Free seminars presented by Renewable Fuels Association and Clean Cities Coalitions are taking place around the country this year, including Feb. 10 in the Boston area, to help emergency responders be better prepared.
Third-party violence and harassment affect up to 20 percent of European workers, but most managers have not taken steps to prevent it, the agency said in a new report.
Illicit drugs like marijuana, cocaine and heroin have always been a parent’s nightmare. But perfectly legal and easily accessible prescription medications are now the recreational drugs of choice for many teenagers, prompting physicians at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center to urge pediatricians to screen specifically for their abuse during routine visits.
Roughly 3.4 million emergency department visits--an average of 9,400 a day--were specifically for back problems at U.S. hospitals in 2008, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
The London Fire Brigade signed an agreement last week with the charitable organization Leonard Cheshire Disability to improve the fire safety of disabled people across the city.
The same properties that make engineered nanoparticles attractive for numerous applications--small as a virus, biologically and environmentally stabile, and water-soluble--also cause concern about their long-term impacts on environmental health and safety.
Both associations announced slates of candidates this week.
The March 2 meeting will help applicants prepare new drug applications or abbreviated new drug applications for fludeoxyglucose 18 injection, ammonia N 13 injection, and sodium fluoride F 18 injection.
The supplemental issue of the International Journal of Audiology highlights research that was presented at NHCA's 35th Annual Conference last year.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has posted a Three-Year Plan outlining the topics of possible future competitions for R&D funding under the agency's Technology Innovation Program. The road map proposes competitions in civil infrastructure, manufacturing, energy, health care, water resources, complex networks, and sustainability.
The employee had complained to company management for being required to climb microwave towers, work in manholes, and enter asbestos-filled buildings without safety training or equipment while working at several San Diego military installations.
Proposed changes in design requirements in the airworthiness standards for transport category airplanes are intended to minimize design-related flight crew errors.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission voted 4-1 on Jan. 31, 2011 to extend the stay of enforcement for testing and certification of lead content in children’s products (except for metal components of children’s metal jewelry) until Dec. 31, 2011.
"This type of study can help alleviate exposure concerns for both manufacturer and researcher handling unbound nanoparticles and for the environment wherever nanoscale manufacturing or research is performed," said Randy Ogle, former operations and EH&S manager at Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences and co-author of the study.
New research shows limited school closures are ineffective and only significant, widespread school closures would have real impact on the spread of an epidemic and the strain placed on hospitals' intensive care units.
Motor carriers required to maintain Records of Duty Status for Hours of Service recordkeeping would have to use EOBRs to monitor their drivers’ compliance.
Following a recent recall of potentially contaminated non-sterile alcohol prep pads, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration today reminded health care professionals about the safe use of non-sterile alcohol prep pads to clean and disinfect the surface of the skin.