International Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics

Jennifer James

Julie Phillips

Leaders in Indigenous Medical Education Network

Melissa Blake

Mid-Atlantic Center for Children's Health & Environment

National Office of the Australasian College of Road Safety

National Vaccine Information Center

Niva

NSW Centre for Road Safety

NSW Rural Allied Health

Ontario Public Health Association

Oulu Psychiatric Epidemiology Society

PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for the Study of Dengue and its Vector

PHAIWA, Cancer Council

Professor Jens Peter Bonde, MD, PhD

Public Health Association Australia (PHAA)

Rachel Swinburn

Rachelle Hogan

Second European Network for Socio-Emotional Competence in Children and Bogazici University

Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care Inc. (SNAICC)

SIVUS

Sociedad Latinoamericana de Micobacterias y Tuberculosis (SLAMTB)

Society for DOHAD

Society for General Microbiology (SGM)

TBA

Terrapinn

The Australian National University

The Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand

The Lancet

The National Institute of Public Health of Mexico

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University of Edinburgh

Vernon Ndlovu

Wessex Institute of Technology

World Cancer Research Fund

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