Coming during Hepatitis Awareness Month and immediately after the agency's first Hepatitis Testing Day on May 19, the goal is to identify more of the people who have the disease but aren’t aware of it.
Three willful violations involve a failure to conduct proper training and provide hepatitis B vaccinations, as well as to have engineering and work practice controls in place to eliminate or minimize exposure to bloodborne pathogens.
The state Department of Health declared it an epidemic a month ago. Reported cases are on pace to hit 3,000 this year, more than triple the total of 965 cases in 2011.
Worldwide, 60-90 percent of school children and nearly 100 percent of adults have dental cavities.
Twenty-one states had significant decreases in central line-associated bloodstream infections between 2009 and 2010, according to the report.
Focused on specific hazards including workplace violence and ergonomics injuries, the three-year emphasis program may allay some of the concerns that OSHA is not sufficiently involved in health care industries.
Research has shown that infection with dengue virus turns on mosquito genes that makes them hungrier and better feeders, and therefore possibly more likely to spread the disease to humans.
National Public Health Week activities are taking place across the country this week. At UAB, teams in a "Wicked Problem" competition are tasked with solving a very real challenge for the local health department.
Physicians are seeing new cases of tick-borne illness several weeks earlier than usual, likely because a mild winter in much of the country made life easier for ticks and their offspring.
“These results indicate that first responders are doing a good job of protecting their patients,” said James Rago, Ph.D., lead study author and assistant professor of biology at Lewis University.
From 2005-2010, 39 outbreaks and 2,348 illnesses were linked to imported food from 15 countries.
Survey data collected with smartphones in this study had fewer errors and were more quickly available for analyses than data collected on paper.
Earlier estimates of 337,000 annual U.S. hospital stays related to C. difficile actually understate its overall impact.
Hundreds of people who have traveled from the Americas to Asia and Africa in the past five years have become infected with the chikungunya virus. While the virus has not spread locally in the Western Hemisphere, experts say there is a clear risk of its introduction into local mosquito populations.
"International cooperation is a critical part of improving the safety and health of all workers," said NIOSH Director John Howard, M.D.
Health professionals need to help raise awareness about the health risks of using an unclean cell phone.
It is presently susceptible to methicillin but could acquire genes making it resistant, and it transmits efficiently from person to person.
What's really interesting right now is which side OSHA is fighting on.
Needlestick injury rates from 2001 to 2005 were well below pre-Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act rates, according to the study.
These cases are becoming more difficult to treat in some countries where medicines may not always be available, according to the public health agency.