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Chamber of Commerce and their snowstorm excuse

Celeste Monforton March 10, 2010 Confined Space @ TPH

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...

Better Stoves for Better Health

Liz Borkowski March 10, 2010 Environmental Health

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...

Why not do things right in the first place?

Cervantes March 10, 2010

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...

Just check it out . . .

Cervantes March 10, 2010

Here. That's what I'm talkin' about.

Biocontrol in the UK: will they be singing, "Where have all the flowers gone"? (tagline: When will they ever learn)

March 10, 2010 Biology

Why do I think that this will end badly? From the UK: Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...

A Year Later, What’s Happening with the Scientific Integrity Memo?

Liz Borkowski March 9, 2010 Science

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...

Systematising the evidence base: a key strategy for bringing more environmental health science into clinical practice and public health policy

The Pump Handle March 9, 2010 Environmental Health

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...

Indignation?

Cervantes March 9, 2010

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...

Bad facts make bad law

March 9, 2010 Civil Liberties

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...

Occupational Health News Roundup

Liz Borkowski March 8, 2010 Confined Space @ TPH

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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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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Organisations hosting and organising Community/Public Health & Epidemiology events.

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

Tour Hosts Conference & Exhibition Organisers

University of Edinburgh

Vernon Ndlovu

Wessex Institute of Technology

World Cancer Research Fund

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Valerie Sellers Community MemberUnited States