The settlement terms include the company paying $22,000 -- $12,000 to the individual who filed the complaint and $10,000 as a civil penalty -- and posting "Service Animals Welcome" signs in all of its more than 3,000 retail stores.
Clean Harbors, based in Norwell, Mass., is offering the service to health care providers because multiple doses of the vaccine contain enough mercury-based Thimerosal to be treated as a hazardous waste.
Where do you start your investigation of the causes of occupational dermatitis in your shop? Too often, employees and supervisors jump to the wrong conclusion that the hand cleanser being used is the sole source of the health concern.
NHTSA says what data are available indicate as many as 1,000 ambulance crashes per year involve children, yet there is no uniformity nationwide for how children should be restrained during transport.
OSHA has cited the hospital for an alleged serious violation of OSHA's general duty clause for failing to provide a workplace free from recognized hazards likely to cause death or serious injury to workers, in this case the hazard of employees being injured by violent patients.
"These cost data highlight that water-related diseases pose not only a physical burden to the thousands of people sickened by them each year, but also a substantial burden in health care costs, including direct government payments through Medicare and Medicaid," said Michael Beach of CDC, an author of the study.
Dengue is the most common virus transmitted by mosquitoes in the world. It causes an estimated 50 to 100 million infections and 25,000 deaths each year.
The Mile High Chapter of the American Red Cross launched Save a Life Denver on Monday, offering 1,000 AEDs at low or no cost to high-use businesses and promising to train 10,000 people annually in CPR and AED use.
"We want restaurants and anyone preparing fresh salsa and guacamole at home to be aware that these foods containing raw ingredients should be carefully prepared and refrigerated to help prevent illness," said Magdalena Kendall, an Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) researcher who collaborated on the CDC study.
Shortages and the exorbitantly high cost of labor for risky jobs such as mining, skyscraper construction, and rescue operations, among others, present a perfect opportunity for service robots to replace human personnel, says the report, which estimates a global bot market of $38.42 billion by 2015.
Implementing the preventive measures will reduce the number of Salmonella Enteritidis infections from eggs by nearly 60 percent, FDA says.
The association is now accepting papers for presentations and posters, due July 31 and Sept. 1, respectively. Topics may address basic scientific research, applied research, practical applications of research results, or other findings or concepts that may enhance hearing loss prevention efforts.
The new HHS rules expand consumer protections when third parties handle individually identifiable health information.
Dr. Mickey S. Eisenberg, MD, Ph.D., and co-author Bruce M. Psaty, MD, Ph.D., write in the July 7 issue of JAMA that "a starting assumption is that every patient with witnessed ventricular fibrillation should survive."
The National Association of County & City Health Officials holds its annual meeting next week in Memphis with officials worried about 23,000 jobs lost thus far at local health departments nationwide.
Meanwhile, IAFC has asked its members to answer a survey that will help the association launch a redesigned website next year.
The ranking member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee said he wants to know how $475 million given to medical providers was spent.
The IT/MIS model has more to do with configuration management and much less with the job at hand, with little thought given to people in the field.
According to the World Health Organization, about one person dies of TB every 17 seconds, and the disease continues to be a contagious scourge in both developing and developed countries because each infected person represents a potential yet preventable future outbreak.
The Food and Drug Administration has announced approval of the first rapid blood test for antibodies to the hepatitis C virus (HCV) for individuals aged 15 years and older. The OraQuick HCV Rapid Antibody Test is used to test individuals who are at risk for infection with HCV and people with signs or symptoms of hepatitis.