FDA announced Nov. 22 that it has approved the first adjuvanted pandemic influenza vaccine, Q-pan, manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline to protect against H5N1 influenza.
The Department of Justice announced Nov. 22 that Duke Energy Renewables Inc. pleaded guilty to violating the federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act for birds killed at its wind projects in Wyoming.
The Empire State Consumer Project has found a number of hazards for young children in talking greeting cards, balloons and playpens.
Winter driving hazards, electrical safety issues, slips, falls, and more for the holiday season.
Several Aldi stores in Milwaukee have pulled their grapes due to the presence of a live black widow spider.
The company allegedly failed to correct workplace health and safety hazards cited from previous OSHA inspections.
U.S. poison control center officials express concern over the use of the capsules in households with young children.
The federal agency's technical investigation following the May 2011 EF5 tornado that struck Joplin, Mo., has taken two years to complete and is the first to scientifically assess the impact of a tornado in four major categories.
Off-duty officers participating in the National Roadside Survey of Alcohol and Drug Use by Drivers confused and frustrated drivers when asking for samples to detect alcohol use.
Researchers will try to correlate head injuries with later health problems through the two-year, $2.4 million study.
The agency's final rule will affect new over-the-road buses and large buses weighing more than 26,000 pounds. Most fatal crashes of such buses are rollovers, and occupant ejections account for 66 percent of the deaths in those crashes, according to the rule.
OSHA proposed $121,720 in fines for alleged safety hazards at the company's Buffalo, N.Y., production plant.
Following several reported fires with the vehicle, the agency reportedly will be investigating the safety of the car.
As long as the federal government has no viable alternative to Yucca Mountain for storing nuclear waste, power plant operators should not be charged annual fees for the cost of that disposal, the judges ruled.
The U.S. Senate has approved H.R. 3204, a bill introduced by U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton, R-Mo., meant to improve oversight on compounding pharmacies.